TPO 28 - Robert E. Peary was a well-known adventurer and arctic explorer who in 1909 set out to reach the North Pole. When he returned from the expedition, he claimed to have reached the pole on April 7, 1909. This report made him into an international celebrity.
The reading and the lecturer are both about Peary´s claim to have reached the North Pole in 1909. The author of the reading provides three supporting arguments. However, the lecturer challenges those three ones because she believes they are not convincing.
First of all, it is mentioned in the reading that a committee from National Geographic Society instructed a thorough investigation on Peary´s record and equipment. They then confirmed the validity of the claim. The lecturer, however, disproves the investigation report. She says that members of the committee are friends and supporters of Peary. Therefore they did not look into the records carefully which means that the report was bias and not reliable.
Secondly, the writer says that another similar expedition made by British explorer Tom Avery supports the accuracy of the claim. It is declared in the reading that Avery reached the North Pole in less than 37 days under the same conditions which Peary used to carry out the expedition. Therefore, that the latter arrived the Pole in 37 days is possible. In contrast, the lecturer rebuts this argument by noting that Avery carried less weight than did Peary. Besides, she contends that Avery conducted the trip under favorable weather conditions while Peary suffered much worse ones. Therefore, the conditions of the two trips are different which means they are not comparable.
Thirdly, the passage states that analysis of photos taken by Peary asserted the validity of his achievement. The lecturer, on the other, disagrees with this argument. She puts forth the idea that those photos are not adequate evidences because the quality of the photos was poor with faded and blurred shadow. As the result, they cannot be used to consolidate Peary´s declaration.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 352, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...ee are friends and supporters of Peary. Therefore they did not look into the records care...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, while, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1512.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 286.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28671328671 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69606494707 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541958041958 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 465.3 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.4569869637 49.2860985944 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.0 110.228320801 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8888888889 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.05555555556 7.06452816374 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.344573769913 0.272083759551 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0957578695563 0.0996497079465 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102419587608 0.0662205650399 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.193471924292 0.162205337803 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0633618755917 0.0443174109184 143% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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