The reading states that the European silver coin discovered at Maine in United states in 1957 is not a genuine piece of historical evidence which would tell that Norse came in contact with native Americans thousands of years ago. Thus, he gives reasons for the support. However, the professor explains that the evidence is not fake but genuine and refutes each of the points mentioned in the article.
First, the author posits that the coin discovered in Maine was thousands of kilometres away from the Norse settlement which was in north Canada . This suggests that there is no real connection of the coin with Norse settlement. However, the lecturer points out that there were other objects found on the same site other than the silver coin. Thus she explains that the norse settlers would have travelled different sites, one of which was north Canada. And later they would have travelled to Maine, where the coin was found.
Second, the reading avers that there were no other coins discovered at the Canadian site which was supposedly inhabited by Norse. The professor rebuts this argument by saying that this does not necessarily say that the coin is fake. She mentions that Norse did not permanently settle in North America and might have travelled back to Europe. While packing their personal belongings, they would have packed all the coins which they had brought to North America and took back with them.
Finally, the author claims that Norse might have thought that the silver coins would be useless to Native americans and they would not recognise it as money. The professor says that even though, the native americans would not have viewed it as money, yet, Norse knew that they would value the attractive and unusual objects. As native americans found these coins to be appealing for beauty, Norse used these coins to trade with them.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 144, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...rse settlement which was in north Canada . This suggests that there is no real con...
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Line 2, column 342, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...e same site other than the silver coin. Thus she explains that the norse settlers wo...
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Line 3, column 362, Rule ID: PERSONAL_OPINION_FRIENDSHIP[1]
Message: Use simply 'belongings'.
Suggestion: belongings
...led back to Europe. While packing their personal belongings, they would have packed all the coins w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, second, so, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1540.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 312.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9358974359 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.23358103477 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490384615385 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 466.2 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.0813184571 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.666666667 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.8 7.06452816374 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => 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: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.271347921278 0.272083759551 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0935401406094 0.0996497079465 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0731561397468 0.0662205650399 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17389524006 0.162205337803 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0299617926057 0.0443174109184 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.77 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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