TPO-44 - Integrated Writing Task
In 1957 a European silver coin dating to the eleventh century was discovered at a Native American archaeological site in the state of Maine in the United States. Many people believed the coin had been originally brought to North America by European explorers known as the Norse, who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and came into contact with Native Americans almost a thousand years ago.
However, some archaeologists believe that the coin is not a genuine piece of historical evidence but a historical fake; they think that the coin was placed at the site recently by someone who wanted to mislead the public. There are three main reasons why some archaeologists believe that the coin is not genuine historical evidence.
Great Distance from Norse Settlements
First, the Native American site in Maine where the coin was discovered is located very far from other sites documenting a Norse presence in North America. Remains of Norse settlements have been discovered in far eastern Canada. The distance between the Maine site and the Norse settlements in Canada is more than a thousand kilometers, suggesting the coin has no real connection with the settlements.
No Other Coins Found
A second problem is that no other coins have been found at the Canadian sites that were inhabited by the Norse. This suggests that the Norse did not bring any silver coins with them to their North American settlements.
Third, the Norse who traveled to North America would have understood that silver coins would most likely be useless to them. Sitver coins may have been in wide use in Europe at the time, but the Norse, as experienced explorers, would have known that native North Americans did not recognize silver coins as money.
The passage states that an antiquated european silver coin was unearthed at native american archeological sites and it is related to european explorers called the norse. However, archeologists believe that it is a fake historical evidence by providing three reasons. On the other hand, the lecturer claims that it is genuine and refutes each of the reasons.
First, the article explains that the settlement of the norse was very remote to that region but the professor rejects this reason by saying that the distance is completely reachable for the people because they could travel long distances and in addition there are other similar objects which are from outlying regions.
Second, the passage states that no other similar coin has been founded in the norse residential place. The lecturer challenges this reason and said, residence of the norse in Canada was not permanent and they came back to the Europe so it is possible that they gathered and took their valuable stuff with themselves.
Third, the passage avers that silver coins were useless in America and taking these coins to that continent by the experienced explorers such as the norse is not reasonable. The professor refutes this explanation and said that american were interested in valuable and unusual objects for ornamental aims thus it is likely that the norse utilized theses coins for trading purposes.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, second, so, third, thus, in addition, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 19.0 30.3222958057 63% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1163.0 1373.03311258 85% => OK
No of words: 224.0 270.72406181 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19196428571 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86867284054 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56583826235 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 129.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.575892857143 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 367.2 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 72.0701698 49.2860985944 146% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.375 110.228320801 132% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.0 21.698381199 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.625 7.06452816374 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.400636104225 0.272083759551 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.160954370571 0.0996497079465 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0932258886272 0.0662205650399 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215552604892 0.162205337803 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0598793559292 0.0443174109184 135% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 13.3589403974 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 53.8541721854 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.18 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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