The reading article talks about Robert E. Peary's North Pole expedition and put forth three theories to support the date and time taken for the journey from Greenland's coast to the North Pole. The lecture refuses the claims presented in the reading with counter arguments.
First, the reading passage refers to the National Geographic society's investigation and conclusion of the investigation about Peary's claim of reaching North Pole on April 7, 1909. The committee checked his records and equipment and found the claim consistent and persuasive. However, the lecture argues that, the investigation was not objective and the committee was composed of Peary's friends. His friends donated funds to the society, hinted biased decision. Along with that, it lasted only for two days and wasnot through enough.
Secondly, the article draws support from the recent expedition by Tom Avery, who reached North Pole in less than 37 days and followed the footsteps of Peary and used similar route and equipment. The lecture refuses the claim by stating, even though Avery used the same route and equipment, the weather conditions he faced were more favorable than what Peary faced. In addition, Avery carried less weight with him than Peary and his food was delivered by airplane. Makes the claim questionable and cannot be compared with Peary's expedition.
Lastly, the reading uses photographic evidence to support the claim. The shadows in the photographs taken On April 7, 1909 shows the Sun's position on that day. The lecture counters this theory by pointing out that, photographs does not provide enough evidence, based on the fact that the camera used was primitive. That camera produced fussy and blurry images. Moreover, the professor adds, those photographs are faded over the period and it is difficult to calculate the precise position of the Sun on that day.
In conclusion, the lecture dismisses all the claims presented in the reading article, citing lack of evidence, making it weakly convincing.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, lastly, moreover, second, secondly, so, in addition, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 7.30242825607 219% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => 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: 1694.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 322.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26086956522 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5722310987 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 145.348785872 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55900621118 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 507.6 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.3321342771 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.1111111111 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8888888889 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.77777777778 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.453644638781 0.272083759551 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121970624119 0.0996497079465 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.1033487024 0.0662205650399 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.220978346039 0.162205337803 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.114604119363 0.0443174109184 259% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.93 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 63.6247240618 151% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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