Rembrandt is the most famous of the seventeenth century Dutch painters However there are doubts whether some paintings attributed to Rembrandt were actually painted by him One such painting is known as quot Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonn

Both the reading and listening discuss the famous painting" Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet". The author believes that this portrait was not painted by Rembrants and provides three reasons for support. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. She is of the opinion that this portrait belongs to Rembrandt.
       To begin with, the author suggests that the subject portrait is unreliable regarding the dressing of the lady, the cap was for maids and the coat was fancy. Thus Rembrant can not make such a terrible mistake since he was known by being meticulous. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. She says that the fur collar was not in the original painting and somebody, after 100 years of its painting, painted it on top of the original  painting to increase its value and to look more aristocratic. Thus, the authentic painting was consistent.
          Secondly, the writer argues that the light and shadow in the original painting were not compatible and Rembrandt can not do this blunder. The lecturer, however, rebuts this claim by asserting that the original painting was clearly realistic but the addition of the fur collar made it look not fit.
           Finally, the back of the portrait has glued pieces of wood as if it was not one single wood panel, which indicates that Rembradent was not the painter. The lecturer, in contrast, casts doubt on this by explaining that the wood panel was enlarged at the time of the addition of the fur collar to be more grand and valuable. In addition, she mentions that the original portrait was made of a single piece of wood and research has shown that it was from the same tree that Rebrant used for his famous "Self Portrait With a Hat".  

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...p was for maids and the coat was fancy. Thus Rembrant can not make such a terrible m...
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...nting, painted it on top of the original  painting to increase its value and to lo...
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...he authentic painting was consistent.           Secondly, the writer argues that the lig...
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... the fur collar made it look not fit.            Finally, the back of the portrait has gl...
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...us 'Self Portrait With a Hat'.  
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, look, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, thus, as for, in addition, in contrast, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1477.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 310.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76451612903 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66450246033 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503225806452 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 426.6 419.366225166 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.6066358697 49.2860985944 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.5 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1428571429 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.92857142857 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.212953052645 0.272083759551 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.082083848132 0.0996497079465 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0666031183581 0.0662205650399 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14585856193 0.162205337803 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0634105652497 0.0443174109184 143% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 53.8541721854 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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