TPO-08 - Integrated Writing Task 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 ki

The content of the reading and listening is totally opposing to each other in whether the memoir Chevalier wrote is accurate or not.

To begin with, the reading indicates that Chevalier wasn't as wealthy as he stated in the memoir because he borrowed a huge mount of money from a merchant. This opinion is contradictory to the speaker who says that borrowing loans didn't mean Chevalier was poor. He had a lot of property which needed to be sold to get money. There were a few days before he could access to the money.

In the second place, it is suggested in the reading that the conversations between Chevalier and Voltaire are inaccurate because they happened many years ago. However, the speaker refutes this idea because Chevalier recorded everything he and Voltaire talked in the journal. Chevalier confirmed that he referred to these notes and journals when he wrote the book.

Lastly, the reading points out that Chevalier was freed deliberately by the jailers because he had friends with power who could have offered a bribe. Nevertheless, the speaker disproves it by putting forth the idea that there were other prisoners who had even more powerful friends but they didn't manage to escape. The old government documents also support speaker's idea by showing that the ceiling of the prison needed to be repaired after Chevalier’s escape, which means that the content in the book is accurate.

Votes
Average: 7.9 (3 votes)
Essay Categories

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 53, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wasn't
...h, the reading indicates that Chevalier wasnt as wealthy as he stated in the memoir b...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 231, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...e speaker who says that borrowing loans didnt mean Chevalier was poor. He had a lot o...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 292, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...had even more powerful friends but they didnt manage to escape. The old government do...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 358, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'speakers'' or 'speaker's'?
Suggestion: speakers'; speaker's
...e old government documents also support speakers idea by showing that the ceiling of the...
^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, lastly, nevertheless, second, so, to begin with, in the second place

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => 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: 1178.0 1373.03311258 86% => OK
No of words: 236.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99152542373 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91947592106 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63203476601 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.563559322034 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 366.3 419.366225166 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => 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: 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: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.3025107588 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.090909091 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4545454545 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.06452816374 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.350022812192 0.272083759551 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136641194408 0.0996497079465 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0572496230145 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206020796943 0.162205337803 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.049643483386 0.0443174109184 112% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

---------------------

Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.

Sentence: The content of the reading and listening is totally opposing to each other in whether the memoir Chevalier wrote is accurate or not.
Description: The tag a verb, past tense is not usually followed by is
Suggestion: Refer to wrote and is

because they happened many years ago
Description: the meaning of the sentence is not clear.

Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 24 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 12
No. of Words: 239 250
No. of Characters: 1143 1200
No. of Different Words: 135 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.932 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.782 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.55 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 82 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 67 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 38 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 24 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.727 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.593 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.545 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.407 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.632 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.217 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4