The reading and the lecture are both about a painting called Portrait of an Elder Woman in a White Bonnet from Rembrandt. The author of the reading feels that the painting was not Rembrandt's work. The lecturer casts doubt the claims made by the author. She is of opinion that the painting is in fact Renbrandt's work.
To begin with, the author argues that this piece of art's style is conflicting with other Rembrandt's works. The article mentions that the woman on the painting has a servant's cap while wearing a lavish dark fur collar. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims recent examination using x-ray shows that dark fur collar was added on top one hundred years later by someone. Additionally, she says someone probably added the dark fur collar to increase its value.
Secondly, the writer suggests the piece's light and shadow were not proper. In the article, it is said that Rembrandt was an expert of light and shadow painting. The lecturer, however, rebuts that by mentioning the painting's light and shadow correctly reflected the light. She elaborates on this by bringing up the point that when the added dark fur collar was removed, the woman on the painting is wearing a plain white cloth collar. She notes that the plain white cloth collar was reflecting light accurately.
Finally, the author posits that Rembrandt painted frequently on wood panels. Moreover, it is stated in the article that the painting was painted on a panel made from a number of pieces of wood. In contrast, the lecturer's position is that after investigation of the wood panels, they found some woods Rembrandt used. She notes that when the dark fur collar was added additional woods were added to make it more impressive.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 198, 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.
...t the painting was not Rembrandts work. The lecturer casts doubt the claims made by...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, while, in contrast, in fact, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1451.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 296.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90202702703 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46101589822 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493243243243 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 423.9 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.5233346566 49.2860985944 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 80.6111111111 110.228320801 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4444444444 21.698381199 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.61111111111 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.27373068433 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239641759541 0.272083759551 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0880990079824 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0815580218791 0.0662205650399 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16593833924 0.162205337803 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0893355485996 0.0443174109184 202% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 13.3589403974 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 72.16 53.8541721854 134% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 11.0289183223 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.84 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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