TPO-44 INTEGRATED TASK
Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they respond to the specific arguments presented in the reading passage.
In 1957 a European silver coin dating to the eleventh century was discovered at a Native American archaeological site in the state of Maine in the United States. Many people believed the coin had been originally brought to North America by European explorers known as the Norse, who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and came into contact with Native Americans almost a thousand years ago. However, some archaeologists believe that the coin is not a genuine piece of historical evidence but a historical fake; they think that the coin was placed at the site recently by someone who wanted to mislead the public. There are three main reasons why some archaeologists believe that the coin is not genuine historical evidence. Great Distance from Norse Settlements First, the Native American site in Maine where the coin was discovered is located very far from other sites documenting a Norse presence in North America. Remains of Norse settlements have been discovered in far eastern Canada. The distance between the Maine site and the Norse settlements in Canada is more than a thousand kilometers, suggesting the coin has no real connection with the settlements. No Other Coins Found A second problem is that no other coins have been found at the Canadian sites that were inhabited by the Norse. This suggests that the Norse did not bring any silver coins with them to their North American settlements. Third, the Norse who traveled to North America would have understood that silver coins would most likely be useless to them. Silver coins may have been in wide use in Europe at the time, but the Norse, as experienced explorers, would have known that native North Americans did not recognize silver coins as money.
The lecture and the passage is about the European silver coin. The reading states that as per some archaeologists, these coins are fake and not a genuine piece of historical evidence. the professor casts doubt on whatever presented in the text and refutes every of the reason mentioned int he reading. He does not believe that these silver coins are really not genuine as the author assumes.
First of all, the professor mentions that not only the European silver coin but many other objects have also been came from far away places. Native americans travel great distances, so they could have reach at these sites and bought the coins there. This directly refuses the passage claim that the site where the coin found was located long away from the presence sites of Norse.
Secondly, the professor states that of no other coins have been found at the Canadian sites, it does not mean that Norse did not take the coins to North America. From the north american settlements they went back to Europe. Moreover, they might have packed up all the coins and took them back to Europe. These claims severely brings the relevance of point that Norse did not bring the silver coins to North America, mentioned in the passage, into question.
Thirdly, The professor puts forth the idea that Norse know that North American like attractive things . The fascinating things like silver coins, Necklaces and other types of jwelleries attracts them. They found them very interesting and beautiful and want to do trade with them. This again contradicts the passage saying that North Americans can not find silver coins as useful that they can do trade with them or use them as money.
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every of the reason mentioned int he reading.
every of the reasons mentioned in the reading.
many other objects have also been came from far away places.
many other objects have also been coming from far away places.
many other objects came from far away places.
so they could have reach at these sites
so they could have reached these sites
so they could have arrived at these sites
This directly refuses the passage claim that
This directly refuses the passage which claims that
This directly refuses the passage claiming that
These claims severely brings the relevance of point
These claims severely bring the relevance of point
Norse know that North American like attractive things
Norse knew that North Americans like attractive things
The fascinating things like silver coins, Necklaces and other types of jwelleries attracts them.
The fascinating things like silver coins, Necklaces and other types of jwelleries attract them.
The fascinating things like silver coins, Necklaces and other types of jwelleries attracted them.
They found them very interesting and beautiful and want to do trade with them.
Description: 'them' refers to what? Be sensitive to use pronouns.
...that they can do trade with them or use them as money.
Description: 'them' refers to what? Be sensitive to use pronouns.
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flaws:
No. of Grammatical Errors: 9 2 //you have serious issues on grammar.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 21 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 9 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 12
No. of Words: 285 250
No. of Characters: 1353 1200
No. of Different Words: 153 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.109 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.747 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.144 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 78 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 54 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 36 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 21 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.357 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.173 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.429 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.362 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.585 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.191 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 185, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
...a genuine piece of historical evidence. the professor casts doubt on whatever prese...
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Line 1, column 294, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'reads'.
Suggestion: reads
...es every of the reason mentioned int he reading. He does not believe that these silver ...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 115, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'come'.
Suggestion: come
...n but many other objects have also been came from far away places. Native americans ...
^^^^
Line 3, column 382, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... away from the presence sites of Norse. Secondly, the professor states that of n...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 102, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...at North American like attractive things . The fascinating things like silver coin...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, well, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1392.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 285.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88421052632 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.23493046351 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.543859649123 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 422.1 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.6679999719 49.2860985944 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.8 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4 7.06452816374 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => 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: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.541072109794 0.272083759551 199% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.176274200317 0.0996497079465 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0909818437004 0.0662205650399 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.31553601405 0.162205337803 195% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0981063516808 0.0443174109184 221% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.4 8.42419426049 88% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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