TPO30-‘burning mirror’
The lecture and the passage discuss the truth about an ancient weapon called 'burning mirror' which have been used by Greek army during the battle with Roman navy. Although the passage claims that there are three reasons which could deny the reality of this weapon, the speaker refutes these ideas through a number of reasons which will be decribed in this report.
First of all, the passage points out that the ancient Greek were not as much as advanced in technology to create such a weapon which needed a large sheet of copper. The speaker, in contrast, rejects this by claiming that the large sheet of copper was not necessary due to the reason that they could use dozen of small copper sheets to produce this weapon.
Furthermore, unlike the passage which states that experiments indicate that by using this weapon, it takes a long time to set a ship on fire and it is should be considered that the Roman's ships were not still during the battle, the speaker argues that the Roman's ships had been not made fully by wood and for being waterproof in the ocean they had used pitches in their ships constructions. As a result, this pitches could set the ship on fire in a second. She also believes that the Greek army were quick enough to use this weapon on the moving ships.
Finally, although the passage says that in the ancient Greek there are more advanced weapon like flaming arrow to use instead of this mirrors, the professor disagrees by mentioning that the Roman navy was familiar with flaming arrow; therefore, they could escape from them by moving the ship. She states that this burning mirror were more practical and the Greek army could burn the Roman navy easier due to the fact that the Roman navy could not recognize the source of the fire.
- TPO42-Workers are more satisfied when they have many different types of tasks to do during the workday than when they do similar tasks all day long 73
- TPO 23- In today’s world, it is more important to work quickly and risk making mistakes than to work slowly and make sure that everything is correct 75
- solution to prevent the spread of toads 80
- always telling the truth s the most important consideration in any relationship between people. 80
- TPO43- Imagine that you are in a classroom or a meeting. The teacher or the meeting leader says something incorrect in your opinion, which of the following is the best thing to do?•Interrupt and correct the mistake right away.•Wait until the class or 71
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...which will be decribed in this report. First of all, the passage points out tha...
^^^
Line 3, column 304, Rule ID: NODT_DOZEN[1]
Message: Use simply: 'a dozen'.
Suggestion: a dozen
...y due to the reason that they could use dozen of small copper sheets to produce this ...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 149, Rule ID: IS_SHOULD[1]
Message: Did you mean 'it'?
Suggestion: it
... long time to set a ship on fire and it is should be considered that the Romans sh...
^^
Line 7, column 86, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'weapons'?
Suggestion: weapons
...e ancient Greek there are more advanced weapon like flaming arrow to use instead of th...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 130, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...on like flaming arrow to use instead of this mirrors, the professor disagrees by men...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, second, so, still, therefore, in contrast, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1455.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 312.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.66346153846 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.10890372807 2.5805825403 82% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483974358974 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 436.5 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => 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: 34.0 21.2450331126 160% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 92.2265059246 49.2860985944 187% => OK
Chars per sentence: 161.666666667 110.228320801 147% => OK
Words per sentence: 34.6666666667 21.698381199 160% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.4444444444 7.06452816374 162% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.32996200368 0.272083759551 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.151372431546 0.0996497079465 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0780170240985 0.0662205650399 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.20433347436 0.162205337803 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.040686339232 0.0443174109184 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.9 13.3589403974 134% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.89 53.8541721854 100% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.34 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.6 10.498013245 149% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 11.2008830022 161% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.