Essay topics: TPO-08 - Integrated Writing Task
Toward the end of his life, the Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798) wrote a long memoir recounting his life and adventures. The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure, but since he met many famous people, including kings and writers, his memoir has become a valuable historical source about European society in the eighteenth century. However, some critics have raised doubts about the accuracy of the memoir. They claim that the Chevalier distorted or invented many events in the memoir to make his life seem more exciting and glamorous than it really was.
For example, in his memoir the Chevalier claims that while living in Switzerland, he was very wealthy, and it is known that he spent a great deal of money there on parties and gambling. However, evidence has recently surfaced that the Chevalier borrowed considerable sums of money from a Swiss merchant. Critics thus argue that if the Chevalier had really been very rich, he would not have needed to borrow money.
Critics are also skeptical about the accuracy of the conversations that the Chevalier records in the memoir between himself and the famous writer Voltaire. No one doubts that the Chevalier and Voltaire met and conversed. However, critics complain that the memoir cannot possibly capture these conversations accurately, because it was written many years after the conversations occurred. Critics point out that it is impossible to remember exact phrases from extended conversations held many years earlier.
Critics have also questioned the memoir's account of the Chevalier's escape from a notorious prison in Venice, Italy. He claims to have escaped the Venetian prison by using a piece of metal to make a hole in the ceiling and climbing through the roof. Critics claim that while such a daring escape makes for enjoyable reading, it is more likely that the Chevaliers jailers were bribed to free him. They point out that the Chevalier had a number of politically well-connected friends in Venice who could have offered a bribe.
The reading passage suggests that many critics do not believe the memoir that was written by a famous person Chevalier de Seingalt although the memoir was an important source of history in Europe. On the other hand, the lecturer claims that the memoir was most accurate and reliable by providing much support on this.
The professor claims that Chevalier has debt in Swiss merchant bank that does not mean he was poor. She puts forth that it might happen that Chevalier sold his wealth and spent all the cash money for enjoying parties and gambling. Again he required more money for that purposes that put him in debt.
Second, the professor suggests that there was strong evidence that Chevalier used to take note on a regular basis that means every night. So there is little chance to forget all the phrases in the conversation that the critics mentioned in the passage.
In the last, the professor also strongly support Chevalier memoir by raising a question that, if Chevalier provides bribe to the jailer to escape him, then why are other strong prisoners than Chevalier could not escape from the jail? Again she adds to her argument, the government has to repair the ceiling that clearly illustrates he actually escaped from the jail by climbing through the roof.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, if, second, so, then, as to, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1062.0 1373.03311258 77% => OK
No of words: 217.0 270.72406181 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89400921659 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8380880478 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30942253311 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.603686635945 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 310.5 419.366225166 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.4640864883 49.2860985944 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.0 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1111111111 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.88888888889 7.06452816374 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.420545658575 0.272083759551 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.150184650097 0.0996497079465 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0736563451603 0.0662205650399 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.224474610954 0.162205337803 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0513575205879 0.0443174109184 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 53.8541721854 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 41.0 63.6247240618 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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