Coins in Maine
Speaking of a historical European silver coin discovered in the state of Maine, some, including the professor in the lecture, suggest that it was brought by European explorers known as the Norse, while, others, like the author in the reading passage, claim that it might be fake historical evidence. Both have proposed several reasonable explanations which I am going to explore in the following paragraphs.
To begin with, the lecturer acutely identifies a weakness in the article that Maine stood far from eastern Canada where the Norse inhabited, indicating that the coins had nothing to do with the Norse settlement. The lecturer mentions that the Native Americans in Maine were fond of acquiring objects over long distances within North America, meaning that they probably had contact with the Norse and brought back the coins.
Second, even though the author alleges that there weren’t other coins remaining at the Norse sites, implying that the Norse could have come to America without silver coins, the lecturer argues it is a misconception. This is because the coins were so valuable that they packed all of them when they returned to Europe. Thereby, there was a chance that the Norse both arrived in America and went back to Europe with the coins.
Last but not least, the lecturer concurs with the author that the Native Americans wouldn’t have referred to the coins as money, showing that the coins were useless for them. Nevertheless, she points out that, because of the beauty of the coins, the Native Americans might value the coins as appealing and unusual objects. Furthermore, they might engage in trades with the Norse and make the coins into necklaces or jewelry. Accordingly, we can discover the remaining coins in Maine.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, furthermore, if, nevertheless, second, so, while, speaking of, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1468.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 288.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09722222222 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50831708728 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565972222222 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 450.9 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => 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: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 68.2419129105 49.2860985944 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.454545455 110.228320801 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1818181818 21.698381199 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.54545454545 7.06452816374 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => 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: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.274649089133 0.272083759551 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100980123832 0.0996497079465 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0621711902763 0.0662205650399 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149745816677 0.162205337803 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0727227240141 0.0443174109184 164% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 53.8541721854 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 10.7273730684 186% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, furthermore, if, nevertheless, second, so, while, speaking of, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1468.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 288.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09722222222 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50831708728 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565972222222 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 450.9 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => 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: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 68.2419129105 49.2860985944 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.454545455 110.228320801 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1818181818 21.698381199 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.54545454545 7.06452816374 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => 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: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.274649089133 0.272083759551 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100980123832 0.0996497079465 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0621711902763 0.0662205650399 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149745816677 0.162205337803 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0727227240141 0.0443174109184 164% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 53.8541721854 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 10.7273730684 186% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.