TPO 30- Integrated Task
The reading passage and professor both discuss the authenticity of theories attributed to the existence of "burning mirror". The author contends that the story of the burning mirror is just a myth, stating three conspicuous reasons so as to support. However, the lecturer, having a critical point of view, casts a shadow of doubt on what the author proposes. She states that the statement that burning mirror is a myth is unconvincing and refutes each of the author's reasons.
First, the author claims that the ancient Greeks did not have advanced technology to make such a device. On the contrary, the professor, not having been convinced, declares that the ancient Greeks did not need to shape a large sheet of copper to build the mirror. She proceeds to state that mathematics showed that if one uses twelve small falt pieces of copper, he/she can build a parabolic shape. Acording to the professor, the ancient Greeks knew math and could assemble small pieces to make the mirror.
Second, the author posits that it would take a long time that the burning mirror set moving wooden ships on fire. The lecturer opposes this point, saying that the Greeks did not need much time to burn the ships. To elucidate more on this issue, she explains that the mentioned exprement in the reading passage assumes that it takes time to set a wooden object on fire. The Roman ships were not only built from wood, but there were other materials which were utilized. To make the ships water proof, a material called pithch, that catches fire quickly, was used in building the ships. When this material were on fire, the fire would spread to other parts of the ships. That makes the burning mirror efficient for burning moving ships.
Finally, the author highlights the fact that the burning mirror was not an improvement on flaming arrows. On the other hand, the professor states that the Roman navy was familiar with flaming arrows. She sheds some light on this premise, stating that they could watch the arrows. But they were not able to see the rays from the mirror, only they saw a mirror and suddenly there were fire on the ships.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 231, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...myth, stating three conspicuous reasons so as to support. However, the lecturer, having ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 487, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled as one.
Suggestion: waterproof
... which were utilized. To make the ships water proof, a material called pithch, that catches...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'as to', 'on the contrary', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.244498777506 0.261695866417 93% => OK
Verbs: 0.205378973105 0.158904122519 129% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0562347188264 0.0723426182421 78% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0366748166259 0.0435111971325 84% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0220048899756 0.0277247811725 79% => OK
Prepositions: 0.102689486553 0.128828473217 80% => OK
Participles: 0.0635696821516 0.0370669169778 171% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.25211089544 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0342298288509 0.0208969081088 164% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.149144254279 0.128158765124 116% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0122249388753 0.0158828679856 77% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0122249388753 0.0114777025283 107% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2125.0 1645.83664459 129% => OK
No of words: 368.0 271.125827815 136% => OK
Chars per words: 5.77445652174 6.08160592843 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37987740619 4.04852973271 108% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.347826086957 0.374372842146 93% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.222826086957 0.287516216867 78% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.125 0.187439937562 67% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0679347826087 0.113142543107 60% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.25211089544 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.486413043478 0.539623497131 90% => OK
Word variations: 51.3302746298 53.8517498576 95% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0529801325 146% => OK
Sentence length: 19.3684210526 21.7502111507 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 22.8434392043 49.3711431718 46% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.842105263 132.220823453 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3684210526 21.7502111507 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.578947368421 0.878197800319 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.39072847682 59% => OK
Readability: 41.6510297483 50.5018328374 82% => OK
Elegance: 1.55555555556 1.90840788429 82% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.75902590253 0.549887131256 138% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.151827994339 0.142949733639 106% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0832606162648 0.0787303798458 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.625513201166 0.631733273073 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.112581814308 0.139662658121 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.362945902371 0.266732575781 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11533295361 0.103435571967 112% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.503529928836 0.414875509568 121% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0623467963351 0.0530846634433 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.574531515491 0.40443939384 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0350148148795 0.0528353158467 66% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.26048565121 164% => OK
Positive topic words: 2.0 3.49668874172 57% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 3.62251655629 193% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 3.1766004415 189% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 10.2958057395 146% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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