TPO-44 - Integrated Writing Task
In 1957 a European silver coin dating to the eleventh century was discovered at a Native American archaeological site in the state of Maine in the United States. Many people believed the coin had been originally brought to North America by European explorers known as the Norse, who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and came into contact with Native Americans almost a thousand years ago.
However, some archaeologists believe that the coin is not a genuine piece of historical evidence but a historical fake; they think that the coin was placed at the site recently by someone who wanted to mislead the public. There are three main reasons why some archaeologists believe that the coin is not genuine historical evidence.
Great Distance from Norse Settlements
First, the Native American site in Maine where the coin was discovered is located very far from other sites documenting a Norse presence in North America. Remains of Norse settlements have been discovered in far eastern Canada. The distance between the Maine site and the Norse settlements in Canada is more than a thousand kilometers, suggesting the coin has no real connection with the settlements.
No Other Coins Found
A second problem is that no other coins have been found at the Canadian sites that were inhabited by the Norse. This suggests that the Norse did not bring any silver coins with them to their North American settlements.
Third, the Norse who traveled to North America would have understood that silver coins would most likely be useless to them. Sitver coins may have been in wide use in Europe at the time, but the Norse, as experienced explorers, would have known that native North Americans did not recognize silver coins as money.
there has been found a European silver coin in maine, in the United states, which is believed to be brought by the norse, an explorer community. according to the text, this can be a mislead for several reasons. professor opposes it and claims there are many clues to believe it's true.
First, the matter of distance. In canada, norse presence is documented,and maine is far for more than one thousand kilometers. but professor says that native americans traveled great distances, as they were nomadic tribes. So it's possible that some tribes reached canada, and brought the coin to maine.
Second, text clarifies that no other coin was found, suggesting norse didn't bring any coins with them. On the other hand, there is a big chance that norse brought many valuables along with silver coins, and took them back to europe, according to the professor.
Third, silver coins were used as a currency in europe, but they weren't recognized by everyone that time, and the norse would know this, mentions the text. professor states that they would be useful as native americans valued jewelries.
The contradiction between professor and the text seems to be remaining for some more time.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, second, so, third, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 18.0 30.3222958057 59% => More preposition wanted.
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: 996.0 1373.03311258 73% => OK
No of words: 198.0 270.72406181 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0303030303 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.75116612262 4.04702891845 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46313498942 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.626262626263 0.540411800872 116% => OK
syllable_count: 301.5 419.366225166 72% => 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: 3.0 8.23620309051 36% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.51434878587 396% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.3340978513 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.0 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5 21.698381199 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.33333333333 7.06452816374 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 4.19205298013 239% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.387235357417 0.272083759551 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128273462448 0.0996497079465 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0986017077732 0.0662205650399 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.19878163245 0.162205337803 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0839687702634 0.0443174109184 189% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 13.3589403974 79% => 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: 11.6 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.46 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 38.0 63.6247240618 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.