TOEFL integrated writing: Dutch painter Rambrandt

The passage discusses the most famous painter of the seventeenth-century, Rembrandt. It states that there are some clues which might suggest that the painting Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet might not be a work done by Rembrandt and provides three reasons to support. However, the professor refutes each of the author's reasons.

First, the reading states that there are inconsistencies in the dress in the portrait. The woman is wearing a linen cap, which was a servant's apparel back in the past. Although, the coat she has on her body is an expensive fur collar which, by all means, could not be affordable by any servants. The professor refutes this point by providing a result of the x-ray test of the painting's pigment. It indicates that the painting was repainted on top of the original one.

Second, the article claims that Rembrandt was a light and shadow expert. However, in the painting, the face appears to be overexposed by light reflected from the dark fur collar below, which does not make any sense. The professor contends this point by mentioning that if the shade is removed, the real painting will appear and we will see the light color cloth, which reflects light.

Third, the reading avers that the panel used by this painting is assembled by small pieces of woods The reading continues that none of Rembrandt's work uses this kind of panel. The lecture opposes this point by mentioning that the panel was made that way on purpose, to make it grander. Also, he mentioned that all the pieces of wood the article mentioned were actually made from the same tree according to the research.

To conclude, although the reading and the lecture are both about Rembrandt's painting, three main points in the reading are effectively challenged by the lecturer.

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Average: 0.3 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, however, if, second, so, third, kind of

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1492.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 305.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89180327869 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62676771465 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.524590163934 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 436.5 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.1296411884 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.4666666667 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3333333333 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.13333333333 7.06452816374 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.27373068433 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0105966014355 0.272083759551 4% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0052496402304 0.0996497079465 5% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.019642355146 0.0662205650399 30% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.00686482172252 0.162205337803 4% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.013729643445 0.0443174109184 31% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 53.8541721854 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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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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