In this set of material, the reading passage states that a set of clay jars excavated in a railroad line in Iraq and despite of archaeologists’ suggestion, the writer believes that it is not likely to be an ancient electrical battery. However, the lecturer finds all the idea skeptical and provides some evidence to refute them all.
First of all, the author of the passage claims that no metal wires were located near the vessels which is necessary for electricity conducting. In contrast, the lecturer argues that local people found this archaic jars and they were not trained to collect every part of jars. It is more possible that they threw them away because they felt that it is uninteresting. So, native people could not recognize the importance of metal wires and left them at the original place.
Furthermore, it is mentioned in the reading passage that jars look like copper cylinders which were used for holding scrolls. On the contrary, the lecturer contends that perhaps their original application were holding scrolls but people discovered a new usage for them later and produced electricity. Hence, some different applications are assumed for jars.
Finally, the reading asserts that electricity was not useful for ancient people because they did not have any associated devices. Conversely, the lecturer claims that they could use battery for shocking or tingling to show their magical power. In addition, doctors could use mild electricity for healing such as relieving pain and ache from muscles. In fact, their usage might be limited to simple needs.
Essay evaluation report
a set of clay jars excavated in a railroad line
a set of clay jars are excavated in a railroad line
no metal wires were located near the vessels which is necessary for electricity conducting
no metal wires were located near the vessels which are necessary for electricity conducting
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 25 in 30
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 12
No. of Words: 257 250
No. of Characters: 1283 1200
No. of Different Words: 147 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.004 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.992 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.534 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 76 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 43 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 24 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.769 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.817 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.846 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.33 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.557 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.099 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4
Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'conversely', 'finally', 'first', 'furthermore', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'so', 'in addition', 'in contrast', 'in fact', 'such as', 'first of all', 'on the contrary']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.234265734266 0.261695866417 90% => OK
Verbs: 0.185314685315 0.158904122519 117% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0699300699301 0.0723426182421 97% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0524475524476 0.0435111971325 121% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0559440559441 0.0277247811725 202% => OK
Prepositions: 0.136363636364 0.128828473217 106% => OK
Participles: 0.0524475524476 0.0370669169778 141% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.7293605061 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0174825174825 0.0208969081088 84% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0944055944056 0.128158765124 74% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.013986013986 0.0158828679856 88% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0104895104895 0.0114777025283 91% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1585.0 1645.83664459 96% => OK
No of words: 257.0 271.125827815 95% => OK
Chars per words: 6.1673151751 6.08160592843 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.04852973271 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.373540856031 0.374372842146 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.295719844358 0.287516216867 103% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.190661478599 0.187439937562 102% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.108949416342 0.113142543107 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7293605061 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587548638132 0.539623497131 109% => OK
Word variations: 60.6345611818 53.8517498576 113% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0529801325 100% => OK
Sentence length: 19.7692307692 21.7502111507 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.4467628059 49.3711431718 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.923076923 132.220823453 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7692307692 21.7502111507 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.23076923077 0.878197800319 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.39072847682 0% => OK
Readability: 49.341215205 50.5018328374 98% => OK
Elegance: 1.44047619048 1.90840788429 75% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.6376762672 0.549887131256 116% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0859440040041 0.142949733639 60% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0557596865637 0.0787303798458 71% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.53582000656 0.631733273073 85% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.134811361199 0.139662658121 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.244364527453 0.266732575781 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.12711781269 0.103435571967 123% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.327490329441 0.414875509568 79% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0779685178022 0.0530846634433 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.420842088401 0.40443939384 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0826036598877 0.0528353158467 156% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.26048565121 70% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 3.49668874172 86% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 3.62251655629 166% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 3.1766004415 31% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 10.2958057395 97% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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