Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage
The reading and lecture are both about the Phoenician who were well known about their seafaring skills which played a vital role in trade and commerce. The author of the reading states that although they were emerged in eastern Mediterranean they used to sail all way to Africa and they should not have done since that was quiet risky.
The lecturer disagrees. He mentions that there was nothing to worry about as the sailor were concerned about the facts and attacks each of the claim made in the article.
Firstly, the author begins by stating ships were not manufactured to handle the long distance trvel in open sea. In addition, ships were made of wooden with limited rooms and equuipment and they could not bear the attack of current and storm. The professor beelievs there are flaws in th writer’s position. He contends that eventhough the ships were of wooden they had metal plate in it. Furthermore, sailor were well equipped to handle all the circumtances that could have come.
Secondly, according to the reading the geographical feature of Africa could make journey challenging. For instance, “The cape of good hope” this location have unpredictable weather and current which could contributed for making voyage complex. The speaker on other hand points out that though the weather is difficult to predict with the aid of skilled sailor and navigation of star and landmark Phoenician used to conduct their journey easily.
Finally, the reading passage notes that all over the history there is not a single record of them completing their journey throughout the Africe. The professor rebuts this argument. He puts forth the idea that instead there is a indirect records of ancient egypt and greek to refer their complete journey.
As we can see the author and lecturer holds conflicting views on completion of journey all over Africa. The speaker effectively challenges the writer’s argument.
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...and they should not have done since that was quiet risky. The lecturer disagree...
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...ave done since that was quiet risky. The lecturer disagrees. He mentions that th...
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...is argument. He puts forth the idea that instead there is a indirect records of a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, well, for instance, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1606.0 1373.03311258 117% => OK
No of words: 315.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09841269841 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53363565845 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.552380952381 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 476.1 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => 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: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.6972865252 49.2860985944 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.4705882353 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5294117647 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.88235294118 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.09492273731 147% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.124313224823 0.272083759551 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0360164475545 0.0996497079465 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0352650646648 0.0662205650399 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0586001810936 0.162205337803 36% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0263476931573 0.0443174109184 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => 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: 12.3 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => 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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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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