Both the reading passage and the lecture are about a silver coin belonging to European explorers from eleventh century. Although the reading passage gives three reasons to support the hypothesis that someone put the coin to mislead the public, the lecturer opposes and believes the coin is originally brought to America by the Norse, and the reasons aren't plausible.
First, the author mentions the great distance from eastern Canada where the Norse settled to the Maine site in North America. However, the professor in the lecture points to the fact that native Americans had traveled far places before, and were interested in obtaining stuff from those far sites. And the issue of great distance doesn't work.
In addition, according to the author, as nobody could find even another coin and that silver coin was only one, we come to this issue that the coin is fake. Nevertheless, the claim is correct, the conclusion is not necessarily true. As they weren't permanent settlers and they wanted to return to their home, it seems possible that while packing their valuable stuff they missed one coin.
Finally, we might think bringing coin by the Norse was useless since native Americans didn't accept silver coin as money, in accordance with the reading passage. On the contrary, the lecturer states the value of silver coin in another form of money rather than today's form. The native Americans might have known silver coin as jewelry, as it was beautiful and fascinating. Therefore, the Norse may trade silver coins for other stuff. In conclusion, we come to the result that the reasons given by the reading passage aren't convincing and there's a probability that the coin was brought to the North America by the Norse 1000 years ago.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, therefore, while, in addition, in conclusion, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1449.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 291.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9793814433 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35750352879 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546391752577 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 449.1 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.7556162854 49.2860985944 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.461538462 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3846153846 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.69230769231 7.06452816374 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.48935654892 0.272083759551 180% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.169447566356 0.0996497079465 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0919485356606 0.0662205650399 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.267983604566 0.162205337803 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0850661415575 0.0443174109184 192% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.