The reading and the lecture are both about Robert E. Peary who travelled to the North Pole in 1909. More specifically, in regard to the passage, the writer provides three theories about verifying his trip. The lecturer disputes the claims made in the article. His position is that there is no solid evidence that confirm his trip and these clues are not persuasive.
First and foremost, the author of the reading states a committee meets to investigate his clues using his records and instruments. The article mentions that the committee confirmed his argues. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that the committee was not completely objective because its members were his close friends; In addition, they fund his trip. Additionally, he points out that the committee took only two days to detect his saying, also they did not examine the tools and the records carefully, and so there was bias.
Secondly, the author suggests Tom Avery did the same trip and it took from him less than 37 days, and Peary did it in 37 days. In the article, it is said that Avery utilized the same tools of Peary like number of dogs and the breed. Again, the professor specifically addresses this point when he states these two persons are different because Avery has less weight in his journey and he did not take food with him, but they drop it for him using airplane. He goes on to say that the weather in Avery's trip was favorable but in Peary's trip was harsh, so it is hard to provide support for this claim.
Finally, the author brings his argument to a close by suggesting that Peary took some photographs as a proof. Not surprisingly, the speaker takes issue with this claim by contending that these photographs did not prove anything because his camera was primitive and the primitive were faded. He notes that it is hard to determine the shadow of the sun without precise pictures.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, in addition, in regard to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 22.412803532 214% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1566.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 331.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.73111782477 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26537283232 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47560546357 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519637462236 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 481.5 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.6077346352 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.1176470588 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4705882353 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.58823529412 7.06452816374 65% => 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 : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.170201244901 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0621506947832 0.0996497079465 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0720751689722 0.0662205650399 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102450190249 0.162205337803 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0324075315606 0.0443174109184 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 13.3589403974 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.15 12.2367328918 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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