Essay topics: TPO-12 - Integrated Writing Task
Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the most famous of all English novelists, and today her novels are more popular than ever, with several recently adapted as Hollywood movies. But we do not have many records of what she looked like. For a long time, the only accepted image of Austen was an amateur sketch of an adult Austen made by her sister Cassandra. However recently a professionally painted, full-length portrait of a teenage girl owned by a member of the Austen family has come up for sale. Although the professional painting is not titled Jane Austen, there are good reasons to believe she is the subject.
First, in 1882, several decades after Austen's death, Austen's family gave permission to use the portrait as an illustration in an edition of her letters. Austen's family clearly recognized it as a portrait of the author. So, for over a century now, the Austen family itself has endorsed the claim that the girl in the portrait is Jane Austen.
Second, the face in the portrait clearly resembles the one in Cassandra's sketch, which we know depicts Austen. Though somewhat amateurish, the sketch communicates definite details about Austen's face. Even though the Cassandra sketch is of an adult Jane Austen, the features are still similar to those of the teenage girl in the painting. The eyebrows, nose, mouth, and overall shape of the face are very much like those in the full-length portrait.
Third, although the painting is unsigned and undated, there is evidence that it was painted when Austen was a teenager. The style links it to Ozias Humphrey, a society portrait painter who was the kind of professional the wealthy Austen family would hire. Humphrey was active in the late 1780s and early 1790s, exactly the period when Jane Austen was the age of the girl in the painting.
The paragraph told, in spite of a famous English novelist and having several adaptations of Hollywood movies, it was not well known how Jane Austen looks like. The only accepted image was painted by her sister Cassandra, which was a painting of a teenage girl and the author claims that this painting is an actual portrait of Jane Austen. He gave various reasons to bolster his theory.
First of all, the author claims that after Austen's death her family gave permission to use the portrait as an illustration. Austen family clearly recognizes the portrait and her family, over a century endorse the claim. The speaker opposes the idea by saying, this is really unconvincing that the portrait was Jane Austen. It was loosely connected to her family and the painting was hardly the teenage version of Jane Austen. Because when the picture was authorized by the family Austen was dead for seventy years and actually her family never seen her portrait before her death.
In another claim, the author told that another sketch was drawn by Cassandra clearly resembles Austen's face. Even though the sketch was of adult Austen but the features are similar to Austen's teenage version. The speaker counters by saying, Austen's family is large and the sketch was not Austen’s, instead, the sketch was of Jane Austen's distant niece. And, in fact, that was the main purpose of the sketch.
The third claim author represents, in another painting, even though the painting was unsigned but from the ink style, it could be inferred that the painting done by Ozias Humphrey, who often hired by Austen family. Humphrey was active when Jane Austen was the age of the girl in the painting. The speaker opposed the idea by saying, William Leg, who sold the canvas was not active in the era of Jane Austen's teenage age. Thus, the painting must be painted for an older woman instead of a younger one.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, look, really, so, third, thus, well, in fact, first of all, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 10.4613686534 220% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => 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: 1569.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 323.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85758513932 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23936324884 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32338038353 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489164086687 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 473.4 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.7864134179 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.0625 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1875 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8125 7.06452816374 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.67370381134 0.272083759551 248% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.27603042438 0.0996497079465 277% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.124843849241 0.0662205650399 189% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.457071874385 0.162205337803 282% => Maybe some contents are duplicated.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0560812518072 0.0443174109184 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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