The reading passage and the listening passage here discuss about the attribution of a painting of a woman John Whistler. The article claims that the painting is painted by Whistler and gives corresponding reasons. However, the professor in the audio challenges this claim by providing contradictory arguments each of the reasons.
To begin with, the author mentions that the painting was displayed in an art exhibition held by one of the Whistler’s closest friends after Whistler’s death. The article goes on to mention that because of this, it makes sense to attribute the the painting to Whistler. The professor opposes this claim by bringing up that point that the exhibition included not only Whistler’s paintings but of many others which were owned by the person holding the exhibition. For this reason, we cant just attribute the painting to Whistler just because it was included in the exhibition.
Secondly, the article mentions that the woman in the painting is same as the woman in the Whistler’s painting “Symphony in the White” and also the monochromatic style in it resembles with Whistler’s works. Further, the writer claims this should mean the painting is indeed painted by Whistler. The professor rebuts this reasoning. He underscores the point that the woman used in the paintings is a famous artistic model of that time was used in many paintings, also the monochromatic style is also a popular style of the time. He goes to say, consequently, these do not stand as an evidence for the painting being one of Whistler’s works.
Finally, the author notes that a small butterfly structure was used by Whistler in his paintings as a signature and this was present in this painting too. Further, the article claims that this should mean it was indeed Whistler’s work. The professor undermines this argument by highlighting the fact that the butterfly in this painting is totally of different shape and colour and is in a different place than that were present in Whistler’s paintings. Furthermore, he brings up the point that, research has revealed that this butterfly was added much later after the original painting was made and is perhaps a forgery that was made to make it look like a work of Whistler.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...se of this, it makes sense to attribute the the painting to Whistler. The professor opp...
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Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...se of this, it makes sense to attribute the the painting to Whistler. The professor opp...
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...ing the exhibition. For this reason, we cant just attribute the painting to Whistler...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...r notes that a small butterfly structure was used by Whistler in his paintings as...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, furthermore, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 22.412803532 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1909.0 1373.03311258 139% => OK
No of words: 371.0 270.72406181 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.14555256065 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38877662729 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09039259146 2.5805825403 120% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.423180592992 0.540411800872 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 567.0 419.366225166 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.7283800568 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.3125 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1875 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.3125 7.06452816374 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.27373068433 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.102598083876 0.272083759551 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0455904697684 0.0996497079465 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0314286659007 0.0662205650399 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0757745283455 0.162205337803 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0257306069026 0.0443174109184 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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