Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage
Both the passage and lecture discuss the contributions African-Americans made as a result of slavery to American culture.The passage begins by discussing African slaves attempted to maintain the cultural identify and traditions, often in defiance and in resistance to slavery. While many of their practices and traditions were restricted, many of their values and beliefs survived and have either been modified or mixed with the cultures of their owners. This is supported by the professor in that African slaves had a profound influence on American culture.
He claims that American language was influenced by African culture because it is filled with Africanisms and these include words such as bogus, funky, jamboree and others. Food was another big influence and so was music. This is corroborated by the author who makes the same claim. For instance, slaves who spoke different languages were mixed together and this resulted in the creation of new dialects such as Creole, which is spoken by both blacks and whites in Louisiana. Food is another influence in which "soul food", based on the food preparation of black slaves, has influenced and is synonymous with Southern cuisine.
Finally, in terms of religion, the author notes that slaves were stripped of their religion and forced to become Christians. However, they retained many aspects of their culture and incorporated them into their worship. According to professor, the slaves made use of religious and cultural traditions as a way of coping with slavery and drew on African customs, particularly in burying their dead.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 122, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...a result of slavery to American culture.The passage begins by discussing African sl...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, so, while, for instance, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 7.30242825607 233% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1349.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 252.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35317460317 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98428260373 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86256925175 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 423.9 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.23620309051 36% => 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: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.0610356312 49.2860985944 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.636363636 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9090909091 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.54545454545 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.0494734774848 0.272083759551 18% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0177243515817 0.0996497079465 18% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0334777186192 0.0662205650399 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0376457517111 0.162205337803 23% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0278511788006 0.0443174109184 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 53.8541721854 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.0289183223 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.05 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.99 8.42419426049 119% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => 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.
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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