discovery of the Americas and the chinese expedition
<p style="white-space: normal;">The reading passage argues that a chinese fleet landed on the Americas around the year 1421 before Columbus' epic voyage. However, the speaker in the lecture casts doubt on the claims made in the article. He asserts that the ideas in the passage are utterly false and without any merit.</p><p style="white-space: normal;">To begin with, the author cites evidence from an underwater structure that resembles a road or a dock with a chinese pattern. In addition, the stones seem to have been arranged on purpose. Nevertheless, the lecturer offsets this argument by declaring that this road-like structure is a natural limestone formation. Moreover, a geologist has clarified that the breaks and cracks in the beach rock made it look as if it was intentionally designed. The lecturer further elaborates that other similar rocks have been discovered in the Bahamas.</p><p style="white-space: normal;">Secondly, the writer mentions that the stone anchors with holes in the middle unearthed at Palos verdes in California have a unique pattern only used by the chinese and these anchors could have been made by the visiting fleet. In contrast, the lecturer holds that these anchors are a hundred years old only and this refutes the conviction that they were built in the fifteenth century. The more plausible explanation is that they were made by chinese fishermen who came to the state as immigrants and made the anchors the same way their ancestors did.</p><p style="white-space: normal;">Lastly, the excerpt contends that the Newport tower in Rode Island is in the shape of a chinese lighthouse and carbon dating has confirmed that it dates to the fifteenth century, which could lend some support for a chinese expedition before Columbus. The lecturer, on the other hand, brings up the fact that it actually looks like an English windmill and points out that it was possibly owned by the Arnold family. Furthermore, the dating methods, according to the professor, concluded that it is from the seventeenth century.</p>
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, furthermore, however, if, lastly, look, moreover, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, in addition, in contrast, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1761.0 1373.03311258 128% => OK
No of words: 325.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.41846153846 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.71983838804 2.5805825403 144% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 145.348785872 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578461538462 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 539.1 419.366225166 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 117.521582333 49.2860985944 238% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 160.090909091 110.228320801 145% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.5454545455 21.698381199 136% => OK
Discourse Markers: 14.0 7.06452816374 198% => OK
Paragraphs: 1.0 4.09492273731 24% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.117182035279 0.272083759551 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0330633842199 0.0996497079465 33% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0532025284994 0.0662205650399 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117182035279 0.162205337803 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.9 13.3589403974 141% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.58 53.8541721854 62% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 11.0289183223 143% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.75 12.2367328918 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.64 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 63.6247240618 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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