The speaker disputes the author's suggestive claims that Chevalier memoir about his life's adventures were not accurate. She provides several reasons to cast doubt about the author's claims.
First, according to the text Chevalier was not a rich person person because he borrowed money from a wealthy merchant to cover his debts. However, the lecturer find this idea debatable. She indeed believes that Chevalier was not poor. The lecturer contends that Chevalier had lots of properties. However, he had to borrow some money temporarily before he cash the money from the selling transactions.
Second, the lecturer contradict the fallacy of the passage that since the memoir were written several years after the conversation between Chevalier and Voltaire, it is very hard for Chevalier to remember the details of the conversation and write it down. However, the lecturer finds indeed that the information in the memoir is accurate. According the lecturer Chevalier was always taking notes of the conversation that took place with Voltaire. Thus the information is most likely to be accurate.
Finally, the author argues the Chevalier did not escape from prison as the memoir mentioned. She believes that Chevalier had some contact with politicians who helped him to be released. On the other hand, the lecturer argues that in fact Chevalier did escape from the prison. She contends that other prisoners had contact with politicians yet, they were not able to escape. Moreover, the prison's guards found a hole in the ceiling right after Chevalier escape. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that Chevalier was released because of the influence of his politician's friends.
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? A good leader should spend more time listening to other people's ideas than taking his or her own ideas. 76
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Governments should spend more money in support of the arts than in support of athletics such as state-sponsored Olympic teams. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 83
- Some people have ambitious dreams and keep pursuing them, but other people always focus on realistic goals and try to achieve them. Which do you think is better and why? 90
- Many countries require cigarette smokers to pay particularly high taxes on their purchases of cigarettes; similar taxes are being considered for unhealthy foods. The policy of imposing high taxes on cigarettes and other unhealthy products has a number of 76
- Hail—pieces of ice that form and fall from clouds instead of snow or rain—has always been a problem for farmers in some areas of the United States. Hail pellets can fall with great force and destroy crops in the field. Over the last few decades, a met 76
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 55, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: person
...ng to the text Chevalier was not a rich person person because he borrowed money from a wealth...
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Line 5, column 448, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ersation that took place with Voltaire. Thus the information is most likely to be ac...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, thus, in fact, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1410.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 265.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32075471698 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65989825741 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.501886792453 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 433.8 419.366225166 103% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.7134384168 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.9411764706 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5882352941 21.698381199 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52941176471 7.06452816374 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.216905166741 0.272083759551 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0738673170402 0.0996497079465 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0561810023418 0.0662205650399 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134360870444 0.162205337803 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00357051305631 0.0443174109184 8% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => 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: 13.28 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.42 8.42419426049 88% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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: 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.