TPO-33 - Integrated Writing Task Carved stone balls are a curious type of artifact found at a number of locations in Scotland. They date from the late Neolithic period, around 4,000 years ago. They are round in shape; they were carved from several types o

One of the challengeable discovery in Scotland is about carved stone balls. The main purpose of them is remained a mystery yet but archaeologists are trying to demystify it.The reading presents some claims about the purpose of carved stone balls. In the lecture the professor, however, believes none of the reading's reasons are convincing.

First, the reading explains these carved stone balls was used in fighting or hunting. the professor states that it could not be one of its application. Because their surfaces were not proper to this goal and they were cracked easily.

Moreover, in contrary to the statement in the reading that carved stone balls were used to weighting system, the professor contends that although these stones were uniform but they had different density. In other words, there were different types of carved stone balls and they were diverse in density. For example, some carved stone balls had the same size but they were not same in weight so they could not be reliable criteria for weighing or measurement.

Finally, the reading demonstrates that carved stone balls shown social status of their owners and emphasized that their owners were the important person in the society. Nevertheless, the professor clarifies that it can not be in the account. Due to some carved stone balls had integrated pattern and some of the had simple pattern, it did not show anything about their owners.

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Average: 8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 174, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...chaeologists are trying to demystify it.The reading presents some claims about the ...
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Line 3, column 87, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
... balls was used in fighting or hunting. the professor states that it could not be o...
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Line 5, column 377, Rule ID: ADJECTIVE_IN_ATTRIBUTE[1]
Message: A more concise phrase may lose no meaning and sound more powerful.
Suggestion: same
...lls had the same size but they were not same in weight so they could not be reliable criteria ...
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Line 7, column 301, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
... stone balls had integrated pattern and some of the had simple pattern, it did not show any...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'nevertheless', 'so', 'for example', 'in other words']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.250980392157 0.261695866417 96% => OK
Verbs: 0.192156862745 0.158904122519 121% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0627450980392 0.0723426182421 87% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0470588235294 0.0435111971325 108% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0549019607843 0.0277247811725 198% => OK
Prepositions: 0.121568627451 0.128828473217 94% => OK
Participles: 0.0666666666667 0.0370669169778 180% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.54688396187 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0196078431373 0.0208969081088 94% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.101960784314 0.128158765124 80% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0117647058824 0.0158828679856 74% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00392156862745 0.0114777025283 34% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1419.0 1645.83664459 86% => OK
No of words: 233.0 271.125827815 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.09012875536 6.08160592843 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.90696013833 4.04852973271 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.377682403433 0.374372842146 101% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.270386266094 0.287516216867 94% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.197424892704 0.187439937562 105% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0944206008584 0.113142543107 83% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54688396187 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 145.348785872 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.502145922747 0.539623497131 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 45.8059653388 53.8517498576 85% => OK
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0529801325 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.4166666667 21.7502111507 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.0656157422 49.3711431718 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.25 132.220823453 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4166666667 21.7502111507 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.833333333333 0.878197800319 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 3.39072847682 118% => OK
Readability: 46.4552932761 50.5018328374 92% => OK
Elegance: 1.49333333333 1.90840788429 78% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.708799996289 0.549887131256 129% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.147225763642 0.142949733639 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0882210455277 0.0787303798458 112% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.624594865744 0.631733273073 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.113060927104 0.139662658121 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.338760808649 0.266732575781 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101128121045 0.103435571967 98% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.374484804717 0.414875509568 90% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0706881499257 0.0530846634433 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.514834659492 0.40443939384 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.049674013863 0.0528353158467 94% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.26048565121 164% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 3.49668874172 86% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.62251655629 28% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 7.0 3.1766004415 220% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 10.2958057395 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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