Toward the end of his life the Chevalier de Seingalt 1725 1798 wrote a long memoir recounting his life and adventures The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure but since he met many famous people including kings and writers his memoir has become a
The reading and the lecture are both about Chevalier de Seingalt's memoir. The author provides three examples of why his memoir cannot be trusted. The lecturer challenges the statements made by the author. Her position is that his memoir is accurate and a valuable historical source.
According to the reading Chevalier used to borrow huge sums of money. The article mentions that a really rich person, would not need to borrow money. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that his wealthy came mainly from physical assets. Additionally, he points out that these assets took some time to sell, like lands for example, and that he borrowed money for liquidity purposes, only until he received his money.
Secondly, the author suggests that the conversations depicted in the memoir are not accurate, like the one between Chevalier de Seingalt and Voltaire. The article notes that there is no doubt that they met, but the memoir was written many years later, so it is impossible to recall exact phrases. The lecturer, however, asserts that Seingalt, right after these conversations happened, wrote them down. He elaborates on this by mentioning that during the time the memoir was being written, Seingalt kept checking his notes, so he could better describe what happened.
Finally, it is stated in the article that his escape from the prison through the roof is not likely. The author establishes that it is more probable that jailers were bribed, by friends with political power, to set him free. In contrast, the lecturer's stance is that the escape happened as written. He notes that other prisoners had friends with bigger political power that never escaped, and also that old documents from Venice states that the ceiling had to be repaired after his escape.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 147, 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.
...es of why his memoir cannot be trusted. The lecturer challenges the statements made...
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Line 7, column 243, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lecturers'' or 'lecturer's'?
Suggestion: lecturers'; lecturer's
...ower, to set him free. In contrast, the lecturers stance is that the escape happened as w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, really, second, secondly, so, for example, in contrast, no doubt
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 22.412803532 192% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => 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: 1492.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 294.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07482993197 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48646667865 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.602040816327 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 456.3 419.366225166 109% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
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: 44.5644822654 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.7647058824 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2941176471 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47058823529 7.06452816374 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.263029110806 0.272083759551 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0784371087625 0.0996497079465 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0634587434159 0.0662205650399 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157805353932 0.162205337803 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.071546134702 0.0443174109184 161% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.83 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 4.5 10.7273730684 42% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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