TOEFL TPO28 Integrated
Both the reading and the article deal with the issue that whether Peary had reached the North Pole in 1909 or not. The article proposes three arguments to support that Peary did reach the pole, yet the lecturer cast doubt on them and provides three counterarguments respectively.
To begin with, the article mentions that the committee confirmed Peary's accounts that he reached the north pole. In contrast, the lecturer argues that the committee is not objective because it funded Peary's trip and the committee did not examine the records carefully. And that is the contradiction between the article and the lecture.
While the author mentions that a recent expedition and Tom Avery's trek support pear's claim, the speaker holds a different viewpoint. The lecturer contends that avery and peary travel differently. To be more specific, Avery did not carry as much weight as Peary did because the food was dropped by airplane. In addition, Avery traveled in a favorable climate condition but Peary did not. With that in mind, the lecturer does not agree with what is mentioned in the article.
Thirdly, the author accounts that Sun's position calculated from Peary's photo provides strong evidence that he reached the pole. However, the lecturer illustrates that the photo was 100 years ago taken by the primitive camera. In other words, the photo is fuzzy and the shadow in the photo faded and is too blurred. By mentioning that the evidence is unable to establish accurately, the scholar opposed the point made in the article.
To sum up, the author and the lecturer share different opinions over the issue of Peary's claim. Armed with the counterarguments, the speaker voices her dissent and contends the three points made in the passage.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 92, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...and Tom Averys trek support pears claim, the speaker holds a different viewpoint....
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Line 17, column 212, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s the three points made in the passage.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, third, thirdly, while, in addition, in contrast, in other words, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1475.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 288.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12152777778 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60135728091 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510416666667 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
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: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 2.5761589404 311% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.8811652375 49.2860985944 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 92.1875 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6875 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.365842040296 0.272083759551 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121442644791 0.0996497079465 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112190943539 0.0662205650399 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.20462647793 0.162205337803 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0768901054661 0.0443174109184 173% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.12 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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