TPO 28- Robert E. Peary was a well-known adventurer and arctic explorer who in 1909 set out to reach the North Pole. When he returned from the expedition, he claimed to have reached the pole on April 7, 1909. This report made him into an international celebrity. Though some historians have expressed doubts that Peary did in fact reach the North Pole, three arguments provide strong support for the truth of Peary’s claim.
The reading and lecture are both about the expedition of Robert Peary to the North Pole. The author of the reading believes that Peary reached North pole with three theories of support. However, the lecturer casts doubts about the claims made in the article and refutes all the theories presented. The lecturer says that there are no solid evidence that Peary reached North Pole.
First of all, the author points out that National Geographic has conducted investigation to know if the expedition was accurate or not. The article notes that upon inspecting the records and tools used by Peary they concluded that his claims are accurate and concise. The point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that it is true that National geographic conducted investigation to know if Peary reached the North pole. Furthermore, she argues that the data and details obtained are not objective. In addition, the committee was close friends of Peary and they paid large amount of money to fund the trip of Peary. Also, they only examined the records of Peary's account for only two days and it was not enough to thoroughly examine his claims.
Secondly, the author contends that there are recent expedition telling that they reached North Pole in 37 days, the same with the claims of Peary. The article establishes that Tom Avery, made the same trek and dog sleds with Peary but only took him less that 37 days and this accounts denotes that Peary's account are true. However, the lecturer rebuts this argument. He suggests that the difficulties Avery and Peary had on their trip to North Pole are not the same. Moreover, he elaborates on this by mentioning that although they have the same sled as Peary has, but the weight and number of supplies they bring are not the same. For example Avery food was delivered to him by an airplane and his trip has more favorable terrains than Peary's.
Finally, the author states that the photographs taken in North Pole has evidence to support his expedition. The articles denotes that the shadow of the sun has the same position on the day the photograph was taken providing a strong evidence to support his accounts. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that the photograph does not prove anything. He puts forth the idea that it has no precise method to calculate the shadow of the sun and did not know the exact position of the sun, thus, making Peary's claims inaccurate. In addition, the photograph is unfocused, faded and worn out. The shadow in the image is blurred and faded and it cannot accurately tell if it is taken in the North Pole.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 122, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'denote'.
Suggestion: denote
...to support his expedition. The articles denotes that the shadow of the sun has the same...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, for example, in addition, first of all, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 7.30242825607 260% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 22.412803532 210% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 5.01324503311 279% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2136.0 1373.03311258 156% => OK
No of words: 447.0 270.72406181 165% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.77852348993 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.04702891845 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39286609462 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 145.348785872 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.4451901566 0.540411800872 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 662.4 419.366225166 158% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 17.0 8.23620309051 206% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 13.0662251656 176% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.9958358664 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.8695652174 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4347826087 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.95652173913 7.06452816374 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.561388563385 0.272083759551 206% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.155625429686 0.0996497079465 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102259390144 0.0662205650399 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.33982466151 0.162205337803 210% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0549217752774 0.0443174109184 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.44 12.2367328918 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 63.6247240618 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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