The reading and lecture are both about the comics being an art form unique to America. The author of the reading provides three explanations supporting his argument. The speaker challenges the claims made by the author. He suggests that these explanations are incorrect.
To begin with, the author states that the first commercially successful comic strip was Hogen’s Alley which was created by an American cartoonist and is published/printed by an American newspaper in 1890. This specific argument is challenged by the speaker. He says that the first popular comic strip commercially was in Britain and Switzerland way back in 1790. Additionally, he says that cartoonists and publishers for Hogen’s Alley were Immigrants and not native Americans.
Secondly, the writer suggests that the first popular comic book “Actions Comics” is also American. He further mentions that this comic book featured an American created first hero “Superman”. The speaker, however, disagrees with this by mentioning that 16 years before the release of “Action Comics”, there was a comic book “Adventures of Tin Tin” released in Belgium which is still a popular comic book and it predates the Superman character. He further contradicts by bringing up that artist who created Superman was a Canadian and not American.
Finally, the author articulates that Americans invented and exported comic art to the rest of the world. Moreover, in the article, it is stated that Japanese and European comics were influenced by American comics. In contrast, the speaker’s position is that Japanese comics were influenced by Traditional Asian arts. Further, asterisks and smurfs are drawn by European cartoonists in European comics. So, he notes that comics in the rest of the world are not influenced by American comics.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 167, 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.
...e explanations supporting his argument. The speaker challenges the claims made by t...
^^^
Line 5, column 340, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: Tin
..., there was a comic book “Adventures of Tin Tin” released in Belgium which is still a p...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 9.8082437276 0% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 43.0788530466 58% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 52.1666666667 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1537.0 1977.66487455 78% => OK
No of words: 283.0 407.700716846 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.43109540636 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.48103885553 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97174195281 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 212.727598566 67% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.505300353357 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 459.9 618.680645161 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.175523994 48.9658058833 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.4117647059 100.406767564 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6470588235 20.6045352989 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.88235294118 5.45110844103 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0217215199755 0.236089414692 9% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00825374934599 0.076458572812 11% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.015765230423 0.0737576698707 21% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0147104441053 0.150856017488 10% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00876719681909 0.0645574589148 14% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 11.7677419355 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 58.1214874552 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 10.9000537634 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 86.8835125448 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
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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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 167, 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.
...e explanations supporting his argument. The speaker challenges the claims made by t...
^^^
Line 5, column 340, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: Tin
..., there was a comic book “Adventures of Tin Tin” released in Belgium which is still a p...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 9.8082437276 0% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 43.0788530466 58% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 52.1666666667 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1537.0 1977.66487455 78% => OK
No of words: 283.0 407.700716846 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.43109540636 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.48103885553 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97174195281 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 212.727598566 67% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.505300353357 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 459.9 618.680645161 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.175523994 48.9658058833 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.4117647059 100.406767564 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6470588235 20.6045352989 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.88235294118 5.45110844103 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0217215199755 0.236089414692 9% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00825374934599 0.076458572812 11% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.015765230423 0.0737576698707 21% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0147104441053 0.150856017488 10% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00876719681909 0.0645574589148 14% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 11.7677419355 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 58.1214874552 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 10.9000537634 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 86.8835125448 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
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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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.