TPO 35

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TPO 35

The reading passage and the lecture are both about the handwritten book “Voynich manuscript,” which was obtained by a bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich. The author of the reading proposed several theories to explain the author of the book. The lecture casts doubt on the claims made in the article. He thinks that all three people mentioned in the article are not the author of the book.
First of all, the author points out one theory that the manuscript is a genuine work on some scientific or magical subject composed in a complex secret code. It is mentioned that Anthony Ascham might be the author because many plants illustrate similar to those are mentioned in his book “A Little Herbal”. The lecturer challenged this point. He says Anthony Ascham was an ordinary physician and scientist. His book did not contain original ideas. In fact, in his A Little Herbal book , he described common plants based on other sources. Therefore, Anthony seems unlikely the author of the manuscrip.
Second, the author contends another theory that the manuscript is really a fake and its text has no real meaning. The article elaborates that the manuscript was created by Edwad Kelly, who created the manuscript as a fake magival book to sell to a wealthy nobe. The lecturer rebuts this argument. He suggests that it is unlikely that Edward has created the fake book for money because in sixteen-century, it was easy to fool people. Kelly did not have to put so much effort to create this manucript.
Finally, the author states another theory is that the manuscript is actually a modern fake created by Wilfrid M. Voynich himself. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that the manuscipt was dated 400 years old and it is possible that Wilfrid might used vallum from other sources, but it is impossible to get the ink. So this evidence ruled out that Wilfrid is the author.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 97, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , &apos
...andwritten book 'Voynich manuscript,' which was obtained by a bookseller Wil...
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Line 1, column 247, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ries to explain the author of the book. The lecture casts doubt on the claims made ...
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Line 2, column 466, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...did not contain original ideas. In fact, in his A Little Herbal book , he describ...
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Line 2, column 495, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...s. In fact, in his A Little Herbal book , he described common plants based on oth...
^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, if, really, second, so, therefore, in fact, first of all, 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: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1567.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 320.0 270.72406181 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.896875 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22948505376 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64599156057 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528125 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 482.4 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
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: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.534935871 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.4736842105 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8421052632 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.57894736842 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0 0.272083759551 0% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0 0.0996497079465 0% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0 0.162205337803 0% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => 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: 10.1 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.84 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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