Burning Mirrors
The article states that the story of Greek navy using burning mirror to defeat Roman navy is just a myth and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that the idea of such thing being a myth is unconvincing and refutes each of the author's reasons.
First, the reading states that the ancient Greek were not technologically advanced enough to build burning mirrors. The professor refutes this point by stating that not as much technology is needed to build those mirrors as we expect it is. For example, they needed copper wood as a material for work which was already available. Also, they could easily build such big mirrors by assembling many small ones.
Second, the article claims that the burning mirror would have taken a long time to set the ships on fire. However, the professor contends that they had the material needed to set fire in a second rather than taking ten minutes if they had to use only wood. This could have been done by using pitch which helps setting fire quickly.
Third, the reading amends that a burning mirror does not seem like an improvement on a weapon that the Greeks already had: flaming arrows. The lecture opposes this point by saying that there is actually some benefits in using burning mirrors in comparison with using simple flaming arrows. She states that when an army is using burning mirrors their enemy is only able to see the mirror, nothing more where as the fire could be seen if they had used flaming arrows. So using burning mirrors is more affective because it suddenly sets the fire and surprises the enemy.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 311, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to set' or 'set'.
Suggestion: to set; set
...ve been done by using pitch which helps setting fire quickly. Third, the reading amen...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 31, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...uickly. Third, the reading amends that a burning mirror does not seem like an i...
^^
Line 7, column 186, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ecture opposes this point by saying that there is actually some benefits in using...
^^
Line 7, column 404, Rule ID: WHERE_AS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'whereas'?
Suggestion: whereas
...ly able to see the mirror, nothing more where as the fire could be seen if they had used...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, however, if, second, so, third, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => 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: 1315.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 276.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76449275362 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.21830283433 2.5805825403 86% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550724637681 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 401.4 419.366225166 96% => 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: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.6954960424 49.2860985944 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.153846154 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2307692308 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.07692307692 7.06452816374 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.372575285343 0.272083759551 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.151577796722 0.0996497079465 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.118426406987 0.0662205650399 179% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223174980311 0.162205337803 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.10959223289 0.0443174109184 247% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.42 8.42419426049 88% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 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.