TPO-16 - Integrated Writing Task
The United Kingdom (sometimes referred to as Britain) has a long and rich history of human settlement. Traces of buildings, tools, and art can be found from periods going back many thousands of years: from the Stone Age, through the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the time of the Roman colonization, the Middle Ages, up to the beginnings of the industrial age. Yet for most of the twentieth century, the science of archaeology,dedicated to uncovering and studying old cultural artifacts,was faced with serious problems and limitations in Britain.
First, many valuable artifacts were lost to construction projects. The growth of Britain's population, especially from the 1950s on, spurred a lot of new construction in British cities, towns, and villages. While digging foundations for new buildings, the builders often uncovered archaeologically valuable sites.Usually, however, they proceeded with the construction and did not preserve the artifacts. Many archaeologically precious artifacts were therefore destroyed.
Second, many archaeologists felt that the financial support for archaeological research was inadequate. For most of the twentieth century, archaeology was funded mostly through government funds and grants, which allowed archaeologists to investigate a handful of the most important sites but which left hundreds of other interesting projects without support. Furthermore, changing government priorities brought about periodic reductions in funding.
Third, it was difficult to have a career in archaeology. Archaeology jobs were to be found at universities or with a few government agencies, but there were never many positions available. Many people who wanted to become archaeologists ended up pursuing other careers and contributing to archaeological research only as unpaid amateurs.
The professor states that the United Kingdom has adopted the new guideline with regard to construction since the 1990s, since then, the situation mentioned in the passage has improved considerably. The three main points of the improvement will be discussed further in the following paragraphs.
First, according to the guideline, the project of the construction needs to be examined by archaeologist before the construction starts. This new method will prevent valuable artifacts be lost because of construction. And if the result of the examination shows that there are some valuable sites at the foundation of the new building, the construction will be either moved to other places or be required to enhanced the construction techniques so that the valuable sites would not be destroyed.
Second, following the new guideline, the examination and the construction will be paid by construction companies rather than by government. The new way will allow researchers to have adequate funding to do their projects, compared to when fundings were paid by the government, at that time the money is rather scarce.
Third, because of the previous points, archaeologists will be needed in all stages of construction, as a result, the career opportunity will be increased. The archaeologists will be needed before the construction when the construction plan need to be examined, and will also be needed after the construction when the report is needed to be submitted. This will solve the problem that there are only a few opportunities in archaeology.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, second, so, then, third, as a result, with regard to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 22.412803532 36% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 5.01324503311 379% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1311.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 245.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35102040816 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95632099841 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.22036936424 2.5805825403 125% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.518367346939 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 388.8 419.366225166 93% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.8650153374 49.2860985944 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.1 110.228320801 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5 21.698381199 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.9 7.06452816374 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.16039730392 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0767918427592 0.0996497079465 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0296191150478 0.0662205650399 45% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10522817296 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0360293521384 0.0443174109184 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 13.3589403974 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.05 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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