The reading and the lecture are both about photographic negatives found in a box in a home in California. While the author of the reading argues that these negatives were created by Ansel Adams, a renowned photographer who lived in the twentieth century, the professor disputes this claim. He states that non of the reason made in the reading is convincing. Despite some similarities between those negatives and Adam's works, there is an explanation for them. The lecturer casts doubt on the main points mentioned in the article by providing three controversial reasons.
In the reading passage, the writer begins by saying that some of the negatives comprise an image of a leaning pine tree which appears in other Adam's photographs. However, the professor points out that that tree was not a random tree. It is a well-known tree, and actually it is one of the tourist attractions in that city. Thousands of visitors visit that tree, and many photographers have taken a photo of that tree.
Furthermore, according to the text, the handwriting on the box is analogous to Admas' wife's handwriting. On the other hand, the professor repudiates this claim. He asserts that Adam's wife was a daughter of a famous artist and lived her entire life in that city. Some of the places were miswritten on the box. How could she misspell those places where she spent her entire life?
Eventually, the author believes that because Adam had a fire incident in his studio and some of the discovered negatives include an indication of fire, those negatives belong to Adam. Not surprisingly, the professor refutes this claim by contending that back then, fire hazard was prevalent since negatives incorporate a flammable chemical substance. Many other artists' and photographers' studios caught on fire at that time.
To sum up, both the lecturer and the author hold conflicting views on whether the negatives found in that home belong to Ansel Adam or not.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
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Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: Some
...and lived her entire life in that city. Some of the places were miswritten on the box. How ...
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Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...m had a fire incident in his studio and some of the discovered negatives include an indicat...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, furthermore, however, if, so, then, well, while, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1622.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 324.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00617283951 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.780773419 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.530864197531 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 510.3 419.366225166 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.9106928222 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.1111111111 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.83333333333 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201421985209 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0607706509106 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0658017555662 0.0662205650399 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104721743377 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0589870368746 0.0443174109184 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.48 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 63.6247240618 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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