Question: Summarise the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
The author supports the Peary claims that he reached the North Pole. Professor cast doubts on the author points that Peary had reached the North Pole
The author proposes three arguments to support the Peary claims that he indeed reached the North Pole. However, the professor says there is no solid evidence for supporting the peary claims and the author's reasons for support are not very convincing. He counters all three reasons for the support of the author.
First, as the author says the National geographic society conducted an investigation on Peary expeditions. The thorough investigation of the committee concluded that he had indeed reached the North Pole. The professor explains that yes it is true that National geographic Society declared that Peary did indeed reached the North Pole but the committee were the friends of Peary and funded them. Secondly, the investigation is not thorough as the author suggests it was only 2 days investigation and peary himself says that they did not examine very thoroughly. So, the declaration from the National Geographic Society was biased and not trustworthy.
Second, the author explains that it is possible to reach the North Pole in 37 days as the Avery did in less than 37 days than it is possible for Peary to reach the North Pole in 37 days too. However, the professor refutes this by saying, the Avery and Peary conditions were not similar they have different circumstances. The Avery did use the same sled but he did not have that much weight as the Peary had because the helicopter drops the food so his sled doesn't weigh that much as much the Peary sled was. Hence, the Peary speedy expedition cannot support the claims he makes.
Third, the author suggests that Peary has photographs which were one of the proof that he reached the North Pole. By measuring the shadow from the sun's positions in the photographs they got an idea that he indeed had reached the North Pole. On the other hand, the professor opposes by saying that the photographs were 100 years old. They were faded, blurry, and not able to see the shadow properly. As the measuring needs accuracy to calculate the shadow in the picture so can locate the sun positions. Consequently, the Peary photographs were not clear and could not able to calculate precisely. It indicates that the calculation was not reliable and Peary did not reach the North Pole.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 458, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...e helicopter drops the food so his sled doesnt weigh that much as much the Peary sled ...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1862.0 1373.03311258 136% => OK
No of words: 381.0 270.72406181 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88713910761 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41805628031 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58527652305 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.40157480315 0.540411800872 74% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 557.1 419.366225166 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.276743494 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.0 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0526315789 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47368421053 7.06452816374 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.240818548574 0.272083759551 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0918197866623 0.0996497079465 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0637999216698 0.0662205650399 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16554097576 0.162205337803 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0390445837888 0.0443174109184 88% => 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: 11.08 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.32 8.42419426049 87% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => 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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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 458, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...e helicopter drops the food so his sled doesnt weigh that much as much the Peary sled ...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1862.0 1373.03311258 136% => OK
No of words: 381.0 270.72406181 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88713910761 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41805628031 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58527652305 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.40157480315 0.540411800872 74% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 557.1 419.366225166 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.276743494 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.0 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0526315789 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47368421053 7.06452816374 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.240818548574 0.272083759551 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0918197866623 0.0996497079465 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0637999216698 0.0662205650399 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16554097576 0.162205337803 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0390445837888 0.0443174109184 88% => 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: 11.08 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.32 8.42419426049 87% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => 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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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.