Tpo30
Both the reading and lecture discuss the feasibility of ingenious weapon, burning mirror, used by the Greeks to fire Roman's ships. While the author believes that the story is a myth and on that time a device like it had not been invented, the lecturer refutes his ideas and claims that there are unconvincing.
To begin with, the author asserts that during that time, technology was not so advance to make such large mirrors. The mirror should have been several meter width to focus the sunlight and set the ships on fire. on the other hand, the lecturer says that single sheets can form a large mirror had able to set the Roman navy on fire.
Secondly, the reading assumes that it would take a long time to fire the ships by just a large mirror. Since the professor believes that since the other materials like sticky substance which fire on just seconds had been used in Roman's ships, it is possible that mirrors set them on fire which had caused the entire ship to burn.
Finally, the writer says that such a weapon does not seem an improvement on the weapons that Greeks already had. However, the professor claims that the Greeks were familiar with fire arrows. Fire arrows could be observed easily. In order to surprise their enemies, they had used mirrors which were more effective.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...nd claims that there are unconvincing. To begin with, the author asserts that ...
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...the sunlight and set the ships on fire. on the other hand, the lecturer says that ...
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... able to set the Roman navy on fire. Secondly, the reading assumes that it wo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, second, secondly, so, while, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => 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: 1070.0 1373.03311258 78% => OK
No of words: 228.0 270.72406181 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.69298245614 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.88582923847 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.15059026162 2.5805825403 83% => OK
Unique words: 128.0 145.348785872 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.561403508772 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 329.4 419.366225166 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
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: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.1955383553 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.2727272727 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7272727273 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.18181818182 7.06452816374 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => 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: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.489776002055 0.272083759551 180% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.179674557764 0.0996497079465 180% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0779591492498 0.0662205650399 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.28803265655 0.162205337803 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0488793639479 0.0443174109184 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 53.8541721854 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.92 12.2367328918 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 45.0 63.6247240618 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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