Summarise the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they case doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
The reading and the lecture are both about the burning mirror. The author of the reading feels that the burning mirrors are just a myth because of three reasons. While the lecturer challenges the ideas that made by the author by providing opposite claims. She is of the opinion that the burning mirror was an accurate war weapon which was used during the ancient times by Greeks.
To begin with, the author argues that the ancient Greeks were not advanced enough technologically to invent a vast mirror that was accurate enough to make a ship ignite by focusing the sunrays on a specific point. The article mentions that the Greeks did not achieve that level of sophistication to manufacture such an accurate and complex weapon. The lecturer challenged this specific argument. She claims that the vast mirror was made of a thousand pieces of copper metal plates, which made it possible for Greeks in ancient times to achieve their aim.
Secondly, the writer suggests that even if they could create such an immense mirror, it took a while to trigger the fire. In the article, it is said that it almost took ten minutes to onset the burning of an object, which was only 30 meters away from the mirror. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that the estimated time in the article was for wooden ships. She elaborates on this by bringing up that ships could have been made of another material during that time, such as pitch. With which, the flames could have started immediately even if the object was moving.
Finally, The author posits that the burning mirrors do not seem like an improvement on a weapon that Greeks already had. Moreover, in the article, it is stated that the flaming arrows were an efficient way of flaming the enemy's ships. Therefore, there was no need for them to invent a novel way to do that. In contrast, the lecturer position is that they had different usages. She notes that the burning arrows were an obvious way of attack because the flames were evident from the source for enemies; on the contrary, the burning mirror only seemed an immense mirror, and the shipmen did not find that they are under attack of fire until the flames were initiated. In conclusion, burning mirrors were much sufficient than flaming arrows.
- When teachers assign projects on which students must work together the students learn much more effectively than when they are asked to work alone on projects 80
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more enjoyable to have a job where you work only three days a week for long hours than to have a job where you work five days a week for shorter hours Use specific reasons and examples to support 83
- ummarise the points made in the lecture being sure to explain how they case doubt on specific points made in the reading passage 80
- Summarise the points made in the lecture being sure to explain how they case doubt on specific points made in the reading passage 73
- When teachers assign projects on which students must work together the students learn much more effectively than when they are asked to work alone on projects 80
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 163, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...e just a myth because of three reasons. While the lecturer challenges the ideas that ...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, as for, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, on the contrary, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 10.4613686534 210% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 24.0 12.0772626932 199% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 22.412803532 165% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1877.0 1373.03311258 137% => OK
No of words: 392.0 270.72406181 145% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.78826530612 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44960558625 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34575030911 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 145.348785872 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474489795918 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 580.5 419.366225166 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.0005288315 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.7894736842 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6315789474 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.06452816374 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.101248506964 0.272083759551 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0402275257818 0.0996497079465 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0466486631179 0.0662205650399 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0724051046346 0.162205337803 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0434200536163 0.0443174109184 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 163, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...e just a myth because of three reasons. While the lecturer challenges the ideas that ...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, as for, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, on the contrary, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 10.4613686534 210% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 24.0 12.0772626932 199% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 22.412803532 165% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1877.0 1373.03311258 137% => OK
No of words: 392.0 270.72406181 145% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.78826530612 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44960558625 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34575030911 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 145.348785872 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474489795918 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 580.5 419.366225166 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.0005288315 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.7894736842 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6315789474 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.06452816374 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.101248506964 0.272083759551 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0402275257818 0.0996497079465 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0466486631179 0.0662205650399 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0724051046346 0.162205337803 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0434200536163 0.0443174109184 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
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.