Summarise the points made in the lecture being sure to explain how they case doubt on specific points made in the reading passage Jane Austen 1775 1817 is one of the most famous of all English novelists and today her novels are more popular than ever with | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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Summarise the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they case doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the most famous of all English novelists, and today her novels are more popular than ever, with several recently adapted as Hollywood movies. But we do not have many records of what she looked like. For a long time, the only accepted image of Austen was an amateur sketch of an adult Austen made by her sister Cassandra. However recently a professionally painted, full-length portrait of a teenage girl owned by a member of the Austen family has come up for sale. Although the professional painting is not titled Jane Austen, there are good reasons to believe she is the subject.

First, in 1882, several decades after Austen's death, Austen's family gave permission to use the portrait as an illustration in an edition of her letters. Austen's family clearly recognized it as a portrait of the author. So, for over a century now, the Austen family itself has endorsed the claim that the girl in the portrait is Jane Austen.

Second, the face in the portrait clearly resembles the one in Cassandra's sketch, which we know depicts Austen. Though somewhat amateurish, the sketch communicates definite details about Austen's face. Even though the Cassandra sketch is of an adult Jane Austen, the features are still similar to those of the teenage girl in the painting. The eyebrows, nose, mouth, and overall shape of the face are very much like those in the full-length portrait.

Third, although the painting is unsigned and undated, there is evidence that it was painted when Austen was a teenager. The style links it to Ozias Humphrey, a society portrait painter who was the kind of professional the wealthy Austen family would hire. Humphrey was active in the late 1780s and early 1790s, exactly the period when Jane Austen was the age of the girl in the painting.

Recently, there has been a ton of debate as to that a new full-length portrait of a teenage girl is Jane Austen. More specifically, in regard to the passages, the writer puts forth the idea that there are several good reasons to believe this teenage girl in the portrait is Jane Austen. In the listening passage, the lecturer is quick to point out there are serious flaws in the writer's claims. In fact, the lecturer believes there is not at all convincing evidence to prove this idea, and addresses, in detail, the trouble with each point made in the reading text.
First and foremost, the author of the reading text states that Austen's family confirmed that the teenage girl in the portrait is Jane. Some professionals in the same field, however, stand firm in opposition to this claim. In the listening, the lecturer believes that by the time that family confirmed the validity of the portrait, Jane Austen had died for almost 70 years. So they had never seen her recognize her in teenage age.
Second, the author of the reading thinks that the face of the portrait resembles the one in Cassandra's sketch which is the only picture of Austen. Although, the sketch is of an adult Jane Austen there are lots of similarities between the girl in the portrait and the sketch. On the other hand, the lecturer believes that this portrait can belong to one of her relatives. Most of Austen's relatives were teenagers or have children at that age so they can be the subject of the portrait.
Finally, the author wraps his argument bt positing that the style of painting links to the Ozias Humphery, which was a professional portrait painter at that time and worked for Austen's family. Not surprisingly, the lecturer takes issue with this claim by contending that the style of the portrait belong to a later date when Austen was 27 years old and older than the girl in the portrait.
To sum up, obviously, the lecturer and the author hold conflicting views about this portrait. It's clear that they will have trouble finding common ground on this issue.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, second, so, as to, in fact, in regard to, to sum up, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 30.3222958057 168% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1690.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 358.0 270.72406181 132% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72067039106 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34981470047 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46847101389 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494413407821 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 509.4 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.6340374563 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.625 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.375 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.1875 7.06452816374 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.177542569321 0.272083759551 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0641958135229 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0394950007069 0.0662205650399 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0985402162822 0.162205337803 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0494894326127 0.0443174109184 112% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 53.8541721854 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 12.2367328918 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.46 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, second, so, as to, in fact, in regard to, to sum up, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments