Toward the end of his life, the Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798) wrote a long memoir recounting his life and adventures. The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure, but since he met many famous people, including kings and writers, his memoir has b

The reading and the lecture are both about the Chevalier de Seigalt's memoir, which recounts his life and adventures. The author of the reading believes that the Chevalier changed and invented some stories to make his memoir more exciting. The lecture castes doubt on the claims made in the article. She thinks that this memoir is a reliable historical source, apposing the three argument illustrated in the passage.

First of all, the author claims that while living in Swizzerland, the Chevalier wasn’t really rich. He believes that he had to borrow big amount of money from a Swiss merchant. This point is challenged by the lecture who says that the Chavalier had to do so, not because of luck of money but because he had to wait for his money to arrive after selling his proporty.

Secondly, the author states that the discussions between Voltaire and the Chavalier, reported in the memoir, is not accurate. He argues the possibility that the Chevalier could remember the details of the conversations and wrote them many years after that. The lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggests that the Chevalier wrote down the conversations, each night after the events and kept the notes with him. He used these notes to write his memoir. She elaborates in this by mentioning that there were witnessess who had lived with the Chavalier and had seen him referring to his notes to remember the discussion.

Finally, the author mentions that the Chevalier’s ran out from the prison was the result of jailers' bribe . The lecturer, on the other hand, believes that the Chevalier wasn’t able to bribe the jailers. according to her, there were big powerful people in the prison who couldn't manage for their escape, how could the Chevalier? She puts forth the idea that there is an evidence in an Venicien governmental documents which explains that the cell had to be repaired after the Chevalier’s escape.

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Average: 8.5 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...ories to make his memoir more exciting. The lecture castes doubt on the claims made...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...an out from the prison was the result of jailers bribe . The lecturer, on the oth...
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Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
... prison was the result of jailers bribe . The lecturer, on the other hand, believ...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: According
... wasn't able to bribe the jailers. according to her, there were big powerful people ...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
...e big powerful people in the prison who couldnt manage for their escape, how could the ...
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Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, really, second, secondly, so, while, first of all, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 22.412803532 174% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1607.0 1373.03311258 117% => OK
No of words: 320.0 270.72406181 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.021875 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22948505376 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70084295245 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528125 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 485.1 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 40.8641093446 49.2860985944 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.5294117647 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8235294118 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47058823529 7.06452816374 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.262536918597 0.272083759551 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0853517088147 0.0996497079465 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0846283107902 0.0662205650399 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160866339674 0.162205337803 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0724747478963 0.0443174109184 164% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => 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: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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