The reading and the lecture are both about discovered silver coin in the state of Maine in the United States. The author believes that the coin is fake and someone has replaced the genuine coin by a fake one to mislead the public. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. She thinks that the coin is not fake and it is probable that Norse has brought it to the United States.
First of all, the author claims that there has been a long distance between the site coin discovered and the place that the Norse used to stay. This point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that some other historical objects have also been discovered in such distance, hence, the existence of coin in such far distance is not any problem at all.
Secondly, the author states that since no other coins have been discovered at the site, the Norse have not brought any coins with themselves. This argument is rebutted by the lecturer. She suggests that it is not necessarily true. The Norse could have been there for a while and then have packed up their stuff to return to their original place. Thus, it is meaningful if there are no other coins there.
Finally, the author mentions that the Norse might have known that the silver coins might have been useless for them in America while they have been used in trades in Europe. Therefore, bringing silver coins to the Unites States is not justifiable. The lecturer, on the other hand, feels that although American people did not use silver coins as money, they could have been appealed by the beauty of silver coins. American people were able to use them in constructing jewelry, e.g. necklace. In addition, they could have used silver coins in their trades and exchanged them with something else needed.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 232, 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.
...in by a fake one to mislead the public. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, e.g., finally, first, hence, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, while, in addition, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1452.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 311.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.66881028939 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.2270450223 2.5805825403 86% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456591639871 0.540411800872 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 452.7 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
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: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.6618018544 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.4117647059 110.228320801 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2941176471 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.23529411765 7.06452816374 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.546392756295 0.272083759551 201% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.17574251691 0.0996497079465 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11594614959 0.0662205650399 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.342379804227 0.162205337803 211% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0344625573927 0.0443174109184 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.3589403974 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.81 12.2367328918 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.97 8.42419426049 83% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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