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 inan 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 ofthe teenage girl in the painting. The eyebrows, nose, mouth, and overall shape of the face are very muchlike those in the full-length portrait.
Third, although the painting is unsigned and undated, there isevidence 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 article states that the new portrait that recently came up for sale by Austen family- the most famous of all English novelist- is Jane Austen originated and provides three reasons of support. However, the article says that this portrait isn't Austen's face and refutes each of the reading's reasons.
First, the article says that as a matter of a fact Austen's family published this portrait with Austen's letter, so it's originated. but the professor argues with that and says that letter published at 1882 and at that time Austen has been died 17 years, so Austen family didn't see Austen by their selfs.
Second, the reading claims that the face in the portrait clearly resembles the one in Cassandra's sketch, which we know depicts Austen, even though Cassandra's sketch is of an adult Jane Austen. On the other hand, the professor refutes this point by saying that Cassandra's sketch has different subject of this portrait.
Finally, the reading says that by dating the portrait we can claims that it refers to Austen's teenager time. However, the professor disagrees and says that we cannot use just style method for dating, whereas by other dating method we reach other timing.
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and says that letter published at 1882
and says that the letter was published at 1882
Sentence: Finally, the reading says that by dating the portrait we can claims that it refers to Austen's teenager time.
Description: A modal auxillary is not usually followed by a noun, plural, common
Suggestion: Refer to can and claims
flaws:
No. of Words: 201 250 //more content wanted from the lecture.
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 20 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 7 12
No. of Words: 201 250
No. of Characters: 964 1200
No. of Different Words: 104 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.765 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.796 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.267 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 78 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 46 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 28 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 14 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.714 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.115 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.857 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.516 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.796 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.274 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 242, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...er, the article says that this portrait isnt Austens face and refutes each of the re...
^^^^
Line 4, column 131, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: But
...with Austens letter, so its originated. but the professor argues with that and says...
^^^
Line 4, column 270, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...as been died 17 years, so Austen family didnt see Austen by their selfs. Second, t...
^^^^^
Line 8, column 62, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'claim'
Suggestion: claim
...says that by dating the portrait we can claims that it refers to Austens teenager time...
^^^^^^
Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'whereas', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.301369863014 0.261695866417 115% => OK
Verbs: 0.155251141553 0.158904122519 98% => OK
Adjectives: 0.041095890411 0.0723426182421 57% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0456621004566 0.0435111971325 105% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0319634703196 0.0277247811725 115% => OK
Prepositions: 0.146118721461 0.128828473217 113% => OK
Participles: 0.041095890411 0.0370669169778 111% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.26530077168 2.5805825403 88% => OK
Infinitives: 0.00456621004566 0.0208969081088 22% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.00456621004566 0.00154638098197 295% => OK
Determiners: 0.123287671233 0.128158765124 96% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00913242009132 0.0158828679856 57% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00913242009132 0.0114777025283 80% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1191.0 1645.83664459 72% => OK
No of words: 199.0 271.125827815 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.98492462312 6.08160592843 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.75589349951 4.04852973271 93% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.407035175879 0.374372842146 109% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.27135678392 0.287516216867 94% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.145728643216 0.187439937562 78% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0753768844221 0.113142543107 67% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.26530077168 2.5805825403 88% => OK
Unique words: 112.0 145.348785872 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.562814070352 0.539623497131 104% => OK
Word variations: 51.3464645347 53.8517498576 95% => OK
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0529801325 61% => OK
Sentence length: 24.875 21.7502111507 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.1556638788 49.3711431718 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.875 132.220823453 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.875 21.7502111507 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.125 0.878197800319 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 3.39072847682 118% => OK
Readability: 52.010678392 50.5018328374 103% => OK
Elegance: 2.09803921569 1.90840788429 110% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.265898415552 0.549887131256 48% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.213478236865 0.142949733639 149% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.058858650234 0.0787303798458 75% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.75945310376 0.631733273073 120% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0836018816859 0.139662658121 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.147650289818 0.266732575781 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0722467241096 0.103435571967 70% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.299215863483 0.414875509568 72% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0656231022702 0.0530846634433 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186333847343 0.40443939384 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0697589070576 0.0528353158467 132% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.26048565121 47% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 3.49668874172 114% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.62251655629 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 3.1766004415 63% => OK
Total topic words: 8.0 10.2958057395 78% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Minimum 200 words wanted.
Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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