TPO-33 - Integrated Writing Task
The reading passage brings up three theories about the usage of carved stone balls, artifacts found at Scotland. However, the lecturer contends that these theories are unconvincing and refutes each of them.
First, the article argues that these balls have been used for hunting or fighting. The professor casts doubts on this point by saying that since the surface of these artifacts has been successfully preserved, this theory is unlikely to be true. Because if they were used for such purposes like fighting or hunting, they had to be damaged, cracked or broken off.
Second, the passage explains that the balls were used to measure and weigh objects. In contrast, the professor posits that these stones were generally made up from some stones like sandstone, greenstone, and courtside. Although some of them had a uniform size, their weight differed from each other depending on the type of stone they were made of. Some of them were denser and heavier than the others. So they were not an appropriate metric to be used as measure system.
Third, the reading makes a point that the discovered stone balls symbolized their owner's social status. On the contrary, the professor rejects this claim by explaining that the theory is incompatible with some evidence. First, the design of some ball stones was so complicated while others were simple. Extremely simple to be a sign of their owner's social status. Furthermore, in the Neolithic period, when someone died, specifically a renowned person, he was buried with his possessions. Since not any trace of these stones was found in their graves, the theory is unlikely to be true.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, second, so, third, while, in contrast, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 10.4613686534 201% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => 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: 1369.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 271.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05166051661 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50459742576 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557195571956 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 416.7 419.366225166 99% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.2256532254 49.2860985944 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 85.5625 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9375 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.4375 7.06452816374 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.439095025715 0.272083759551 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.133982531163 0.0996497079465 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0702408045571 0.0662205650399 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.24136442027 0.162205337803 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0614323577046 0.0443174109184 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.71 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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