Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on points made in the reading.
The lecture is about interrogating the ideas of portraying emperor Claudius as an epitome of innovation, wise and fair in the reading. The lecturer criticizes the recent reading with his points, saying his reign was actually more clearly pictured by the authors of his time. He criticizes the idea that Claudius was innovative by putting points like- he paid the army after assassination of the previous emperor, which was a terrible act. Also, Claudius's portrayal as fair is contradicted by the facts that he loved violent gladiator for pleasure, was a notorious judge who was indifferent to both sides of the issue and used to take biased decision. He also conquered Britain and destroyed it's indigenous people to pacify his ego and prestige. Adding to the criticism, the lecturer also posits that although Claudius involved slaves and former slaves in politics, they were mostly corrupt and susceptible to bribery. This clearly shows that it was not a prudent step taken by Claudius. His wives were mostly murderous. His last wife even tried to poison him with virulent mushroom. Adding to these, choosing Nero as his next heir cogently depicts how unwise his decisions and judgement were. These points made by the lecturer contradicts the idea of portraying Claudius as innovative, fair and wise in the reading.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, if, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1100.0 1373.03311258 80% => OK
No of words: 216.0 270.72406181 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09259259259 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.83365862548 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7149689209 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.615740740741 0.540411800872 114% => OK
syllable_count: 342.0 419.366225166 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 8.23620309051 36% => 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: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.4854123436 49.2860985944 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.0 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6363636364 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.0 7.06452816374 28% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 1.0 4.09492273731 24% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.108446256453 0.272083759551 40% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0439287090325 0.0996497079465 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0713118040601 0.0662205650399 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108446256453 0.162205337803 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.4 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
Read sample essays from ETS:
http://www.testbig.com/users/toeflwritingmaster
Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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