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 a show of different works from the man’s collection. The painting could be one of the friend’s works but decides to attribute it to Whistlers. Thus, not enough evidence 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 as the woman in a white dress was a common painting among painters at that 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 has a different shape and color and it was positioned 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 on a close examination of the painting, it will be noticed that the butterfly was added after the painting was completed. Thus, this 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, thus, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 10.4613686534 229% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 22.412803532 196% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 30.3222958057 241% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2241.0 1373.03311258 163% => OK
No of words: 463.0 270.72406181 171% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84017278618 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63868890866 4.04702891845 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70828897948 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 145.348785872 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.408207343413 0.540411800872 76% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 652.5 419.366225166 156% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => 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: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 84.7299441455 49.2860985944 172% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.947368421 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3684210526 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47368421053 7.06452816374 77% => 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: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.152129663628 0.272083759551 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0685629459599 0.0996497079465 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0880794679563 0.0662205650399 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10707755777 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0513889907073 0.0443174109184 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => 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: 11.09 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => 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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