Question : Summarise the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they case doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
In the reading passage, the author feels that are three possible explanations to support that Robert E. Peary reached the North Pole in 1909. However, finding all these ideas implausible and questionable, the lecture casts doubt on what is presented and states some evidence to the contrary.
To begin with, the writer suggests that the investigation made by the National Geographic Society concluded that Peary’s accounts were consistent and declared that he had indeed reached the North Pole. This specific argument is challenged by the lecture. She argues that this investigation was not complete objective due to the fact that this Society was composed by Peary’s friends. Moreover, she posits that in only two days the facts could not be examined.
Secondly, the author claims that Tom Avery made the same trek of Peary in less than 37 days. In contrast, the lecture rebuts this idea by saying that the Avery carried much less weight than Peary. Also, she mentions that the weather Avery's trek was better than the Peary. As a result, she thinks that this explanation is faulty.
Finally, the reading believes that a photo of Peary support the idea that he reached the North Pole in order to the correct Sun's position on the day. But, the lecture rejects this argument. She is of the opinion that a primitive camera could not provide evidence that the position of the Sun in Peary's photo is accurate. Hence, she points out that this idea can not be true.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, in contrast, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1223.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 249.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91164658635 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97237131171 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44403825889 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.546184738956 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 369.0 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => 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: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.569899673 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.5333333333 110.228320801 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6 21.698381199 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.4 7.06452816374 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.105821861135 0.272083759551 39% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0359912349503 0.0996497079465 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0332547654644 0.0662205650399 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0622649633656 0.162205337803 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0135844163938 0.0443174109184 31% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 13.3589403974 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.9 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => 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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