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Burning Mirror
Regarding the reading, there are three reasons proposed to support that "burning mirror", an ingenious weapon by which Greeks fired Roman’s ships, was just a kind of myth. In contrast, the professor refutes all of the author's reasons based on three concrete pieces of evidences.
First, that the ancient Greeks were not technologically advanced, based on what the reading claims, is refuted by the professor. She mentions that not only did they use dozens of pieces of the sheets, but also they had the advanced knowledge in the mathematics. In fact, this skill let them assemble such pieces tog...
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Score: 28 in 30
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 12
No. of Words: 253 250
No. of Characters: 1218 1200
No. of Different Words: 144 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.988 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.814 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.32 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 57 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 36 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 20 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.083 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.991 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.349 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.594 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.097 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4