TPO 28
The article states that when an arctic explorer, named Peary, claimed he reached the pole in 1909, he became a celebrity. The reading provides three reasons to support his claim. In the listening, the professor explains that the reasons are not authentic enough to support Peary's claim, and she refuses each of them.
First, the text claims that after the investigation of Peary's records and equipment, the national Geography committee concluded that his claim is true. On the contrary, the professor says that the committee was not objective, and they were Peary's friends. In addition, they did not research on the claim carefully, so their report could not be authentic.
Second, the article mentions that some skeptics said that it was impossible for Peary to reach the North Pole in 37 days. But evidence on another explorer named Avery shows that he achieve that less than 37 days with the same trek, so they conclude that Peary's claim is not impossible anymore. On the other hand, the professor states that Avery's speed was different because he did not carry food, and he got it from an airplane, so it is not proper to compare Avery with Peary.
Third, the reading asserts that there are some photographs that declare Peary was on that pole. The angle of the sun in the photos demonstrates that the photos are taken in the North Pole. On the contrary, the professor says that the photos are without shadow, and they are taken with a low-quality camera, so they cannot be a proof of Peary's claim.
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- TPO 28 3
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, second, so, then, third, in addition, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1254.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 260.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82307692308 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01553427287 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40844176097 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.511538461538 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 376.2 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.9490380029 49.2860985944 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.5 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6666666667 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.33333333333 7.06452816374 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.433782184518 0.272083759551 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.166298289329 0.0996497079465 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0799957285126 0.0662205650399 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.260963165975 0.162205337803 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0442841080241 0.0443174109184 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 53.8541721854 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.08 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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