In 1912 a bookseller named Wilfrid M. Voynich acquired a beautifully illustrated handwritten book (manuscript) written on vellum (vellum is a material that was used for writing before the introduction of paper). The "Voynich manuscript," as it became known, resembles manuscripts written in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. However, it is written in a completely unknown script. To date, no one has been able to decode the script and understand the book’s content. Several theories have been proposed to explain the origin of the Voynich manuscript.
The reading asserts that there are three theories about the manuscript Wilfrid m. Voynich acquired. The theories are about the concept and date of the manuscript. The lecture, however, finds all the intentions dubious and casts doubt on the reasons presented by the reading passage.
First, the reading argues that the manuscript might have been a genuine work which was containing a complicated secret code of a sientific or magical application and due to some shreds of evidence, Anthony Ascham, a physician, and botanist, could have been the author of that. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the idea that the manuscript seems to contain consequential pieces of information, and since Ascham was an ordinary physician with no original notion, it is dubious that the manuscript had been written by him.
Furthermore, the author holds the view that there is a possibility that the manuscript has is fake with no particular meaning and had been written by Edward Kelley to used to sell books by pretending to have magical powers. In contrast, the professor underlines the fact that people at that time were easy to fool, so he did not need to write such a complex book to fool them.
Finally, the reading passage asserts that there is a theory that Voynich had written the manuscript in order to sell it as an antique book to a book dealer. On the contrary, the speaker dismisses this issue due to the fact that the modern indicator techniques illustrated that the materials that composed the book, including its ink, have 4000 years old and proved that the manuscript had been written centuries before Voynich lived.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 84, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...pt might have been a genuine work which was containing a complicated secret code of a sientifi...
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Line 7, column 335, Rule ID: HAVE_CD_YEARS[1]
Message: This phrase is used with 'be': 'be 4000 years old'.
Suggestion: be 4000 years old
...t composed the book, including its ink, have 4000 years old and proved that the manuscript had been...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, so, in contrast, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1356.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 272.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98529411765 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06108636974 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67412631659 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558823529412 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 407.7 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 30.0 21.2450331126 141% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 87.1713255606 49.2860985944 177% => OK
Chars per sentence: 150.666666667 110.228320801 137% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.2222222222 21.698381199 139% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.55555555556 7.06452816374 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 4.33554083885 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.225348766289 0.272083759551 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0972673419998 0.0996497079465 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0538518492154 0.0662205650399 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133364044114 0.162205337803 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0519777481008 0.0443174109184 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 13.3589403974 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 53.8541721854 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.498013245 133% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 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.