According to the reading passage, three names are proposed as the potential authors of the Voynich manuscript, a weird and mysterious book written on vellum that looks like 16th century's books. However, the listening passage disagrees with the ideas put forward in the reading passage.
In the line with the author's attitude, Anthony Ascham could be the writer of the manuscript and because of that the manuscript could be a scientific subject hidden in the codes. In contrast, the lecturer rejects the claim raised in the reading passage and sets out some information about the Ascham's inferior jobs and books back then which crosses his name out as a possible candidate for such powerful manuscript.
Moreover, the writer believes that this manuscript is without meaning or is fake, and Edward Kelley wrote it to took money from rich people by pretending that the manuscript was so magical. On the other hand, the speaker argues that, 400 years ago, the general knowledge of the people was low and there was no need for a delinquent to put lots of efforts on writing such an amazing manuscript. Building upon this fact, this theory is also off the table.
Furthermore, the lecturer calls into question the point presented by the writer that, Wilfird Voynich himself wrote the manuscript in order to gain some respect and reputation. Ironically, on the basis of the speaker's assert, one could see that, the vellum and the ink used in the manuscript are aged about 400 years that makes it impossible for the Voynich to create the book.
As a recap, although the reading passage provides some evidence to support the idea that whether Ascham, Kelley or Voynich are the possible authors of a found enigmatic manuscript resorting to some theories, the listening passage challenges these indications and opposes this conclusion.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 22, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... reading passage. In the line with the authors attitude, Anthony Ascham could be the w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, however, if, look, moreover, so, then, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1528.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 303.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04290429043 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57877237981 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557755775578 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 461.7 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 30.0 21.2450331126 141% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 61.9184140624 49.2860985944 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 152.8 110.228320801 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.3 21.698381199 140% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.8 7.06452816374 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.0152707476305 0.272083759551 6% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00609722954552 0.0996497079465 6% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0182916886365 0.0662205650399 28% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.00736015148456 0.162205337803 5% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0147203029691 0.0443174109184 33% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 13.3589403974 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 53.8541721854 92% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.498013245 133% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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