The reading and the lecture discuss the accuracy of a memoir written by Chevalier de Seingalt about his life which also became a masterpiece of history about European society. The author believes that Chevalier created stories exaggerating the reality in order to achieve more fame. The professor brings into question the claims made in the article. He considers that the memoir is both accurate and reliable overall.
First, the author comes up with the idea that Chevalier was not very wealthy as he translates into this memoir. It is mentioned that he borrowed large amounts of money from a Swiss merchant. So, if he was really rich Why did he need to borrow that money?. However, the professor argues that, in the beginning, Chevalier was poor and he started asking for money to people in order to buy assets and to then transform them into real money, thus generating real wealth.
Second, the author states that the precision of exposing the details from the conversations he had with Voltaire in the memoir is an object of doubts because he wrote them years later those occurred. Therefore, how could not have had remembered everything at the moment of writing. The professor rebuts this argument by pointing out that Chevalier in every conversation took notes with the purpose of then revising them. So, the memoir’s conversation details were referred from those notes.
Finally, the author contends that Chevalier’s prison escape, by making a hole in the ceiling and then climbing through it, was incredible and that its purpose was just enjoying the public with such a story. On the other hand, he could have escaped by asking help to his politician friends to bribe jailers. The professor, in contrast, posits that there have had more powerful people than him who have had more connection with politicians and could not have escaped from prison. Besides, it is known that the jailers needed to repair the ceiling of the prison after he escaped, so, it is clear that Chevalier escaped from the prison by climbing through the roof.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 284, 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.
... reality in order to achieve more fame. The professor brings into question the clai...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, however, if, really, second, so, then, therefore, thus, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 22.412803532 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 30.3222958057 168% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1718.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 344.0 270.72406181 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99418604651 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30665032142 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57292240297 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 145.348785872 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549418604651 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 524.7 419.366225166 125% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.9884246853 49.2860985944 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.375 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.625 7.06452816374 108% => 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 : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
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: 0.461509974935 0.272083759551 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.139299438338 0.0996497079465 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0495774246279 0.0662205650399 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.265528187113 0.162205337803 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0248619935446 0.0443174109184 56% => OK
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: 11.66 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 63.6247240618 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => 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: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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