The speaker disputes the author's suggested theory that Chevalier's memoir about his life adventures was 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 because he borrowed money from a wealthy merchant to cover his debts. However, the lecturer finds this idea debatable. She indeed believes that Chevalier was a wealthy person because he had lots of properties. She contends that he had to borrow some money temporarily before he cash out 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 unlikely that Chevalier remembers the details of the conversation and write it down accurately. However, the lecturer disputes these claims. According the lecturer Chevalier was always taking notes of the conversation that took place with Voltaire. Thus, he was only copying the details from his notes.
Finally, the author argues the Chevalier did not escape from prison in Italy. She believes that Chevalier had some contact with politicians who helped him to be released. On the other hand, the lecturer argues that it is highly possible that Chevalier did escape. She contends that other prisoners had contact with politicians yet, they were not able to escape. Moreover, the prison's guards confirm the presence of a hole in the ceiling right after Chevalier's escape.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, thus, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => 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: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1289.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.30452674897 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60118766002 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 128.0 145.348785872 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.526748971193 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 396.0 419.366225166 94% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => 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: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.5863892471 49.2860985944 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.9333333333 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.93333333333 7.06452816374 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => 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: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.205889186744 0.272083759551 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0715635032924 0.0996497079465 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0633998973579 0.0662205650399 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129437714472 0.162205337803 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0345347968291 0.0443174109184 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.16 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => 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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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.