The purposes of the vessels found in Iraq

Essay topics:

The purposes of the vessels found in Iraq.

The passage and the lecturer are in sharp disagreement. The passage believes that the vessels found in Iraq were not used for the electricity purposes. It brings about three reasons to support its stance. However, the professor asserts that the battery and electricity theory is correct and the reasons provided by the passage are not convincing. The passage's argumentations are as follows.

First of all, the passage says that if the vessels were used as batteries, there should be some electricity conductors like metal wires. Since such a thing is not found with the vessels, we cannot say that they were used as batteries. But the lecturer thinks that the vessels were found by the local people and since those people did not know what they have found, they may throw them away or were uninterested in the conductors. This means that the passage's reason is quite unconvincing.

Secondly, the passage puts forward that the copper cylinders found with the vessels resemble the copper cylinders found in the Seleucia city. Obviously, the copper cylinders of Seleucia were used to hold sacred texts. They had nothing to do with electricity. Since the copper cylinders of vessels have same shape with those of Seleucia city, it can be said that they were used for the same purposes. However, the lecturer believes that this claim does not prove anything. She says that they may wanted to use it for one specific purpose, but they eventually used it for another purpose. According to her, ancient people used them for electricity after their inventors found the electricity power of these materials.

Finally, the passage says that ancient people had not any devices dependent on electricity, so why they should generate electricity, meaning that the battery theory is impossible. In contrast, the professor assumes that the electricity had another purpose. These vessels were used to generate mild shocks which was important for doctors. Additionally, ancient people used the electricity power to convince their peers that they have magical powers.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, in contrast, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 22.412803532 183% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => 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: 1726.0 1373.03311258 126% => OK
No of words: 333.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18318318318 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62373456778 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468468468468 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 540.9 419.366225166 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.4751365725 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.3 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.65 21.698381199 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.3 7.06452816374 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => 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: 14.0 4.27373068433 328% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160359860897 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0519940372323 0.0996497079465 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0851941964077 0.0662205650399 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107588123129 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0460105487934 0.0443174109184 104% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => 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: 12.47 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.32 8.42419426049 87% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, in contrast, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 22.412803532 183% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => 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: 1726.0 1373.03311258 126% => OK
No of words: 333.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18318318318 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62373456778 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468468468468 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 540.9 419.366225166 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.4751365725 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.3 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.65 21.698381199 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.3 7.06452816374 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => 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: 14.0 4.27373068433 328% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160359860897 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0519940372323 0.0996497079465 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0851941964077 0.0662205650399 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107588123129 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0460105487934 0.0443174109184 104% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => 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: 12.47 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.32 8.42419426049 87% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => 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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Write the essay in 20 minutes.

Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 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.