The reading and the lecture are both about the European silver coin. The author of the reading states that the silver coin was brought to North America by European explorers but there is no clear historical evidence about the coin and provides three reasons for support. However, the lecturer says that it is a genuine coin and refutes each of the author's points.
First, the article claims that Maine in North America is far from other sites. The remains are found in eastern Canada where the coin was found but this does not have the clear connection with settlements. However, the lecturer refutes this point by saying that Norhe America traveled to far distances and brought the silver coin frem Norse settelements.
Second, the text conveys that no other coins were found in the canadian sites. Hence, there is no evidence that the Norse brought silver coins to the North American settlements. However, the lecturer opposes this point by saying that the Europeans brought the valuable coins while there are coming from that site and they carried those coins along with them.
Third, after traveling to north America, Norse have understood that silver coins are useless to the North Americans as they did not recognize silver coins as money. Nevertheless, the lecturer says that north Americans usually like attractive objects and as these are more beautiful they can use them in Necklaces and other jewelry. Hence, they wanted to trade with the Norse.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, third, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1223.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0329218107 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.27161239338 2.5805825403 88% => OK
Unique words: 119.0 145.348785872 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.489711934156 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 369.0 419.366225166 88% => 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: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
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: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.7011863876 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.916666667 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.25 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.83333333333 7.06452816374 83% => 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: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.555076162555 0.272083759551 204% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.226563367408 0.0996497079465 227% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109121991535 0.0662205650399 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.370975233524 0.162205337803 229% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0442098249047 0.0443174109184 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.42 8.42419426049 88% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 63.6247240618 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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