TPO-44 - Integrated Writing Task
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. Sitver 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 article states that the coin which was discovered at a native Amerian archaeological site is not genunie historical evidence and provides three reasons to support it. However, the professor explains that the coin was not a fake and refutes each of author's reason.
First, the reading claims that the location which the coin was discovered is very far from other sites. The professor refutes this point by saying that many other objects were discovered there which have come from other distance locations. The native who lived at the main site were probably intrested in objects which brought from distance places.
Second, the article points that no other coins were discovered at the site, that indicates the Norse did not bring any silver coins with them. The professor says that permanent settlements used to packs their objects and brought them back to North America and then Europe.
Third, the reading says that the Norse wasn't aware of the value of the silver coin. Professor opposes this point by pinpointing that he was aware of the kinship of North Amricans to unusual objects, which make the silver coin at least appealing for jewllery usage or trading goals.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 40, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wasn't
... Third, the reading says that the Norse wasnt aware of the value of the silver coin. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, second, so, then, third, at least
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 986.0 1373.03311258 72% => OK
No of words: 196.0 270.72406181 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0306122449 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.74165738677 4.04702891845 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31446027488 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 110.0 145.348785872 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.561224489796 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 297.9 419.366225166 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.6915864849 49.2860985944 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.555555556 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7777777778 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.44444444444 7.06452816374 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => 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: 0.249755175392 0.272083759551 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11093420212 0.0996497079465 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0480964551848 0.0662205650399 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160902589292 0.162205337803 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0367109184605 0.0443174109184 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 44.0 63.6247240618 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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