Question: Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the points made in the reading passage. You have 20 minutes to type your response.
The reading passage states that the settlers relocated to the Island of Croatoa, and gives three reasons of support. However, the lecturer claims that none of the theories about the disappearance can be proven, and attacks each of the claims made by the author.
First, the reading posits that the carved word “Croatoa” onto a piece of wood is proof of the relocation. However, the professor thinks that this point doesn’t make sense. She explains that the Governor commanded the settlers to go inside the country if they face any harsh conditions or lack of food. It is more likely that they went there rather than going to the Island which in the opposite direction.
, so the colony wouldn’t oppose their governor for a less advantageous location.
Second, the author states that the English artifacts which have been found on Croatoa Island support his idea. Again, the professor rebuts this point by explaining that this in no way a proof = proves nothing. She says that settlers used to exchange goods with Corotan (trade their belongings for food and other items) in order to get food in the harsh conditions. The ring mentioned in the article, for example, might be on the island due to this kind of trade rather than the relocation.
Third, the reading claims that the inhabitants possessed European characteristics due to the relocation. On the contrary, the lecturer opposes this idea. She explains that after 1587 a lot of group of settlers came to this area. The search parties came after more than 100 years, so anyone of the other settlers groups may affect the characteristics of Corotan people.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 422, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...Island which in the opposite direction. , so the colony wouldn't oppose thei...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, so, third, for example, kind of, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1362.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 272.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00735294118 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06108636974 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74780437781 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555147058824 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 398.7 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.1325434328 49.2860985944 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 90.8 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1333333333 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.73333333333 7.06452816374 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.100514079043 0.272083759551 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0325820457701 0.0996497079465 33% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0268891283007 0.0662205650399 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0506555623581 0.162205337803 31% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0324266773766 0.0443174109184 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.48 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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