The author describes that there are some doubts about the accuracy of Chevalier's memoir and provides three reasons to support this claim. On the other hand, the lecturer states that even though no memoir is accurate overall, the Chevalier's memoir is the reliable history resource and refutes each of the author's reasons with rational grounds.
First of all, the writer states that Chevalier was poor, since he borrowed a large amount of money from a Swiss merchant. Nevertheless, the professor posits that he was a wealthy person due to the fact that he spent a bunch of money at Swiss in parties and gambling. To be more specific, he was wealthy, but he should first sell his assets in order to get cash.
Second, according to the reading, critics are dubious about the validity of the conversations that Chevalier recorded in the memoir. Conversely, the speaker brings up the idea that Chevalier wrote all of the conversations each day after his talks, and they were kept for many years. Besides, persons, who lived with Chevalier consulted with the author and confirmed the accuracy of the conversations when composing the memoir.
Third, the author expresses that Chevalier jailers were bribed to free him. However, the speaker points out that other prisons at that time had even more politically well-connected friends, but none of them could escape from the jail. In fact, bribery was hard. Furthermore, there is some documentary evidence from the government, which indicates that soon after Chevalier escaped from the jail, the ceiling of the room was repaired. Had he not escaped from the jail, the ceiling of his room would not have been repaired.
Therefore, the points mentioned in the reading do not make sense.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 197, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...brings up the idea that Chevalier wrote all of the conversations each day after his talks,...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, conversely, first, furthermore, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, third, well, in fact, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => 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: 1441.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 287.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02090592334 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58782061773 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557491289199 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 429.3 419.366225166 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.5785932568 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.928571429 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.6428571429 7.06452816374 151% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.499234010802 0.272083759551 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.152564124947 0.0996497079465 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0632573213452 0.0662205650399 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215970554075 0.162205337803 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0959412413813 0.0443174109184 216% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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