In this set of materials, the reading passage claims that archaeologists found an ancient silver coin dating to the eleven century which is originally from Europe. They believe that the coin is fake for three possible reasons. However, the lecturer finds all the idea dubious and provides some evidence to support the opinions of other scientists who think it is authentic.
First of all, the article asserts that the coin was located very far from Norse settlement who had the coin in possession which strengthens the theory that there is no connection between the coin and Norse settlement. In contrast, the professor argue that Native American in Maine traveled a lot and they could obtain and bring this coin from one of their voyages to east Canada because there many other objects that came from far places. Hence, the first reason of the passage is not strong enough to dispute the coin.
Furthermore, it is mentioned in the reading that there is no other coin in the Canadian sites that were inhabited by the Norse. On the contrary, the lecturer contends that the Norse took coins back to Europe when they left Canada. It is not reasonable to leave those silver coins for other people so they packed all silver coins. Therefore, no more coin does not show that it is fake.
Finally, the author of passage declares that North American did not recognize silver coin as money so there is no explanation why they seized it. Conversely, the professor states that although it is true they were not aware of the coin value, they were interested in unusual items. Beautiful objects were appealing for Native American because they could use them to produce necklace or other jewelries. This reason can be a good illustration why they traded the coin.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, finally, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, so, then, therefore, in contrast, first of all, it is true, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1461.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 300.0 270.72406181 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43011430915 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 452.7 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6362075022 49.2860985944 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.357142857 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4285714286 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.71428571429 7.06452816374 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.492587837532 0.272083759551 181% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.173162226435 0.0996497079465 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0733268139448 0.0662205650399 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.304343393562 0.162205337803 188% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0750866137853 0.0443174109184 169% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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