Both the reading and the lecture are about a silver coin discovered in the state of Maine dating to the eleventh century. The author of the reading holds the opinion that this coin is just a fake coin and provides three reasons for support. While, on the other hand, the lecturer insists that this coin is genuine historical evidence brought by the Norse (Europian explorers) and provides three theories for that.
First, the author of the reading points out that there is a great distance between where the Norse settlement was and where the coin discovered, there is no way that the coin traveled all this distance. The lecturer challenges this point. She says the great distance is not a big deal, the Native Americans liked to obtain different objects from different places even the far away ones, and there are proofs for other objects they obtained from other great distances. This can assure that the coin is a real one.
Second, the author of the reading conduits that there is no other coin found in the places inhabited by the Norse, if they brought any, another one should be found. The lecturer disagrees, she says the Norse didn't live in Canada for long, so when they traveled back to Europe, they should pack all their valuable items, and silver coins should be a valuable item which most probably packed with them going back home.
Third, the author of the reading mentions that there is no use for such a coin in North America as money, why the Norse could bring it in the first place. The lecturer answers this question. They would bring something like that because of its beauty, it also could be used for trading. This gives an explanation, why the Norse brought the silver coins from Europe.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 209, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
... lecturer disagrees, she says the Norse didnt live in Canada for long, so when they t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, second, so, third, while, in the first place, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1414.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 301.0 270.72406181 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.6976744186 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.16774799185 2.5805825403 84% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514950166113 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 423.0 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.2991115665 49.2860985944 141% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.769230769 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1538461538 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.15384615385 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.397688041933 0.272083759551 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.149100040919 0.0996497079465 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0813963619583 0.0662205650399 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.248220504985 0.162205337803 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0328530247714 0.0443174109184 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 53.8541721854 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.28 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.56 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => 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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