tpo 25
In 1938 an archaeologist in Iraq acquired a set of clay jars that had been excavated two years earlier by villagers constructing a railroad line. The vessel was about 2,200 years old. Each clay jar contained a copper cylinder surrounding an iron rod. The archaeologist proposed that vessel were ancient electric batteries and even demonstrated that they can produce a small electric current when filled with some liquids. However, it is not likely that the vessels were actually used as electric batteries in ancient times.
The reading and lecture are both about a jar which was found in Iraq and archaeologist claimed that this vessel can produce electricity. The author of the reading disagree with the claim and represents several reasons. The lecturer challenged the claims made by the author. He is on the opinion that the argument used in the reading is unconvincing and may be incorrect.
To begin with, the author argues that if the vessels are used as batteries then it connected with any wire. He claims that but there is no evidence in the location. The specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He mentions that vessels discovered by the local people, not by the archaeologist. He also states that may be local people found other material but archaeologist does not know about it.
Second, the author suggests that a similar copper cylinder found in the Seleucia which was used for scrolls of sacred texts. He also additionally says, though it was the same shape of the Seleucia pottery then it can say that it was used for scrolls. The lecturer rebuts this by mentioning that it is possible that the jar was made for other purposes. He also claims that scientist showed that clay with iron rod conducts electricity.
Third, the author posits that ancient people required other devices to support electricity but that time there was no such devices. In contrast, the lecturer position is that may be they used for a mild shock when touching. He also notes that the ancient doctor might use it for some kind of medicine like the relief of muscle stress.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 220, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...e claim and represents several reasons. The lecturer challenged the claims made by ...
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Line 13, column 176, Rule ID: MAY_BE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'maybe' (=perhaps)?
Suggestion: maybe
...contrast, the lecturer position is that may be they used for a mild shock when touchin...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, second, so, then, third, in contrast, kind of, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1298.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 268.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84328358209 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55257427751 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.507462686567 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 395.1 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.9301194318 49.2860985944 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 81.125 110.228320801 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.75 21.698381199 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 7.06452816374 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252592418145 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0828645455142 0.0996497079465 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0580835328727 0.0662205650399 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155807603477 0.162205337803 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0322449288373 0.0443174109184 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.3589403974 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.79 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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