The reading and the lecture are both about the creator of some pieces of photographic negatives. The author of the reading believes that based on evidence, the photographies belong to Ansel Adams. The claims made by the author are challenged by the lecturer. He is of the opinion that none of the reasons explained by the author are valid.
First of all, the author suggests that one of the negatives contain a large pine tree leaning downward, which resembles the kinds of photographies created by Adams. The lecturer refutes this specific argument. He states that the pine tree in the negative is a famus landmark subjected for many photographies.
Secondly, the author posits that the numbers and place names written on the envelops are probably handwritings of Ansel Adams' wife. The lecturer, however, believes that there are some miss-spelling locations on the envelopes which make them unlikely to be writings of Virginia Adams, Ansel Adams' wife. He elaborates on this by mentioning that Virginia had grown up in the city and was quite familiar with the locations; therefore, she couldn't miss-spell the place names.
Finally, the author proposes that some of the negatives had been burned by fire. It is said in the reading that a third of Ansel Adams' negatives had been damaged by fire, and these negatives are probably among those. The lecturer, on the other hand, argues that creating negatives contain procedures that are highly flamable; accordingly, this fire damage could occure for any photographer dealing with creating negatives.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 436, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
...liar with the locations; therefore, she couldnt miss-spell the place names. Finall...
^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 35, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
... Finally, the author proposes that some of the negatives had been burned by fire. It i...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1020.0 1373.03311258 74% => OK
No of words: 193.0 270.72406181 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28497409326 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72725689877 4.04702891845 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73199027075 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 116.0 145.348785872 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.60103626943 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 323.1 419.366225166 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.8748368143 49.2860985944 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.333333333 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4444444444 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.5555555556 7.06452816374 178% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213741440311 0.272083759551 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0863384058464 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0510351126494 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127723997246 0.162205337803 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0254482532251 0.0443174109184 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 53.8541721854 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.51 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
Read sample essays from ETS:
http://www.testbig.com/users/toeflwritingmaster
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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 3, column 436, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
...liar with the locations; therefore, she couldnt miss-spell the place names. Finall...
^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 35, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
... Finally, the author proposes that some of the negatives had been burned by fire. It i...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1020.0 1373.03311258 74% => OK
No of words: 193.0 270.72406181 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28497409326 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72725689877 4.04702891845 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73199027075 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 116.0 145.348785872 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.60103626943 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 323.1 419.366225166 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.8748368143 49.2860985944 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.333333333 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4444444444 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.5555555556 7.06452816374 178% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213741440311 0.272083759551 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0863384058464 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0510351126494 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127723997246 0.162205337803 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0254482532251 0.0443174109184 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 53.8541721854 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.51 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
Read sample essays from ETS:
http://www.testbig.com/users/toeflwritingmaster
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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.