burning mirror
Some controversy has been generated about whether or not the Greek used buring mirror to defend themselves. The reading states that the Greek did not use a burning mirror for three possible reasons. However, the professor arguse that none of the three points are convincing.
The first point of dispute is if Greeks were sophisticated enough to create the burning mirror. The lecturer explains that what the writer said about the advanceness of the ancient Greeks is totally wrong. The ancient Greek were able to use small pices of the mirrors to make a large parabolic curvature. By contrast, the writer casts doubt on this claim by saying that making a such device was impossible during the ancient time.
The second controversial issue is about the length of the time that burning mirror was needed to start a fire. According to the professor, the reading passage only present the starting fire in wood parts of the ship. Yet, shipes were actually made of several materials. So the burning mirror can start a fire on a ship in just secondes if it ctachs the pitch which is the substance that used to glue the wood parts together. On the other hand, the author claims that a device such as burning mirror would not have been good enough to start fire quickly.
The final point of debate is the question of using burning mirror instead of the flaming arrow. The speaker posits that the ancient Greeks could have used new type of weapon because Roman navy would notice the flaming arrow, and they could put off the fire. However, using the burning mirror happens in seconds without allowing the Romans to see it. Thus, burning mirror could have been much effective as weapoin than the flaming arrow. Despite that possible rationale, the author ignores these potential explanations.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 43, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...me controversy has been generated about whether or not the Greek used buring mirror to defend ...
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Line 3, column 207, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...of the ancient Greeks is totally wrong. The ancient Greek were able to use small pi...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, however, if, second, so, thus, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1494.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 305.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89836065574 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31918027572 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.540983606557 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 448.2 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => 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: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.3415153802 49.2860985944 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 87.8823529412 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9411764706 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.35294117647 7.06452816374 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.413338594267 0.272083759551 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.156449369806 0.0996497079465 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.143740745469 0.0662205650399 217% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.263510636563 0.162205337803 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0497294217955 0.0443174109184 112% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 13.3589403974 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.84 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.53 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => 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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