expedition of Robert Peary
The reading states three main evidence that Robert Peary did reached the North pole in 37 days as he claimed. However, the lecturer disagrees with this and finds these points not comprehensive and untrue.
First of all, the author asserts that the National Geographic Society formed a committee that investigated Peary's records and declared he reached the North Pole. On the other hand, the lecturer challenges this by explaining that the committee were not objective. Most of the people chosen to investigate were Peary's friends that donated money to his expedition. Plus, the investigation only took two days.
Secondly, the reading states that another recent expedition made by Tom Avery was done in less than 37 days. As a matter of fact, Avery used the same dogsled and same number and breeds of dogs. In contrast, the lecturer disputes this by mentioning that although Avery's dogsled were similar, he did not carry as much weight as his food was dropped for him on his way and he did not have to carry it like Peary. Plus, he makes the trek while the weather was much better.
Finally, the reading mentions that Peary took photos of himself on the North Pole. By measuring the shadows in those photographs and calculating the Sun's position in that day, they could prove that he was on the Pole and the measurements were correct. Nevertheless, the lecturer explains that this is not true since the photos were faded and the exact length of shadows could not be measured using those photos. Plus, the camera was a primitive one and it did not take exact photographs.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 62, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'did' requires the base form of the verb: 'reach'
Suggestion: reach
...ree main evidence that Robert Peary did reached the North pole in 37 days as he claimed...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, while, in contrast, as a matter of fact, 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: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1314.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 270.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86666666667 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05360046442 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49739507635 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544444444444 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 397.8 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.1054691519 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.8571428571 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2857142857 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.5 7.06452816374 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
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: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.125596289235 0.272083759551 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0401164315715 0.0996497079465 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0590523468576 0.0662205650399 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0759429296095 0.162205337803 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0456504590646 0.0443174109184 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.