Essay - The Sydney Opera House

The reading and lecture are both about the opera house. The reading describes the history of Sydney opera house . The author states that the design was selected from an international competition where more than 230 design were submitted. The author further mentions that design selected was made by John Utzon. He believes that the design should fit into the environment.

The author mentions that the construction of the roof of the Sydney opera house took many years to complete. There were many difficulties faced and they had to rework the details for construction of the roof so that they can help engineers solve the problem related to actually building them. In addition the computer technology was also burgeoning with the complex structural calculations which also created a problem in the construction of the roof.

The lecturer mentions that she feels that the opera house is in form of a master work created. It has the design of the modern century.She further adds that the function of the sailing ship is to please the eye and not to function.She believes that it as mixture of art and architect, engineer and technology.It was the design which was extra ordinary and beautiful built in the 20th century.

In conclusion, the reading passage describes the difficulties faced while constructing the Sydney opera house and lecturer feels that the opera house is one of a kind.

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Average: 6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 112, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...cribes the history of Sydney opera house . The author states that the design was s...
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Line 1, column 115, 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.
...bes the history of Sydney opera house . The author states that the design was selec...
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Line 1, column 239, 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.
...re more than 230 design were submitted. The author further mentions that design sel...
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Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...esign should fit into the environment. The author mentions that the constructio...
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Line 3, column 297, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[2]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: addition,
...m related to actually building them. In addition the computer technology was also burgeo...
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Line 5, column 136, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: She
...It has the design of the modern century.She further adds that the function of the s...
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Line 5, column 232, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: She
...s to please the eye and not to function.She believes that it as mixture of art and ...
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Line 5, column 310, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: It
... and architect, engineer and technology.It was the design which was extra ordinary...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, if, so, while, in addition, in conclusion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1165.0 1373.03311258 85% => OK
No of words: 231.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04329004329 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89854898053 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72661593427 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 120.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.519480519481 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 354.6 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => 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: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.8133284298 49.2860985944 142% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.909090909 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.18181818182 7.06452816374 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.258940137278 0.272083759551 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.132895562663 0.0996497079465 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.167675957979 0.0662205650399 253% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188116328476 0.162205337803 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.120857037122 0.0443174109184 273% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 63.6247240618 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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