The reading and the lecture are both about the accuracy of Chevalier's memoir, which is a valuable historical source about European society in eigthteen century. The reading casts doubts on the accuracy of the memoir. The lecturer refutes all the notions made by the author of the reading. She believes that the memoir is accurate.
To begin with, the author raises a question about the wealthiness of Chevalier. He argues that if Chevalier had trully possessed a lots of money, he would not have to borrow money from the bank as many evidences suggested. The professor rebutes this point. She says that the Chevalier have to made a loan while waiting for other assets of himself are being sold.
Secondly, the author mentions the correctness of records of conversation between Chevalier and Voltaire. He thinks that those records of conversations are written down many years after the conversation occurred, and question about the accuracy of its. The lecturer argues this point made by the author. She says that Chevalier had kept many notes after each conversation with Voltaire and use them as references when he wrote them down in his memoir.
Finally, the reading casts doubt on the claims in Chevalier's memoir about the escapre from prison in Venice. He thinks that Chevalier just made that story up to add excitement to his story. The lecturer, in the other hand, believes that Chevalier's memoir is correct. She says that Chevalier's cellmates are more powerful than him and could not even brided the jailer to get out of prison. Furthermore, evident about the ceilling of the prison covered up after Chevalier had already gotten out confirm the truthfullness of his memoir.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 218, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...s doubts on the accuracy of the memoir. The lecturer refutes all the notions made b...
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Line 3, column 130, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a lot' or simply 'lots'?
Suggestion: a lot; lots
... that if Chevalier had trully possessed a lots of money, he would not have to borrow m...
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Line 7, column 91, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...Chevaliers memoir about the escapre from prison in Venice. He thinks that Chevali...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, while, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1410.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 280.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03571428571 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59944067767 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514285714286 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 431.1 419.366225166 103% => 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.
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.715946437 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.9411764706 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4705882353 21.698381199 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.29411764706 7.06452816374 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.467470933748 0.272083759551 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.144715253297 0.0996497079465 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0822247423978 0.0662205650399 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.284744951276 0.162205337803 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0570125464497 0.0443174109184 129% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 13.3589403974 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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