The article and lecture debate over accuracy and reliability of Chevalier's memoir. The reading states that Chevalier could have twisted the truth in order to show his life was more adventourous and colorful than it really was and provides three reasons of support. However, professor the opposes the claims made in article by providing contrastig openion for each of the reasons.
First, article posits that Chevalier was not rich as he explainedwhile he was living in switzerland. Infact, he borrowd money from a merchant. However, professor refutes this judgement by saying that borrowing money doesn't mean that person is poor. She states that, when he was in Swisstzerland he spent money for partying and gambling. In order to spend money, he sold his assets and wealth. He ran out of cash while waiting for arrival of money from his sold properties. That is why he took loan from Swiss merchant. This evidence proves that he wasn't necessarily poor when he was in Switzerland.
Second, reading casts doubts upon the accuracy of conversation Chevalier had with Voltaire. However, the professor refutes this claim. According to professor, Chevalier wrote down his conversation with Voltaire each night after their dinning. He kept the conversastion he had written for many years. Later, when he wrote about conversation in memoir, he referred it from notebook.
Third, article states that Chevalier bribed people in prison in oredr to escape and tweaked the truth while writing the memoir. The professor opposes this point by saying that prison had more powerful people than Chevalier and they couldn't ecape by bribing. Moreover, the best evidence from one of the government documents states that sealing of Chevalier's room had to be repaired after his escape. This proves that he actually used the methods he stated in his reading in order to escape from prison. Otherwise, there was no need of sealing repair.
Thus, professor refutes each of the claims made in article and she considers Chevalier's memoir as an accurate and reliable historical source.
- TPO-34 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Educating children is a more difficult task today than it was in the past because they spend so much time on cell phone, online games, and social networking Web site.U 70
- TPO-42 - Independent Writing Task Workers are more satisfied when they have many different types of tasks to do during the workday than when they do similar tasks all day long.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 77
- Playing computer games is a waste of time. Children should not be allowed to play them 71
- Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed. 58
- TOEFL integrated writing: communal online encyclopedia 81
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 217, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...udgement by saying that borrowing money doesnt mean that person is poor. She states th...
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Line 3, column 549, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wasn't
... merchant. This evidence proves that he wasnt necessarily poor when he was in Switzer...
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Line 5, column 169, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...claim. According to professor, Chevalier wrote down his conversation with Voltair...
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Line 7, column 233, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
...powerful people than Chevalier and they couldnt ecape by bribing. Moreover, the best ev...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, however, if, moreover, really, second, so, third, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 22.412803532 196% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1734.0 1373.03311258 126% => OK
No of words: 334.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19161676647 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27500489853 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64863641135 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.511976047904 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 517.5 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 13.0662251656 168% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.2433521975 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.8181818182 110.228320801 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.1818181818 21.698381199 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.54545454545 7.06452816374 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.443205459992 0.272083759551 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.135878876491 0.0996497079465 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0479864340903 0.0662205650399 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.251338080458 0.162205337803 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0568221136475 0.0443174109184 128% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 13.3589403974 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.23 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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