The author of the passage holds that Robert E. Peary’s trip to the North Pole is well-supported by several arguments, while the lecturer in the lecture expresses an opposite view.
To begin with, the author claims that Peary’s records have been verified by a committee conducted by the National Geographic Society. However, the lecturer refutes that this investigation is not objective because it consists of Peary’s friends who even donated money to fund his trip. Besides, the evaluation procedure only lasted for 2 days, making it impossible for the committee to check the records carefully. As a result, their conclusion that bolsters Peary’s records is too biased to trust.
Moreover, the author believes that it is possible of Peary’s reaching the North Pole in only 37 days because a modern explorer named Tom Avery has made a similar trek recently. On the contrary, the lecturer rebuts that there are many differences between those two trips. First, there is no wonder that Avery could finish the trip quickly since he carried fewer things by asking an airplane to drop food for him, while Peary traveled with full weight. Second, the weather was good when Avery headed to the pole but it is unfavorable when Peary did that. Those factors cause Peary’s trip much more difficult than we assume.
Finally, the author puts forward that the Surf’s position demonstrated in Peary’s photographs proves his arriving at the North Pole. Instead, the lecturer retorts that this evidence is unreliable because the camera Peary used is primitive. The Surf’s shadow in those photos on which technology depends is not precise enough for scientists to calculate its position in the sun. In addition, due to the long period passing by, the photos are faded and worn, which makes it difficult to assure the Surf’s position accurately. Therefore, we are not sure about where Peary was.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, well, while, in addition, as a result, on the contrary, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1632.0 1373.03311258 119% => OK
No of words: 311.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24758842444 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7734605487 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 145.348785872 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.607717041801 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 504.9 419.366225166 120% => 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
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.6436765922 49.2860985944 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.0 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4375 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0625 7.06452816374 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.38819154677 0.272083759551 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121044108282 0.0996497079465 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0826285540194 0.0662205650399 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.230722532526 0.162205337803 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0453849726275 0.0443174109184 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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