Both reading and lecture are about burning mirror which is a polished copper surface used by Greek to attack back the Roman Navy. The author of the reading believes that this burning mirror is just a myth and provided three reasons of support. While the lecturer counter act this opinion. She says that such a weapon was really used with the Greek people.
First, the author points out that making such mirror needs advanced technology, which was not available at this old time. The article notes that mirror which can focus the sun ray's and turn it into a burning power needs to be made in special shape called parabola, also needs to be very wide. Making such a device was really hard on the old age with little advanced technology and science. The lecturer challenges these point. She says that this isn't hard for Greek people with such a great history and civilization.
Second, the author contends that such a mirror will take long time to burn an object. The author mentions an experiment to illustrate his point. In the experiment they focus the sun's rays on an wooden object thirty meter away. It took ten minutes to start the burning process while the object is stable and not moving, which is not applicable for the Roman ships. On contrary the lecturer doesn't agree. She says that It wouldn't take such a long time to burn a ship. She further elaborates that the ships are made of wood and another material called pitch used to stabilize and attache wood blanks together and in same time works as water proof. This material is flammable, which means it can catch fire in seconds then spread the fire to the wood parts of the ship.
Third, the author says that burning mirror is not an improvement in comparison to the flaming arrows used by Greek as well. Flaming arrows appear to be more effective as it will not take such long time and can be applied from longer distance. On the other side, the lecturer is totally against this opinion, She mentions that the roman were on knowledge by the flaming arrows and they can see it while it comes to target their ships. While they can't determine exactly where the burning mirror action will take place. So it turns to be kind of surprising to them. They will not have time or equipment to avoid that. This turns the burning mirror to be more effective.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 183, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...f the reading believes that this burning mirror is just a myth and provided three...
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Line 1, column 246, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... and provided three reasons of support. While the lecturer counter act this opinion. ...
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Line 2, column 61, Rule ID: NEEDS_FIXED[1]
Message: "needs advanced" is only accepted in certain dialects. For something more widely acceptable, try 'advancing' or 'to be advanced'.
Suggestion: advancing; to be advanced
...oints out that making such mirror needs advanced technology, which was not available at ...
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Line 2, column 215, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'need'?
Suggestion: need
...n rays and turn it into a burning power needs to be made in special shape called para...
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Line 2, column 447, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...llenges these point. She says that this isnt hard for Greek people with such a great...
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Line 3, column 9, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...reat history and civilization. Second, the author contends that such a mirror ...
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Line 3, column 35, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ion. Second, the author contends that such a mirror will take long time to bur...
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Line 3, column 194, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
... experiment they focus the suns rays on an wooden object thirty meter away. It too...
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Line 3, column 218, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'meter' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'meters'.
Suggestion: meters
...he suns rays on an wooden object thirty meter away. It took ten minutes to start the ...
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Line 3, column 392, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...e Roman ships. On contrary the lecturer doesnt agree. She says that It wouldnt take su...
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Line 3, column 423, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...lecturer doesnt agree. She says that It wouldnt take such a long time to burn a ship. ...
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Line 3, column 455, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...that It wouldnt take such a long time to burn a ship. She further elaborates that...
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Line 3, column 636, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled as one.
Suggestion: waterproof
...anks together and in same time works as water proof. This material is flammable, which mean...
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Line 4, column 434, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...t while it comes to target their ships. While they cant determine exactly where the b...
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Line 4, column 445, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...comes to target their ships. While they cant determine exactly where the burning mir...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, really, second, so, then, third, well, while, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 22.412803532 174% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1898.0 1373.03311258 138% => OK
No of words: 414.0 270.72406181 153% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.5845410628 5.08290768461 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51076378781 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.16106779332 2.5805825403 84% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468599033816 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 580.5 419.366225166 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 13.0662251656 184% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.1363889929 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.0833333333 110.228320801 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.25 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.75 7.06452816374 39% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 15.0 4.19205298013 358% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.396953507333 0.272083759551 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111761104091 0.0996497079465 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0692166975193 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.245207604385 0.162205337803 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0161662857241 0.0443174109184 36% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.8 13.3589403974 66% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 53.8541721854 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.99 12.2367328918 73% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.11 8.42419426049 84% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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