The reading and the lecture are both about the Peary's report when he visited North Pole in 1909. While the reading provides three evidence of support to Peary's claim, the lecture opposes these evidences by saying that there is no solid data, and the evidence is not convincing.
First of all, the passage mentions that there was a committee from the National Geographic Society was formed to investigate about Peary's records, and it concluded that Peary's indeed reached the North Pole. The lecturer, on the other hand, casts doubt on this evidence by saying that the committee did not complete the mission till the end. She argues that the committee was formed from close friends of him, who funded his trip was money. Moreover, She says that the investigation last only for two days, which is very short. Therefore the results are all biased and not trustworthy.
Second, the author of the reading states that the duration of Peary's trip was thirty-seven days, which is very correct because Tom Avery, who is a British explorer, took less than thirty-seven days using the same number, kind and even the same breed of dog Peary used. On contrast, the speaker explains that Tom's trip was completely different that Peary's one. He puts forth the idea that the weight in Tom's trip was much less than Peary's journey because there was no food, as he had received the food by airplane. Furthermore, Tom's trip was in a high favorable weather conditions, unlike the other one.
Third, the article suggests that by measuring the sun's position using shadows in Peary's photographs, it was found that it has the same position in the same day that it should have been at the North Pole. Conversely, the speaker discusses that the technical scientist who calculated the sun's position using shadows, was not accurate. She elaborates on this by mentioning that the one hundred years old primitive camera that was used by Peary had unfocused, fussy photos, which made the shadow blurred and faint, Consequently, we cannot trust those for accuracy.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 528, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...only for two days, which is very short. Therefore the results are all biased and not trus...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, conversely, first, furthermore, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, third, while, as for, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 12.0772626932 190% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1697.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 344.0 270.72406181 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93313953488 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30665032142 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45365197019 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 145.348785872 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.543604651163 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 511.2 419.366225166 122% => 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
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.3819174995 49.2860985944 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.214285714 110.228320801 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5714285714 21.698381199 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.71428571429 7.06452816374 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.434495218226 0.272083759551 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.138487382198 0.0996497079465 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.114664988813 0.0662205650399 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.250885114968 0.162205337803 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0277597599934 0.0443174109184 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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