The main topic of both the reading and the lecture is about the origin of the Voynich book. The reading passage claims that there are several theories for this phenomenon that who is the main author of that book. On the other hand, the lecturer not only casts doubt on every single point raised by the author through citing three different counter-arguments but also believes that none of the names mentioned in the passage is the real author of that manuscript.
To begin with, the reading passage establishes that the book is a genuine work several scientific and magical topic written in an intricate secret code. In contrast, the lecturer rebuts this idea, stating that the mentioned subjects with secret codes do not fit with Anthony Ascham's field of study because he was an ordinary physician and could not understand those concepts and figures in the manuscript. Therefore, it is unlikely he was the author of the Voynich manuscript.
Furthermore, the author brings up this notion that the due to the fact the manuscript's text does not have real meaning, therefore, another theory is that this book was written as a fake manuscript in order to sell to prosperous and rich individuals. Conversely, the lecturer supports a mutually exclusive view compared to that of the passage and specifies that it is not likely that Kelly is the author of the manuscript because if he wanted to write a fake book and sold to rich people in order to make money, it would not be necessary for him to write in a complex format as well as do many works. The people of that time was really quite simple and did not need to write a book with complicated text.
Eventually, the reading passage goes on to mention that due to the fact that Voynich had the information about the appearance of ancient manuscripts, consequently, he created a contemporary fake book to sell it as a strange ancient book. Notwithstanding, the lecturer points out that it is now very easy to date the modern manuscripts by checking the materials of pages and ink. The pages and ink of that book should be for 400 years ago. It is true that he was able to buy well pages for 400 years ago by paying more money but he could not buy the ink.
- TOEFL T P O 34 - Integrated Writing Task 3
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 76, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'manuscripts'' or 'manuscript's'?
Suggestion: manuscripts'; manuscript's
...his notion that the due to the fact the manuscripts text does not have real meaning, theref...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, conversely, furthermore, if, really, so, therefore, well, in contrast, as well as, it is true, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 30.3222958057 165% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1819.0 1373.03311258 132% => OK
No of words: 391.0 270.72406181 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.65217391304 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44676510885 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63557189844 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 145.348785872 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468030690537 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 560.7 419.366225166 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0 21.2450331126 141% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 85.7540862794 49.2860985944 174% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.923076923 110.228320801 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.0769230769 21.698381199 139% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.6923076923 7.06452816374 166% => 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 : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.0287895930464 0.272083759551 11% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0112169972048 0.0996497079465 11% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0263936947465 0.0662205650399 40% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0172463049025 0.162205337803 11% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0298714763339 0.0443174109184 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.3589403974 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.95 53.8541721854 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.28 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.498013245 133% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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