Robert E. Peary was a well-known adventurer and arctic explorer who in 1909 set out to reach the North Pole. When he returned from the expedition, he claimed to have reached the pole on April 7, 1909. This report made him into an international celebrity. Though some historians have expressed doubts that Peary did, in fact, reach the North Pole, three arguments provide strong support for the truth of Peary’s claim.
First, the National Geographic Society put together a committee that was instructed to conduct a thorough investigation of Peary’s records and equipment. At the end of the investigation, the committee concluded that Peary’s accounts were consistent and persuasive and declared that he had indeed reached the North Pole.
Second, a recent expedition provides support for Peary’s claim that he reached the North Pole in only 37 days after setting out from Ellesmere Island off the coast of Greenland. Skeptics used to argue that Peary could not have traveled that fast. Since even modern snowmobiles take longer to cover the same distance. However, a British explorer named Tom Avery recently made the same trek in less than 37 days. In fact, Avery used the same kind of dogsled and the same number and breed of dogs as Peary had. Thus, Peary’s claims are not impossible, and he very well might have been telling the truth.
Third, there are photographs taken by Peary that support his claim to have reached the North Pole. Measuring the shadows in Peary's photographs makes it possible to calculate the Sun's position in the north pole. The Sun's position established from the photographs corresponds exactly to the Sun's position as it should have been at the North Pole on that day. This provides strong evidence that Peary reached the North Pole and took the photographs there.
The reading is about Peary exploration of north pole. It offers three supporting ideas in order to bolster its position. However, the professor disprove the Pearys exploration. She refutes each of the passage reason in a convincing manner.
First, the reading asserts that the National Geography Society concluded Peary journey was consistent and persuasive to accept. But, the narrator denies this claim. She elaborates many reasons to doubt such as, the committee was not objective and trustworthy because the members of the committee was Peary friends and they were taking only two days’ time to submit their decision.
Second, the passage states that by citing Avery journey less than 37 days, it was revealed that Peary completed the exploration 37 days. However, the speaker disregard this position. She says, there was a huge gap in between Peary and Avery because Avery use the transportation such as aero plane that was faster. Moreover, the climate on Avery time was more favorable than Pearys time.
Third, the written excerpt claims that the shadow picture were proof of Pearys exploration to north pole. The point is quite incoherent with the professor. She offers that, the shadow and blurred photograph were not the reason of the sun position in the north pole rather, it was the cause of unadvanced camera (over 100 years ago). So, the fuzzy and distorted photograph were not the proof for Pearys north pole exploration.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 217, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a convincing manner" with adverb for "convincing"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
... She refutes each of the passage reason in a convincing manner. First, the reading asserts that the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, moreover, second, so, third, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 21.0 30.3222958057 69% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1215.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 235.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17021276596 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91531732006 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5277598662 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.574468085106 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 370.8 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => 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: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.043510851 49.2860985944 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.0 110.228320801 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.6666666667 21.698381199 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.8 7.06452816374 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.16372248824 0.272083759551 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0611953011926 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0536224515421 0.0662205650399 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.099944014732 0.162205337803 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0253359990738 0.0443174109184 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.41 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => 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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