The reading and the lecture are both about the theories related to the discovery of America by Vikings. The author of the reading feels that last evidences suggest that Columbus did not discover America, and Vikings are the first people who inhabited in North America’s soil. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. He is of the opinion that most of these claims are partial, and these theories have not any scientific or archaeological background.
To begin with, the author argues that the Vikings reached North America with the start point from settlements in Greenland. The article mentions that when the Vikings reached the North American soil, they discovered a great, amazing place with wild grapes and called it Vinland. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that there is not actual evidence that Vinland is the same with Newfoundland. Additionally, he says that there are also wild grapes grow in Vikings’ homeland, so that is why they claim Newfoundland as the Vinland.
Secondly, the writer suggests that remains of nine Viking houses were found by Norwegian archaeologists in North America. In the article, it is said that these houses were similar to Norse homes, which are made of wooden frames covered with sod, just like homes in Greenland way before. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that this claim made by only 2 Norwegian archaeologists. He elaborates on this by bringing up the point that this claim is biased, and based on patriotism, because these archaeologists are from Norway.
Finally, the author posits that existence of Vikings in North America has been proven by the runestones, which are covered with runic inscriptions. Moreover, it is also stated that these runic alphabets were used in Scandinavia with almost same bedrocks. In contrast, the lecturer is of the opinion that these runestones authenticity is still unknown. He notes that these claims can not be the evidence for Vikings’ advent to the North America before Columbus.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 277, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... who inhabited in North America’s soil. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Line 4, column 302, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...alled it Vinland. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, then, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 10.4613686534 210% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 22.412803532 174% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1712.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 330.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18787878788 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75328337257 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521212121212 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 522.0 419.366225166 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.2398227003 49.2860985944 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.705882353 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4117647059 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.52941176471 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.27373068433 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214758839409 0.272083759551 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0741913362958 0.0996497079465 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0849113226039 0.0662205650399 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142350015513 0.162205337803 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0612568585308 0.0443174109184 138% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 63.6247240618 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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