The Plain of Jars is an archaeological site in the Southeast Asian country of Laos At the site hundreds of large stone jars ranging in size from one to three meters are scattered across the countryside These numerous large containers are around 2 000 year

The reading and listening are about the jars found near archaeological site in Laos.The lecturer totally disagree with all theories proposed by author.

The first assumption made by author is that these jar constructed for fermentation of food and drinks.However the lecturer says that stones made jars can be a good replaceable jar instead of these expensive ones even it consume less time for construction and give same result.

Second theory made by author that location of jar near trade routes shows that it may be used for water storage. The professor rebuts his arguments.He says that location of jars near trade routes become pointless if it also close to a river.Having a large source of water why people need to store additional water.

Finally, the author used a famous myth that burying the dead alongside valuable artifacts can be a possibility that jars were used for tombs.The professor disagree with this point and claims that found uncovered jars are not meant to be constructed for burying people as the jars used on burial site must be covered.

To sum up both the author and lecturer have conflicting views about the theories regarding the discovery of jars.

Votes
Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
Essay Categories
Essays by the user:

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 85, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
... found near archaeological site in Laos.The lecturer totally disagree with all theo...
^^^
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ith all theories proposed by author. The first assumption made by author is that...
^^^
Line 3, column 103, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: However
...ted for fermentation of food and drinks.However the lecturer says that stones made jars...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 103, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...ted for fermentation of food and drinks.However the lecturer says that stones made jars...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 221, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'consumes'?
Suggestion: consumes
...instead of these expensive ones even it consume less time for construction and give sam...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 149, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: He
...age. The professor rebuts his arguments.He says that location of jars near trade r...
^^
Line 5, column 225, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'closes'?
Suggestion: closes
...rade routes become pointless if it also close to a river.Having a large source of wat...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 242, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Having
...e pointless if it also close to a river.Having a large source of water why people need...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 142, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...ssibility that jars were used for tombs.The professor disagree with this point and ...
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, regarding, second, so, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 994.0 1373.03311258 72% => OK
No of words: 197.0 270.72406181 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04568527919 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.74642080493 4.04702891845 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71744810591 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 115.0 145.348785872 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.583756345178 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 307.8 419.366225166 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 6.0 13.0662251656 46% => 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: 32.0 21.2450331126 151% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 78.3015893127 49.2860985944 159% => OK
Chars per sentence: 165.666666667 110.228320801 150% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.8333333333 21.698381199 151% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.8333333333 7.06452816374 182% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 4.19205298013 215% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.154056007469 0.272083759551 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0749404129208 0.0996497079465 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0443298164275 0.0662205650399 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0817365850792 0.162205337803 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0459236297693 0.0443174109184 104% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.8 13.3589403974 141% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.0 53.8541721854 72% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 11.0289183223 143% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 63.6247240618 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 10.498013245 141% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?

---------------------

Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
---------------------
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.