The reading passage and the lecture are both about the possible author of a handwritten manuscript, which was written in total different script. The book was found acquired by Wilfrid Voynich, a book seller. The author feels that there are three probable writers of the Voyenich manuscript. The lecturer challenges each of the possibilities made by the author. He is of the opinion that none of the persons mentioned in the passage is original writer of the manuscript.
To begin with, the author says that the manuscript could be written by Anthony Ascham, a botanist, and physician. It is mentioned in the passage that the manuscript is about some scientific research. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that Ascham was an ordinary physicist and cannot write a complex book like Voynich manuscript. Moreover, the plant illustrations were common and could be found in any general book.
Secondly, the author suggests that Edward Kelley, a magician cum tricker might be the writer of the manuscript. The author, in the passage, mentions that Kelley used a random fake script and sold that book to some wealthy people in the guise of a magical book. The lecturer, however, rejects this point by saying that it was easy to fool people at that time by using a simple book, why would someone write a complex book like Voynich manuscript for that purpose?
Finally, the author contents that Vonich himself had written this book to sell in as a mysterious book in high price. Also, he had knowledge about old books too. The lecturer casts doubt on this point by saying that the ink on the manuscript was found to be 400 years old, way earlier than Voynich. He claims that even if Voynich managed to get vellum but how could he manage to get 400 years old ink?
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 209, 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.
...ired by Wilfrid Voynich, a book seller. The author feels that there are three proba...
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ble writers of the Voyenich manuscript. The lecturer challenges each of the possibi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1486.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 308.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82467532468 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.532251073 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522727272727 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 440.1 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.197266157 49.2860985944 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.4117647059 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1176470588 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.58823529412 7.06452816374 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.26836475099 0.272083759551 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0879238746577 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0662863601388 0.0662205650399 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171855770943 0.162205337803 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.022103647801 0.0443174109184 50% => 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: 10.3 13.3589403974 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 53.8541721854 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 11.0289183223 72% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.38 12.2367328918 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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