Both the passage and lecture offer opposing views on the originality of the silver coin which was found at a Native American archaeological site in state of Maine in the United States. While the text explains that the silver coin is not original, the lecturer totally repudiates this by giving reasons against each point made in the reading.
First of all, the text mentions that Norse settled in Canada which is more than 1000 kilometers away from the Maine site where the silver coin is found. On the contrary, the professor counters this by saying that North Americans had traveled long distances and brought back many other objects that are found far away from the excavation sites. Thus, it does not prove that the objects are fake. The speaker gave substantiated point and refutes the point made in the passage.
Besides this, the reading goes on by stating that there are no other coin found at the Maine site and it is not possible that Norse brought only one coin. The lecturer, however, counters this point by stating the fact that Norse went back to Europe and had taken all the important valuables with them. Therefore, they took all the silver coins with them back to Europe.
Lastly, the article gave reason that North American did not gave value to the silver coins. While the speaker says that North American would have found the silver coins very beautiful and different. They could have used it in making jewelry or any other interesting object. They would have traded it with the Norse.
To sum up, although both the passage and lecturer give interesting facts about the silver coin found at Maine site, but the reasons given by the professor are more reliable.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 448, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...gave substantiated point and refutes the point made in the passage. Besides t...
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Line 7, column 61, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'did' requires the base form of the verb: 'give'
Suggestion: give
...gave reason that North American did not gave value to the silver coins. While the sp...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, however, if, lastly, so, therefore, thus, while, first of all, on the contrary, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1402.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 291.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81786941581 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.21571951596 2.5805825403 86% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515463917526 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 429.3 419.366225166 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.7434233167 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.142857143 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7857142857 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.85714285714 7.06452816374 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.476766162107 0.272083759551 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.161524517542 0.0996497079465 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104016201791 0.0662205650399 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.263720454029 0.162205337803 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.048395901233 0.0443174109184 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.18 8.42419426049 85% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 63.6247240618 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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