Essay topics: TPO-44 - Integrated Writing Task

Essay topics:

Essay topics: TPO-44 - Integrated Writing Task

An ancient silver coin which was found in the state of Maine in the USA is discussed in both the reading passage and the audio. The author gives some evidence in order to support the stance that this coin is a fake; however, the lecturer provides us with some novel evidence which buttresses the idea that a contact between Native Americans and Europeans took place a thousand years ago before the continent was rediscovered by Columbus. The evidence will be discussed in details below.

Firstly, the author avers that there is a great distance between the archaeological site and settlements of Norses in Canada thus there is no way the contact might take place. The speaker debunks the prospect due to the possibility that the group of Native Americans who lived in Maine's site might travel great distances in order to collect interesting items from overseas. In fact, at the site some other objects which were originated from Europe have been found.

Secondly, the text states that only one coin was found therefore this is a fake. At the same time, the speaker gives us a reasonable explanation of the fact discussed. He avers that Europeans did not build regular settlements they lived for a while in Canada and then returned to Europe; the coins which they probably brought to the new continent were taken back to Europe because they had a great value for the Norse people.

Finally, the writer claims that silver coins were not perceived by Native Americans as money; consequently, it was useless to bring them to the Canada settlements. The speaker disagrees with this stance. Although coins indeed were not recognized by local dwellers as money they may be used as a mean for bargaining. The Native Americans liked beautiful and interesting items and if they considered the coins as attractive, the coins may be successfully employed to trade with the native people.

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Average: 9.1 (3 votes)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, well, while, in fact

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1569.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 318.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93396226415 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5887685562 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528301886792 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 498.6 419.366225166 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 77.0938105252 49.2860985944 156% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.692307692 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4615384615 21.698381199 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.76923076923 7.06452816374 138% => 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: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.466897699729 0.272083759551 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.147573593195 0.0996497079465 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0740040775295 0.0662205650399 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.258838944685 0.162205337803 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.047716030118 0.0443174109184 108% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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flaws:
No. of Words: 318 250
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 26 in 30 //the e-grader gives lower marks because the No. of Words is over 300
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 12
No. of Words: 318 250
No. of Characters: 1532 1200
No. of Different Words: 163 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.223 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.818 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.52 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 99 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 73 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 50 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.462 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.87 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.33 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.561 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.112 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4