Both the reading and the lecture discuss the finding of a precious silver European coin, which people believe belonged to the "Norse" a group of European explorers that traveled to America about one thousand years ago. The reading claims that many archeologists do not recognize the coin as legitimate, and is in fact, a fake. The lecturer does not agree with this argument. She thinks that the coin is a real historical artifact. She points out that many archeologists think the same, and cast doubt on the claims made by the passage.
First, the passage claims that the coin is located too far from any known Norse settlement, and therefore, is not possible that the coin really belonged to them. The lecturer rebuts this argument. She explains that many other items have been found in very remote locations, distant to any settlement. Furthermore, she adds that natives were very interested in acquiring items from far away, and is very possible that a native acquires the coin from the Norse and then moved it distantly.
Second, the article states that no other of these silver coins have been found, suggesting that is highly unlikely that Norse brought a single coin to America settlements. However, the lecturer explains that the Norse packed all of their valuable belongings with them, for when they return to Europe, she thinks this justifies the Norse taking their coins to America.
Finally, the passage argues that the coins did not have any value in America. They put forth the idea that, the Norse were experimented explorers, and knew that native Americans did not use silver coins as currency. The professor in the lecture cast doubt on this point. She says that, while is true that native America did not value the coins in the same way that Norse did, native America had reasons to find them appealing, like their beauty and rareness.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...le coin to America settlements. However, the lecturer explains that the Norse pac...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, really, second, so, then, therefore, while, in fact, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 22.412803532 174% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1560.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 315.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95238095238 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49337545083 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.507936507937 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 479.7 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.3201090479 49.2860985944 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.0 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.66666666667 7.06452816374 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.46150932794 0.272083759551 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.157858845759 0.0996497079465 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10447604331 0.0662205650399 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.29741372905 0.162205337803 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0520895157649 0.0443174109184 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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