The lecture and the reading are both about the painting called "Portrait of an Elderly woman". The author of the reading believes that the painting was not done by Rembrandt. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article and she thinks the opposite by providing three supporting details for her claim.
First of all, the article points out that there was some mismatch in the clothing in the portrait which was unusual in Rembrandt painting. The lecturer is challenged by this point. She says that X-rays of the fur collar reveals that the original clothing was consistent with the white linen cap. Furthermore, she says that the fur collar was added by someone to increase the value of the painting.
Secondly, the author contends that the painting was missing light and shadow effect which was unique to Rembrandt. The lecturer rebuts this argument. She confirms that the original fur collar had single light coloured effect with a realistic effect that one can expect from Rembrandt painting.
Finally, the article states that the panel around the painting was made from numerous pieces of woods that stuck together. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that while adding the fur collar, they enlarged the painting in order to look more grandeur and valuable. So, these woods were added later on. However, the original wood was from the same tree that Rembrandt painted his self-portrait
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Universities should require every graduating students to take public speaking courses. Give specific examples and details to support your answer. 76
- It is more important to keep your old friends than to make new friends. 70
- In some countries today young people are less respectful and polite to others What could be the reasons behind such behaviour What can be done about it 90
- Some people say that artists should be financially supported by the governments of their countries. However others believe that there are other choices that can be made. Do you agree or disagree? 93
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends. 76
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 186, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...the painting was not done by Rembrandt. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
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Line 5, column 104, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ht and shadow effect which was unique to Rembrandt. The lecturer rebuts this argu...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, look, second, secondly, so, while, first of all, on the other hand
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 : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1193.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 235.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07659574468 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91531732006 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44072880195 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 128.0 145.348785872 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.544680851064 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 342.9 419.366225166 82% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.0177858484 49.2860985944 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.2142857143 110.228320801 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.7857142857 21.698381199 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.78571428571 7.06452816374 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.404152805475 0.272083759551 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.140021031873 0.0996497079465 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0977497452911 0.0662205650399 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.244052433062 0.162205337803 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0617486985766 0.0443174109184 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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