Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
The article talks about the early works of James MacNeil Whistler
The article talks about the early works of James MacNeil Whistler. Specifically, the writer discusses proof that the recently discovered painting of a woman in a white dress, though not signed by Whistler, is likely to be one of his early works. The speaker in the listening passage disagrees. He believes that there is not enough evidence to support the writer’s claims and he attacks each of the claims in the reading.
First, the writer begins by saying that three years after Whistler’s death, this painting was included in one of the exhibitions of paintings in London organized by one of Whistler’s close friends and the painting was attributed to being whistlers. The speaker, on the other hand, refutes this point by saying that according to records, the show was not for an exhibition of whistler’s works but it was the friend’s show and therefore, not enough reason to attribute the painting to be that of Whistler’s early paintings.
Secondly, the author also claims that the woman in the painting clearly resembles the woman in Whistler’s “Symphony in White”. Again, the speaker believes that there are flaws in the writer’s logic. He holds that the painting could have been done by a lot of other painters in Whistler’s time. He further says that the use of black and white does not necessarily make it whistlers as that was the common style at that time. Therefore, the claim is not sufficient enough to conclude that the painting is that of Whistler.
Finally, the writer concludes his argument by suggesting that the small butterfly in the corner of the painting gives direct evidence of Whistler’s authorship of the work. Not Surprisingly, the lecturer takes issue with this claim by contending that the butterfly on the painting is at the lower right corner but Whistler always draws the butterfly in his paintings at the upper left corner of his works he further says that this painting could just be a forgery by someone trying to make his work look like it was painted by Whistler. Therefore, he states that this claim is not convincing enough.
To sum up, both the writer and the speaker holds conflicting views about the painting of the woman in a white dress to be an early work of Whistler. It is therefore evident that they will have a problem finding a common ground on this issue.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, look, second, secondly, so, therefore, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 22.412803532 178% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 30.3222958057 204% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1943.0 1373.03311258 142% => OK
No of words: 398.0 270.72406181 147% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88190954774 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46653527281 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70317781019 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 145.348785872 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.434673366834 0.540411800872 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 558.9 419.366225166 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 84.699445652 49.2860985944 172% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.4375 110.228320801 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.875 21.698381199 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.125 7.06452816374 87% => 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 : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.156374910433 0.272083759551 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0692969799356 0.0996497079465 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0958862402391 0.0662205650399 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105808831629 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0487086931971 0.0443174109184 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 53.8541721854 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.8 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => 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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