Copper scrolls
The reading passage and the lecture have conflicting opinions about whether or not the copper scrolls discovered near the dead sea in Israel contained instructions to locate a treasure. The article argues that the story in the artifact is merely fiction and a work of imagination. On the other hand, the speaker in the lecture strongly delineates that the copper scrolls point to treasures in Egypt, not in Israel, and they were inaccurately translated.
To begin with, the author claims that the manuscript is in an ancient Hebrew language which is difficult to translate since there are no similar documents found to compare and surmise the correct translation. As a result, the translated version is full of errors, which could be by mistake or on purpose. The lecturer, however, indicates that the language was a mixture of Hebrew with Egyptian numbers and also there were systematic deliberate mistakes to render the writing only understood under the eyes of certain people.
Secondly, the writer mentions that the scrolls reported about an amount of gold and silver so vast that it seems impossible to actually exist. Moreover, the document was supposedly written by the Qumran sect who were not known for greed. In fact, they were famous for their disregard for worldly possessions. In contrast, the lecturer brings up the fact that a scholar named Robert Feathers was able to identify the Egyptian numbers and hence, was capable of getting the correct translation which reflected a lesser amount of gold that is more believable. Furthermore, the lecturer points out that the author of the document is probably an Egyptian scribe since Egypt had presence in this region around the time the scrolls were made.
Lastly, according to the excerpt, some treasure hunters have determined few locations for the gold but after digging, they found nothing which indicates that the copper scrolls were either an ancient joke or a map for a treasure which has long been dug up and carted away. The lecturer, In contrast, offsets this point by declaring that the places for the treasure were at the city of Amarna in egypt, not in Israel, and yes, most of the treasures have been found and put in museums or purchased by private collectors.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 69, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...lecture have conflicting opinions about whether or not the copper scrolls discovered near the ...
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Line 9, column 91, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...orted about an amount of gold and silver so vast that it seems impossible to actu...
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Line 13, column 520, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ums or purchased by private collectors.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, furthermore, hence, however, if, lastly, moreover, second, secondly, so, in contrast, in fact, as a result, to begin with, on the other hand
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: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 30.3222958057 171% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1881.0 1373.03311258 137% => OK
No of words: 373.0 270.72406181 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04289544236 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39467950092 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60383969717 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 145.348785872 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541554959786 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 575.1 419.366225166 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 64.3546019559 49.2860985944 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.692307692 110.228320801 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.6923076923 21.698381199 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.3846153846 7.06452816374 175% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.179960727304 0.272083759551 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0653652290278 0.0996497079465 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0928467946229 0.0662205650399 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11899486128 0.162205337803 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107911704037 0.0443174109184 243% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 13.3589403974 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 53.8541721854 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.22 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 63.6247240618 156% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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