Essay topics: 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 explorers known as the Norse, who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and came into contact with Native Americans almost a thousand years ago.
However, some archaeologists believe that the coin is not a genuine piece of historical evidence but a historical fake; they think that the coin was placed at the site recently by someone who wanted to mislead the public. There are three main reasons why some archaeologists believe that the coin is not genuine historical evidence.
Great Distance from Norse Settlements
First, the Native American site in Maine where the coin was discovered is located very far from other sites documenting a Norse presence in North America. Remains of Norse settlements have been discovered in far eastern Canada. The distance between the Maine site and the Norse settlements in Canada is more than a thousand kilometers, suggesting the coin has no real connection with the settlements.
No Other Coins Found
A second problem is that no other coins have been found at the Canadian sites that were inhabited by the Norse. This suggests that the Norse did not bring any silver coins with them to their North American settlements.
Third, the Norse who traveled to North America would have understood that silver coins would most likely be useless to them. Sitver coins may have been in wide use in Europe at the time, but the Norse, as experienced explorers, would have known that native North Americans did not recognize silver coins as money.
The reading asserts that it is unlikely to believe that the European silver coin which has been found in a native American archeological site in Maine state is genuine, and it seems to be fake. The passage maintains that is not valid historical evidence and it was put there by someone who wants to attract attention. The speaker, however, finds the idea dubious and casts doubt on the reasons proposed by the reading passage.
First of all, the author of tاe passage argues that the site in which the coin was discovered is too far from other sites that indicate Norse presence in North America. On the contrary, the lecturer brings up the fact that the great distance is not a problem. There are many other objects that had come to North America by travelers of the region. They liked to collect objects from other areas.
Furthermore, the reading holds the view that no other coins have been found in the at the Canadian sites that were inhabited by Norse. In contrast, the speaker underlines the fact that European came to North America and then they got back home. It is not far from the imagination that they packed everything up, including the silver coins, and took them back home.
Finally, it is stated in the passage that the silver coin had no use in North America because they did not acknowledge it as an official currency. Conversely, the lecturer dismisses the issue regarding the fact that it might be true that North American people did not use the coins as money, but they did like to grab valuable unusual objects. The coin is made of silver, so it is beautiful. Additionally, Europeans could use the coin as an object for trading goods in North America.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 178, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'seems'?
Suggestion: seems
... site in Maine state is genuine, and it seem to be fake.The passage maintains that i...
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Line 1, column 194, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...tate is genuine, and it seem to be fake.The passage maintains that is not a valid h...
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Line 1, column 321, 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.
...omeone who wants to attract attentions. The speaker, however, finds the idea dubiou...
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Line 4, column 121, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'did' requires the base form of the verb: 'acknowledge'
Suggestion: acknowledge
...erica due to the fact that they did not acknowledged it as an official curency. Conversely, ...
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Line 4, column 228, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...misses the issue regarding the fact that it might be true that North American poe...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, conversely, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, really, regarding, so, then, in contrast, first of all, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1411.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 303.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.65676567657 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44683806645 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514851485149 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 445.5 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
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: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.4719093268 49.2860985944 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.538461538 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3076923077 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.7692307692 7.06452816374 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.29765887819 0.272083759551 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0987270517776 0.0996497079465 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0715938833131 0.0662205650399 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168924287997 0.162205337803 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0310013884861 0.0443174109184 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.04 12.2367328918 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 10.7273730684 172% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.