Both the reading and the listening discuss the credibility of the claim made by the explorer Robert E. Peray that he reached the North Pole on 07th April, 1909. The author believes that Peay's claim is correct and provides three reasons for support. The lecturer challenges the statements made by the author. She is of the opinion none of the se reasons are convincing.
To begin with, the author suggests that the National Geographic Society formed committee declared that Peary's claim is accurate. This declaration was announced
that based on the intensive investigation that was performed by the committee. The lecturer challenges this specific argument by asserting that the committee was not objective and the members of this committee were Peary's close friends and some of them financially sponsored Peray's expedition. In addition, She mentions that the committee took only two days to examine the records and even Peary mentioned that the committee did not examine the records carefully. Therefore, their conclusion is biased and untrustworthy.
Secondly, the writer argues that the success of the recent expedition of Tom Avery supports that Peary reached the North Pole in 37 days since all the conditions and equipment were similar. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by claiming that Avery's expedition was too different, because the dogsled carried less weight and the food had been dropped from planes and also the weather was favorable. On the other hand, Peary's expedition was in unfavorable conditions and he carried a huge amount of food. As a result, this argument is irrelevant and Peary's claim is not correct.
Finally, the author posits that measuring the shadows in the photograph that Peray took in the North Pole indicate the right position of the sun on that day. Thus, Peary was honest in claiming that he successfully reached the North Pole. In contrast, the lecturer, cast doubt on this claim by pointing out that the technique used to measure the shadows was not precise. In addition, she states that this photo was taken 100 years ago with a primitive camera and for sure it is a fuzzy photo and all the shadows are blurred and faded that can not be used to provide accurate measure. So, we can not trust this results and Peary's was not truthful.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 149, Rule ID: COMMA_MONTH_DATE[1]
Message: The comma is probably incorrect: 'April 1909'.
Suggestion: April 1909
... that he reached the North Pole on 07th April, 1909. The author believes that Peays claim i...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...none of the se reasons are convincing. To begin with, the author suggests that ...
^^^^^
Line 2, column 45, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... To begin with, the author suggests that the National Geographic Society formed c...
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Line 2, column 165, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...accurate. This declaration was announced that based on the intensive investigati...
^^^
Line 3, column 5, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e. This declaration was announced that based on the intensive investigation tha...
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Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...onclusion is biased and untrustworthy. Secondly, the writer argues that the suc...
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Line 4, column 77, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... the success of the recent expedition of Tom Avery supports that Peary reached t...
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Line 4, column 88, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s of the recent expedition of Tom Avery supports that Peary reached the North Po...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...vant and Pearys claim is not correct. Finally, the author posits that measurin...
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Line 5, column 203, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... Thus, Peary was honest in claiming that he successfully reached the North Pole. ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, as to, in addition, in contrast, as a result, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 10.4613686534 220% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 22.412803532 165% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1933.0 1373.03311258 141% => OK
No of words: 383.0 270.72406181 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04699738903 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.658912253 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 145.348785872 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514360313316 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 581.4 419.366225166 139% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.0838805901 49.2860985944 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.736842105 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1578947368 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.89473684211 7.06452816374 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 4.19205298013 239% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.296055119283 0.272083759551 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0963413552512 0.0996497079465 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0992480019049 0.0662205650399 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154309608378 0.162205337803 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0727395917138 0.0443174109184 164% => 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: 12.01 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 63.6247240618 165% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => 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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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 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 149, Rule ID: COMMA_MONTH_DATE[1]
Message: The comma is probably incorrect: 'April 1909'.
Suggestion: April 1909
... that he reached the North Pole on 07th April, 1909. The author believes that Peays claim i...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...none of the se reasons are convincing. To begin with, the author suggests that ...
^^^^^
Line 2, column 45, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... To begin with, the author suggests that the National Geographic Society formed c...
^^
Line 2, column 165, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...accurate. This declaration was announced that based on the intensive investigati...
^^^
Line 3, column 5, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e. This declaration was announced that based on the intensive investigation tha...
^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...onclusion is biased and untrustworthy. Secondly, the writer argues that the suc...
^^^^
Line 4, column 77, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... the success of the recent expedition of Tom Avery supports that Peary reached t...
^^
Line 4, column 88, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s of the recent expedition of Tom Avery supports that Peary reached the North Po...
^^
Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...vant and Pearys claim is not correct. Finally, the author posits that measurin...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 203, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... Thus, Peary was honest in claiming that he successfully reached the North Pole. ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, as to, in addition, in contrast, as a result, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 10.4613686534 220% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 22.412803532 165% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1933.0 1373.03311258 141% => OK
No of words: 383.0 270.72406181 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04699738903 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.658912253 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 145.348785872 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514360313316 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 581.4 419.366225166 139% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.0838805901 49.2860985944 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.736842105 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1578947368 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.89473684211 7.06452816374 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 4.19205298013 239% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.296055119283 0.272083759551 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0963413552512 0.0996497079465 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0992480019049 0.0662205650399 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154309608378 0.162205337803 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0727395917138 0.0443174109184 164% => 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: 12.01 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 63.6247240618 165% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => 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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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 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.