The text and the lecture give contrasting views on the reliability of Chevalier’s memoir. The text suggests that the memoir is an inaccurate document while the professor, on the other hand, thinks that the memoir is an accurate record. The professor provides counter-arguments on each idea presented in the reading.
Firstly, the author says that Chevalier is not wealthy at all because he thinks Chevalier borrowed a significant amount of money for parties and gambling. However, the professor says that his wealthiness comes in the form of property and this requires few days to exchange into the cash form. The professor suggests this is why he needs to borrow some money while waiting for his property converted into cash.
Secondly, the reading states that it is not possible for Chevalier to record the conversation between him and Voltaire. The author feels its account is not precise because it would have been impossible for Chevalier to memorize all of their conversations many years after the initial meeting. However, the professor counters this idea by saying that Chevalier recorded his conversations directly after the occurrence. In addition, he often regularly consulted his conversations.
Finally, the text suggests that Chevalier account's of him escaping a prison is not accurate. Instead, the author thinks he has strong political friends that help him to bribe guards in the well-known prison. On the other hand, the professor responds that prisoners with stronger political allies cannot bribe their way for freedom and thus it is impossible for Chevalier to escape with this particular method. Instead, the professor says Chevalier's account is accurate because soon after he escaped, the jailers had the ceilling hole fixed.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 242, 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.
... that the memoir is an accurate record. The professor provides counter-arguments on...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, well, while, in addition, 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: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1486.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 277.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36462093863 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87802851453 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527075812274 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 446.4 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.869733134 49.2860985944 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.142857143 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7857142857 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.78571428571 7.06452816374 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.170196478057 0.272083759551 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0670286956219 0.0996497079465 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0367760781654 0.0662205650399 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107908592578 0.162205337803 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.028433603205 0.0443174109184 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
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: 13.81 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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