The supposed voyage of Brendan the navigator from Ireland to North America
Brendan was a priest from Ireland who voyaged in the search for "Island of Blessed". The text cites three reasons why people believe that Brendan has visited America in the 6th century before any European explorations. The lecturer, however, opposes these evidences and says they are not convincing enough.
First, the passage suggests that the locations where Brendan stumbled upon during his voyage resemble the locations that one would normally encounter during a voyage from Ireland to North America. These locations are believed to be Faroe Island, Iceland and Greenland. The lecturer casts doubt on these interpretations by suggesting that these could be any other place. For instance, the island of sheep can be anywhere other than Faroe Island or an area with burning hill can be any hill where fire is burning.
Second, the journey have been re-enacted by a group of scholars by building a boat that have similar chracterstics to the boats of that time named curraghs. They concluded that this journey was possible by the technology of the time. According to professor, the reconstructed boat have superior feature to those of Brendan's time. For instance, the reconstructed boats are longer than Curraghs.
Third, markings that resemble the old Irish writing is another reason brought by the text. There are similarities between the discovered markings that contain vertical lines and ogham, a language used at the time. The professor states that, although, some letters resemble ogham but they contain characterstics that are not indicator of that language. For example, the discovered markings contain pictures of sun while ogham did not contain pictures.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, second, so, third, while, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1423.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 265.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36981132075 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76458300442 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.596226415094 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 434.7 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.0329368833 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.8666666667 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6666666667 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.165458749371 0.272083759551 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0470544361397 0.0996497079465 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0944767881295 0.0662205650399 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0955178886824 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0874284463749 0.0443174109184 197% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.57 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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