The reading proposes three reasons to confirm that the vessel found in an archaeological site in Iraq is not an electrical battery. The lecturer, however, casts doubt on the claim made by the author of the article. First, the author believes that a battery should have some wires, but no metal wires were found near the vessel in that area. The lecturer refutes this point. She says that perhaps there were some wires in the site, but probably, they were dismissed by people, as they did not find them important to keep, or they have been used for other purposes later on. Thus, it is not a convincing reason to reject the idea that the found vessel is a battery. Second, the author of reading contends that a vessel with a copper cylinder inside, which was found in the other archaeological site, had been used for holding of sacred texts. Thus, the vessel found in resent site is more likely to be a container of the same kind of texts. The lecturer rebuts this claim. She suggests that although it is probable that the vessels with the same shape and size have been created to hold the sacred texts at first, but they could be used for other purposes in the following eras. So, it is not a good excuse to refute that the vessel was not a battery. Finally, the author states that there is no meaning to have a battery while there is not any mean to use it. It means that having a battery was useless in that era because people were not able to use electrical power. The lecturer, on the other hand, challenges this point. She says that there is no evidence to indicate people did not know how to use the electricity in that era. On the contrary, some healers could use it as an invisible or magical power. Moreover, it could be used as a muscle stimulator for humans. Hence, this reason cannot prove the author’s claim.
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Young people nowadays do not give enough time to helping their communities.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 3
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Young people nowadays do not give enough time to helping their communities.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 70
- More and more people in the city live in homes with small spaces or no outdoor areas. Do you think it is a negative or positive development? 61
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, however, moreover, second, so, thus, while, kind of, on the contrary, on the other hand
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: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1493.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 334.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.47005988024 5.08290768461 88% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27500489853 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30801817597 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.458083832335 0.540411800872 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 480.6 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.8946111541 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.9444444444 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5555555556 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.38888888889 7.06452816374 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 1.0 4.09492273731 24% => More paragraphs wanted.
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: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0348813624807 0.272083759551 13% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.012145511994 0.0996497079465 12% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0157275450618 0.0662205650399 24% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0348813624807 0.162205337803 22% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.9 13.3589403974 67% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 53.8541721854 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 11.0289183223 72% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.65 12.2367328918 71% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.32 8.42419426049 87% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
Read sample essays from ETS:
http://www.testbig.com/users/toeflwritingmaster
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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