In 1957 a European silver coin dating to the eleventh century was discovered at a Native American archaeological site in the state of Maine in the United States Many people believed the coin had been originally brought to North America by European explor

Undoubtedly, the origin of the coin is controversial to the historians. More specifically, the writer asserts that someone put the coin on the site to mislead everybody. However, the professor provides some example and explanation to refute the writers' claim.

First, the writer mentions that the distance between the Native American site and sites Norse presented is over 1000 kilometers. However, the professor says that other items from Europe are also found in the Native American Site. If you were these Native Americans, you would have walked a long distance to obtain these precious items which improve life quality.

Second, the author points out that there are no other coins found in the inhabitant of the Norse. The professor, once again, forms another explanation. To Norse, silver coins are very valuable and the Natives won't accepts them. It follows that the Norse would bring all the silver coins back if they were planning to go home.

Another question the passage mentioned is that the silver is of no use - Native didn't recognize it as a medium of exchange. The professor says that the silver coins can have other functions; they don't have to be money. Because silver coins are beautiful, the Natives may put in on the necklace or turn it into jewelry.

In conclusion, the writer and the professor have different opinions on the origin of the coin.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, second, so, in conclusion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1149.0 1373.03311258 84% => OK
No of words: 229.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01746724891 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89008302616 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53303691099 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.554585152838 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 365.4 419.366225166 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 20.7832595507 49.2860985944 42% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 82.0714285714 110.228320801 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.3571428571 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 7.06452816374 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188018299521 0.272083759551 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0719053232591 0.0996497079465 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.041399986428 0.0662205650399 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109255184815 0.162205337803 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0134297298086 0.0443174109184 30% => 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: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.54 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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