The author in the passage states that communal online encyclopedias have cornucopia of problems which make them less valuable than traditional printed encyclopedias. Three prominent reasons stated in the passage for author's opinion are inaccuracy due to lack of academic credentials of contributors, modification of original entry and focus on trivial & popular topics.
The passage states that the contributors to communal online encyclopedias often lack academic credentials and the contributions are inaccurate to which speaker responds by stating that the idea online encyclopedias have never been perfect is largely because of the result of prejudice about the online content and their contributors. The speaker says that printed encyclopedias have never always been adequate. Errors in online encyclopedias are easy to be corrected whereas errors in printed form may remain up to decades.
On the modification of original entry, the speaker refutes it by saying that the crucial facts in the content cannot be modified or changed by anyone. Also, the online content is being reviewed regularly to eliminate any malicious changes in these encyclopedias.
Finally, the speaker states that space is not an issue for online encyclopedias and great diversity of users is one of the main advantages to large knowledge sources whereas the passage states that traditional encyclopedias provide considered view of what topics to be included or excluded.
- Hail—pieces of ice that form and fall from clouds instead of snow or rain—has always been a problem for farmers in some areas of the United States. Hail pellets can fall with great force and destroy crops in the field. Over the last few decades, a met 70
- At the end of the Triassic period 200 million years ago, there was a mass-extinction event that caused the extinction of more than half of all living species. It was this extinction event that allowed dinosaurs to become the dominant species for the next 81
- Superpower food -integrated food 42
- Professors are normally found in university classrooms, offices, and libraries doing research and lecturing to their students. More and more, however, they also appear as guests on television news programs, giving expert commentary on the latest events in 86
- In 1957 a European silver coin dating to the eleventh century was discovered at a Native American archaeological site in the state of Maine in the United States. Many people believed the coin had been originally brought to North America by European explor 71
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, if, may, so, whereas
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => 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: 1239.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 220.0 270.72406181 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.63181818182 5.08290768461 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.85128510684 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10353147537 2.5805825403 120% => OK
Unique words: 122.0 145.348785872 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.554545454545 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 408.6 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.55342163355 122% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 84.6917203745 49.2860985944 172% => OK
Chars per sentence: 154.875 110.228320801 141% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.5 21.698381199 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 7.06452816374 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.207719935106 0.272083759551 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0969573674485 0.0996497079465 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0579343662923 0.0662205650399 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.125005634686 0.162205337803 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0545170729682 0.0443174109184 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.8 13.3589403974 141% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 18.69 53.8541721854 35% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 13.0 5.55761589404 234% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.4 11.0289183223 158% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.67 12.2367328918 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.71 8.42419426049 115% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 22.0 10.7273730684 205% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.