Marco Polo
The article discusses about the claims Marco Polo made in his book, The Travels of Marco Polo stating that they were false by providng three reasons for the support. However the lecturer says that the travel book that Polo wrote is a memoir which is bound to have some inconsistencies. The lecturer says that there is increasing evidence to support their case and refutes all the points the author makes.
Firstly the article claims that Marco Polo lied about his close relationship with Kublai Khan who was a grandson to Ghengis Khan and also about his missing name from the goverment records. The lecturer argues by saying that there was a mistranslation of texts which resulted in such an interpretation and the reason his name is missing from all the government records is because he was just an ambassador which was not note worthy.
Secondly the article posits that Marco Polo lied about his visits to Northern China because he never actually mentioned anything about the Great Wall of China. On the other hand the lecturer thinks that during his time of visit to China the Great Wall was in state of disrepair and hence did not catch his attention. As a result was not a part of the travel book.
Lastly the article says that Marco Polo heard different stores about Asia from fellow merchants while travelling and also from texts found in librariers in the cities. The lecturer opposes this by mentioning that he talks about certain churches in China which have not been covered in any text and also there is no evidence of him visiting a library.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 167, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...providng three reasons for the support. However the lecturer says that the travel book ...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 420, Rule ID: NOTE_WORTHY[1]
Message: Did you mean 'noteworthy'?
Suggestion: noteworthy
...he was just an ambassador which was not note worthy. Secondly the article posits that ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 318, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... and hence did not catch his attention. As a result was not a part of the travel b...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, firstly, hence, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, while, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1295.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 271.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77859778598 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38985660761 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520295202952 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 396.9 419.366225166 95% => 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: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 49.1808905979 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.5 110.228320801 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1 21.698381199 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.9 7.06452816374 168% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.252897111617 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.115576653223 0.0996497079465 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.139007703533 0.0662205650399 210% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176533619482 0.162205337803 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0902709174091 0.0443174109184 204% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 53.8541721854 98% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.74 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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