Both the reading passage and the lecture focuses on a European silver coin and its validity of it being a genuine piece of historical evidence. While, the author argues that the coin is actually a historical fake which must have been placed at the site recently by someone in order to make people confused, the lecture refutes the points made in the passage by giving logical reasons to prove its originality.
First of all, the author asserts that the coin is fake as the site where it was discovered, i.e., Maine, is situated very far away from other places like eastern Canada where remains of Norse settlements have been discovered. On the other hand, the professor contradicts this statement by saying that the Native Americans were interested in obtaining objects from far away places. They must have traveled long distances to arrive at the original sites of Norse settlements and brought this coin to Maine with them.
Secondly, according to the author, the Norse did not bring any silver coins with them to North America as no other coins have been found at the Canadian sites of Norse settlements. So, he avers that the coin is certainly fake. But, the professors questions the credibility of this statement by putting forward the idea that the Norse did not create permanent settlements in North America. Thus, they must have packed all their belongings with the return journeys and this clearly explains that they must also have took back all the silver coins they brought.
Finally, it is insisted by the author that, since the Norse were experienced travelers, they must have understood that the silver coins would be useless to the North Americans and so they did not bring any coins with them. This point is ruled out by the fact mentioned in the lecture that Native Americans, by nature, were attracted towards interesting and unusual objects. So, they must have found the silver coins to be very beautiful and used them for making jewellery or even in carrying out trade with people.
Thus, the assumptions made by the author about the coin being a fake piece of evidence were contrasted by the logical reasons put forward in the lecture.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 515, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'taken'.
Suggestion: taken
...early explains that they must also have took back all the silver coins they brought....
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, thus, well, while, 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: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1801.0 1373.03311258 131% => OK
No of words: 368.0 270.72406181 136% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89402173913 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37987740619 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42539771016 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 145.348785872 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491847826087 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 561.6 419.366225166 134% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 51.2363129364 49.2860985944 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.538461538 110.228320801 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.3076923077 21.698381199 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.69230769231 7.06452816374 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.554744483078 0.272083759551 204% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.211162280088 0.0996497079465 212% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.135707673196 0.0662205650399 205% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.301810489063 0.162205337803 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.121218512041 0.0443174109184 274% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 53.8541721854 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 10.7273730684 172% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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