TPO 28
Both the author and the lecturer discuss whether Peary reached the North Pole or not. While the author provides evidence to support the Peary's claim, the lecturer disagrees with this claim, casting doubt on every single point the author mentioned.
First of all, the author states that a committee conducted a comprehensive investigation to examine Peary's records and equipment. On the contrary, the lecturer believes that a committee did conduct an investigation but it was not completely objective. Furthermore, Peary’s close friends who funded a large sum of money for Peary’s trip were the members of this committee. In addition, the investigation lasted just two days, meaning that it did not examine Peary’s claim so carefully. Thus, the conclusion of this committee is biased and cannot be trusted.
Second, the author believes that the speed at which Peary reached the North Pole is possible as a British explorer reached within the same days as Peary. However, the lecturer brings up the idea that Avery’s sleds weigh less than Peary’s. Also, the food was given to Avery by airplane. In addition, the condition that Avery traveled was more favorable than that of the Peary's expedition. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that Peary could have reached the North Pole in 37 days.
Finally, the author argues that the photographs that Peary took showed that he reached the North Pole as the Surf S position corresponded exactly to the Surf S position that should have been at the North Pole. In opposition to this, the lecturer possesses the view that they can only understand the position of the sun by measuring the shadows in photographs carefully. However, the pictures of the Peary were unfocused. In addition, the photographs have been faded over time and as a result, the shadows in the Peary’s photographs looked blurred. Therefore, the position of the sun from these shadows cannot be measured by great accuracy.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, look, second, so, therefore, thus, while, in addition, as a result, first of all, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 5.01324503311 299% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1650.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 317.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20504731861 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83999986264 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514195583596 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 502.2 419.366225166 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.23620309051 182% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.0951297428 49.2860985944 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.0588235294 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6470588235 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.58823529412 7.06452816374 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.547805863009 0.272083759551 201% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.17154092417 0.0996497079465 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.124939043228 0.0662205650399 189% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.329228351126 0.162205337803 203% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0956151954142 0.0443174109184 216% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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