TPO30 integrated writing
The reading and listening materials have a conflict of opinions about whether the burning mirror was a weapon of ancient Greeks. The passage believes that the Greeks never builit the burning mirror, which is contradicted by the following lecture.
For starters, the author claims that ancient Greeks could not invent such a device due to technological limitation while the professor views this issue from an opposite angle. According to her, ancient Greeks did not need to form a large sheet of cooper to make a large burning mirror. Besides, the mathematicians knew the properties of parabola, thus, they were able to assemble the small pieces into a parabolic mirror.
In addition, the writer argues that it takes a long period to burn the ship by mirrors. However, the speaker opposes this argument by saying that there are other materials involved in the ship, such as pitch. In other words, the pitch is more likely to be set up on fire, almost in one second. In this situation, the fire would spread to the wood, even if the ship was moving.
Finally, the writer states that ancient Greeks stand a better chance to use flaming arrows. By contrast, in accordance with the writer, this opinion does not hold water. In fact, the Roman soldiers were familiar with the flaming arrows instead of burning mirrors and were ready to put out fires caused by flaming arrows, thus decreasing the effectiveness of those weapons. However, Roman soldiers could not see the burning rays of the mirror, which means it would be more effective to use a burning mirror to cause fire in unobserved places surprisingly during the battle.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, finally, however, if, second, so, thus, while, in addition, in fact, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1356.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 275.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93090909091 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49618287103 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.596363636364 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 410.4 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.8470022538 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.307692308 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1538461538 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.76923076923 7.06452816374 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.46185911665 0.272083759551 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.140355316746 0.0996497079465 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0711400943412 0.0662205650399 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.250201860951 0.162205337803 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0507221095762 0.0443174109184 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => 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: 11.31 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => 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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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