The reading and the lecture are both about a copper cylinder discovered many years ago in Iraq. While the author of the reading passage argues that the vessels were not used as electric batteries in ancient times, the professor disputes this claim. She states that the reasons argued in the readings are not convincing. The lecturer casts doubt on the main points made in the text by providing three controversial reasons.
In the reading, the writer begins by saying that there were no metal wires attached to these vessels; however, if the vessels were used as batteries, they would have been attached to some electricity conductors, such as metal wires. On the contrary, the professor disagrees with this idea. She asserts that these vessels were found by local people, not trained archaeologists. They could have found other materials near the vessels but overlooked them or thrown them away.
Furthermore, according to the reading passage, these copper cylinders were mainly used to preserve and maintain sacred texts, not for other uses, such as generating electricity. On the other hand, the professor points out that although these vessels are similar to those used to preserve texts and originally were used to maintain texts, later discoveries showed that these vessels were adapted for other purposes, for example, for generating electricity.
Finally, the author believes that since ancient people did not have any device that relied on electricity, they did not need electricity. Not surprisingly, the lecturer refutes this assertion by contending that ancient people would use electricity for other purposes. For instance, some of them used it to show others that they had magical power because the batteries they used could produce weak shocks. Also, doctors might have used electricity for the healing process of some patients. They applied electricity to their damaged muscles to stimulate them.
To sum up, both the author and the lecturer hold conflicting views on whether discovered vessels were used to generate electricity in ancient times.
- Nowadays people are more willing to help the people who they don t know For example giving food and clothes to the people who need them than they were in the past 90
- Which of the following is the most effective way for parents to get children aged 3 6 ready for the start of the school Providing appropriate books for children to learn how to read Reading books aloud for children Improving children s communication skill 73
- 72 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Grades marks encourage students to learn Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion
- Animal fossils usually provide very little opportunity to study the actual animal tissues because in fossils the animals living tissues have been largely replaced by minerals Thus scientists were very excited recently when it appeared that a 70 millio 10
- Humans have long been fascinated by elephants the largest land animal in the modern world Social animals that live in herds elephants are native to both Africa and Asia Their large ears long trunk and long life span have made elephants one of the mo 78
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, however, if, look, so, while, for example, for instance, such as, on the contrary, to sum up, 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: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1747.0 1373.03311258 127% => OK
No of words: 328.0 270.72406181 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.3262195122 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63058525945 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521341463415 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 543.6 419.366225166 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.8055256226 49.2860985944 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.1875 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06452816374 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less 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: 0.0815414147081 0.272083759551 30% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.031209901379 0.0996497079465 31% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0419814818652 0.0662205650399 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0526996077018 0.162205337803 32% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0286441200332 0.0443174109184 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.3589403974 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 53.8541721854 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 63.6247240618 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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