Greek weapon called a '' burning mirror
The reading claims that the Greeks did not have a weapon called ‘’Burning mirror’’ due to some reasons.However, the lecturer finds all the ideas dubious and presents some evidence to refute them all.
The author argues that the Greek did not have enough technologies to produce such a weapon, as this mirror should be wide up to several meters, have parabolic curvature, and it should be made by a large sheet of copper. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the idea that this reason is highly questionable due to the fact that there is no need to make this mirror from a single sheet. Instead, they could make it from a dozen peace of polished copper and assembled them to have a parabolic shape.
Furthermore, the reading passage holds the view that the evidence shows that it takes a long time for a mirror to burn a wooden ship also the ship should be in the same position to be burned by this mirror. The professor underlines the fact that this argument is not convincing since although it is right that it takes 10 minutes for wood to be burned, Roman used a sticky material named pitch in making their ships to waterproof them, and this matter burns in just one second. As a result when the pitch burns the flame would spread to the other part of ships quickly as possible
Finally, the reading asserts that since the Greeks had flaming arrows which serve the same purpose as the burning mirror; hence, they had no need for this mirror.In contrast, the speaker dismisses this issue due to the fact that this mirror is much more effective since Roman did know the flaming arrows and can see them. Therefore, they prepared to cut down the fire caused by this weapon as soon as they could. In contrast, by using the burning mirror the Roman did not see the weapon so as to be prepared. The only thing that they encounter is a surprising fire which they did not know the exact source of it.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 124, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: However
... mirror'' due to some reasons.However, the lecturer finds all the ideas dubio...
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Line 4, column 163, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: In
...hence, they had no need for this mirror.In contrast, the speaker dismisses this is...
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Line 4, column 488, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...mirror the Roman did not see the weapon so as to be prepared. The only thing that they e...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'conversely', 'finally', 'furthermore', 'hence', 'however', 'second', 'so', 'therefore', 'as to', 'in contrast', 'as a result']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.226315789474 0.261695866417 86% => OK
Verbs: 0.171052631579 0.158904122519 108% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0684210526316 0.0723426182421 95% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0473684210526 0.0435111971325 109% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0447368421053 0.0277247811725 161% => OK
Prepositions: 0.102631578947 0.128828473217 80% => OK
Participles: 0.0263157894737 0.0370669169778 71% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.53964142718 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0394736842105 0.0208969081088 189% => Less infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.00526315789474 0.00154638098197 340% => OK
Determiners: 0.155263157895 0.128158765124 121% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0184210526316 0.0158828679856 116% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00789473684211 0.0114777025283 69% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1913.0 1645.83664459 116% => OK
No of words: 343.0 271.125827815 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.57725947522 6.08160592843 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.04852973271 106% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.291545189504 0.374372842146 78% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.177842565598 0.287516216867 62% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.110787172012 0.187439937562 59% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.069970845481 0.113142543107 62% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53964142718 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 145.348785872 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504373177843 0.539623497131 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 52.6562378961 53.8517498576 98% => OK
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0529801325 77% => OK
Sentence length: 34.3 21.7502111507 158% => OK
Sentence length SD: 98.4060973721 49.3711431718 199% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 191.3 132.220823453 145% => OK
Words per sentence: 34.3 21.7502111507 158% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.2 0.878197800319 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.39072847682 88% => OK
Readability: 52.0842565598 50.5018328374 103% => OK
Elegance: 1.35 1.90840788429 71% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132319754035 0.549887131256 24% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.182600304171 0.142949733639 128% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.076705448199 0.0787303798458 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.679423875589 0.631733273073 108% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.155605745357 0.139662658121 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0712848163015 0.266732575781 27% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101716429601 0.103435571967 98% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.424244851697 0.414875509568 102% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.106255322235 0.0530846634433 200% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128406896664 0.40443939384 32% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.133886628496 0.0528353158467 253% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.26048565121 23% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 2.0 3.49668874172 57% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.62251655629 83% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 3.1766004415 31% => OK
Total topic words: 6.0 10.2958057395 58% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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