The reading and the lecture are both about the vessels found in 1938 that is believed to be used as batteries 2200 years ago. The author of the reading feels that it is not likely that the vessels were actually used as batteries. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. She believes that these vessels were used as batteries and discusses some evidences.
To begin with, the author argues that the vessels were not used as batteries, they would probably have been attached to some electricity conductors such as metal wires. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims they found something but they do not know that’s value so they through out it.
Secondly, the writer suggests the copper cylinders inside the jars look exactly like copper cylinders discovered in the ruins of Seleucia, an ancient city located nearby and this was used as a holding of sacred text. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that these vessels were used as containers first but they used it too as a battery when they found out that it could produce electric shock when filled with liquid.
Finally, the author posits that the ancient peopledid not use electric because there were no devices, thus it is useless. In contrast, the lecturer’s position is that people used because of its shock as an invisible power and healing.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 231, 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.
...essels were actually used as batteries. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Line 3, column 302, Rule ID: THROUGH_OUT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'throughout'?
Suggestion: throughout
...y do not know that's value so they through out it. Secondly, the writer suggests th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, thus, in contrast, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 21.0 30.3222958057 69% => 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: 1144.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 230.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97391304348 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89432290496 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49686381737 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.569565217391 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 351.0 419.366225166 84% => 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: 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: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.3400133558 49.2860985944 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.0 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9090909091 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.2727272727 7.06452816374 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0994888890843 0.272083759551 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0384388259531 0.0996497079465 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0453768728904 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0595760054685 0.162205337803 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0352901355469 0.0443174109184 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => 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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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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