The “comics medium” includes newspaper comic strips such as Dennis the Menace and comic books such as Spider-Man. Scholars around the world agree that comics are a uniquely American art form.
The first commercially successful comic strip was Hogan’s Alley, a comic strip from the 1890s. Hogan’s Alley featured the Yellow Kid, the world’s first popular cartoon character. This strip and its character marked the beginning of comics and was American in every respect. Set in a low-income neighborhood in New York City, Hogan’s Alley dealt with the lives of ordinary Americans. It was written and drawn by American cartoonist R.F. Outcault. Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, two famous and influential American publishers, printed the comic strip in their newspapers.
The first popular comic book in the world was also American. Action Comics, a series that is still in print today, was initially released in 1938. It featured Superman, the world’s first superhero. Like Hogan’s Alley, Superman was American-created.
Americans invented comic strips, and Americans have exported their unique art form to the rest of the world. Japanese comics, called manga, were inspired by the comics that Americans brought to Japan after World War II. Popular European comics series such as Smurfs and Asterix are influenced by Disney comic books. Today, American-created Disney comic characters are more popular in Europe than ever.
The comics medium started in America. While it has spread around the world, even comics that aren’t created by Americans have an undeniable American influence. This is why so many art and literature scholars recognize the comic strip as a truly American art form.
The speaker in the lecture contradicts several points that were mentioned in the essay. The backbone of the essay states that Scholars around the world agree that comics are uniquely American. But in the lecture, this statement is contradicted when the speaker says that only at one point of time did the Scholars believed so and as studies prospered, it came to be known that comics are not uniquely American.
According to the speaker, there is also a factual error in the passage. The speaker mentions that Hogan's Alley is not actually the first successful comic strip and that many other popular comics flourished through Europian countries like Britain and Switzerland during the 1790s and one another notable fact is also that its publisher is an immigrant to America. The author of the essay states that the first popular comic book, initially released in 1938 was Action Comics and it featured the first action hero Superman. But factually, The comic, Adventures of Tintin came out in Belgium 16 years earlier as according to the speaker in the lecture.
The lecturer also mentions various examples such as the Disney Characters, although they were American, it was written by European writers and that the Japanese Manga was influenced by the Asian culture. Combining all these facts together the speaker concludes by saying that the Comics medium is not uniquely American and that it belongs to the whole world.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 315, Rule ID: DID_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean 'believe'?
Suggestion: believe
...y at one point of time did the Scholars believed so and as studies prospered, it came to...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 607, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[3]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...in came out in Belgium 16 years earlier as according to the speaker in the lecture...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, so, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1192.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 236.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05084745763 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91947592106 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48208172214 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.572033898305 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 369.9 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 66.1811953449 49.2860985944 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.444444444 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2222222222 21.698381199 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.33333333333 7.06452816374 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.304768980615 0.272083759551 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123935241385 0.0996497079465 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0915960863309 0.0662205650399 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195880471731 0.162205337803 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0279620007905 0.0443174109184 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.3589403974 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 53.8541721854 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.61 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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