In this set of materials the reading and lecture both are discussing about authenticity of Jane Austen's portrait. The passage considers the portrait to be of Jane. The lecturer casts doubt on all the claims made in the passage and provides three reasons in support. He thinks the theories in reading are unconvincing.
To begin with, the reading suggests that the portrait is recognized by the decedents of Jane's family. They have also authorized the portrait. On the other hand, the lecturer argues that the portrait, when first was allowed for publication; Jane was already dead for 70 years. Jane's relatives or descendants, who had never met Jane in personal can not be so sure about authenticity of the portrait.
Furthermore, The article states that the teenage girl in the portrait, resembles the sketch of Jane drawn by her sister Cassandra. The lecturer contradicts this point of view. He states that the portrait might be of some other relative of Jane, who has a very large extended family such as, her cousins or a niece.
Finally, the author posits that even though, the portrait is by anonymous painter and undated the style of painting is quite similar to the painter Humphrey. He might be a family painter of Austen's at that time. Furthermore, he was still actively painting during Jane's teenage years. On the contrary, the speaker claims that the name of the seller of canvas which is mentioned on back of the portrait indicates according to the records that the seller started selling the canvas after Jane was 21. So, the fact that the poster is of Jane's is untrue.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, so, still, then, such as, on the contrary, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1322.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 271.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87822878229 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59258641839 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527675276753 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 402.3 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Interrogative: 3.0 0.116997792494 2564% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.2807139938 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.625 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9375 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.875 7.06452816374 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.27373068433 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.354085130087 0.272083759551 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110092847667 0.0996497079465 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.064361447837 0.0662205650399 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.208796697207 0.162205337803 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0390649507189 0.0443174109184 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 13.3589403974 75% => 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: 10.73 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => 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: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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