Toward the end of his life, the Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798) wrote a long memoir recounting his life and adventures. The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure, but since he met many famous people, including kings and writers, his memoir has b

The reading states that the critics raise doubts about the accuracy of the memoir written by Chevalier de Seingalt and gives reasons for the support. The author explains that the events in the memoir were distorted to make his life seem more exciting and glamorous. However, the professor explains that Chevalier’s memoir was accurate overall. She says that it is considered a reliable historic source and thus, she refutes each of the reason mentioned in the article.

First, the author claims that Chevalier was not wealthy as mentioned in the memoir as he borrowed money from the a swiss merchant. Conversely, the professor challenges this point by saying that he he was truly wealthy and spent lot of money on parties and gambling. So to get more money to party, he sold his assets and did require time to convert it into cash. Meanwhile, as he was running out of cash, he borrowed money from the merchant.

Second, the reading posits that the conversion written in the memoir between Chevalier and famous writer Voltaire was not accurate. They say that it is impossible to remember the exact phrases years later. The professor rebuts this argument by stating that Chevalier used to pen down the conversation the same night. He used those written conversations many years later to write the memoir. This was even confirmed by the witnesses who even mentioned that he used to refer to his journals to write the memoir.

Finally, the article questions the account of the chevalier’s escape from the prison in Italy, through the ceiling to escape. The professor disagrees with this by stating that the old evidence of government document mentions that soon after Chevaliar escaped from the prison, the ceiling had to undergo repair. So. The professor points out that why would they repair the ceiling unless he escaped as he did mention in the memoir.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: the; a
...in the memoir as he borrowed money from the a swiss merchant. Conversely, the profess...
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Suggestion: he
...or challenges this point by saying that he he was truly wealthy and spent lot of mon...
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...g that he he was truly wealthy and spent lot of money on parties and gambling. So...
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...er to his journals to write the memoir. Finally, the article questions the accou...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, finally, first, however, if, second, so, thus, while

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 22.412803532 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1559.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 313.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98083067093 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59451673969 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517571884984 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 470.7 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.0811767944 49.2860985944 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 97.4375 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5625 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.3125 7.06452816374 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.250232445128 0.272083759551 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0865054358727 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0566620467927 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150029264176 0.162205337803 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.058733440589 0.0443174109184 133% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => 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: 11.6 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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