TPO30 integrated
The author in the reading passage holds that the story of the burning mirror used in the Roman-Greek navy war is just a myth, while the lecturer in the lecture expresses an opposite view.
To begin with, the author claims that the ancient Greek did not have the technological ability to build such a large parabolic copper mirror. However, the lecturer refutes that it could be consist of many small sheets of copper. Experiment has proved the possibility that we can make small individual parts of polished copper and then arrange them into parabolic shape. This method was practical to ancient Greek because the mathematicians knew the properties of parabolic curvature. Therefore, they had no problem in dissembling the mirror into small pieces, producing each single part and using them to form a large sheet.
Moreover, the author believes that it would have taken a long period of time to set the ships on fire through the burning mirror. On the contrary, the lecturer rebuts that the experiment mentioned in the reading section makes a false presumption by assuming that the ships was made of pure wood. It is true that we need up to ten minutes to set a wooden ship on fire, but there were also other materials adopted in the ancient ships. Pitch, for example, was a kind of seal to create a waterproof layer for the boat, which can catch fire in a few seconds. Once the pitch is on fire, it spread to the whole ship quickly even it is on moving. So, the burning mirror is an effective weapon.
Finally, the author puts forward that the burning mirror has nothing similar to the flaming arrows, which is a common weapon in Greek. Instead, the lecturer retorts that it is that unfamiliarity that brings the winning to the Greeks. If the Roman were familiar with the attacking approach such as the flaming arrows, they would watch it carefully and get ready to defense. Yet the Sun’s rays reflected by the mirror are invisible, which can cause the fire so suddenly that enemy could not put it out. As a result, the burning mirror can be a better weapon than flaming arrows to deliver an unexpected attack.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 63, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...elieves that it would have taken a long period of time to set the ships on fire through the bu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, moreover, second, so, then, therefore, while, for example, kind of, such as, as a result, it is true, on the contrary, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1757.0 1373.03311258 128% => OK
No of words: 371.0 270.72406181 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.7358490566 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38877662729 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46604361338 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 145.348785872 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544474393531 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 541.8 419.366225166 129% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.8340202345 49.2860985944 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.352941176 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8235294118 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.70588235294 7.06452816374 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.490972232331 0.272083759551 180% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.144163740305 0.0996497079465 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104996198687 0.0662205650399 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.260958954866 0.162205337803 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0707891846433 0.0443174109184 160% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => 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: 10.21 12.2367328918 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 63.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.0 Out of 30
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