The reading and the lecture are both about a copper cylinder discovered many years ago in Iraq. While the author of the reading passage argues that the vessels were not used as electric batteries in ancient times, the professor disputes this claim. She states that the reasons argued in the readings are not convincing. The lecturer casts doubt on the main points made in the text by providing three controversial reasons.
In the reading, the writer begins by saying that there were no metal wires attached to these vessels; however, if the vessels were used as batteries, they would have been attached to some electricity conductors, such as metal wires. On the contrary, the professor disagrees with this idea. She asserts that these vessels were found by local people, not trained archaeologists. They could have found other materials near the vessels but overlooked them or thrown them away.
Furthermore, according to the reading passage, these copper cylinders were mainly used to preserve and maintain sacred texts, not for other uses, such as generating electricity. On the other hand, the professor points out that although these vessels are similar to those used to preserve texts and originally were used to maintain texts, later discoveries showed that these vessels were adapted for other purposes, for example, for generating electricity.
Finally, the author believes that since ancient people did not have any device that relied on electricity, they did not need electricity. Not surprisingly, the lecturer refutes this assertion by contending that ancient people would use electricity for other purposes. For instance, some of them used it to show others that they had magical power because the batteries they used could produce weak shocks. Also, doctors might use electricity for the healing process of some patients. They applied electricity to their damaged muscles to stimulate them.
To sum up, both the author and the lecturer hold conflicting views on whether discovered vessels were used to generate electricity in ancient times.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, however, if, look, so, while, for example, for instance, such as, on the contrary, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 13.8261648746 43% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 43.0788530466 77% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 52.1666666667 69% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1742.0 1977.66487455 88% => OK
No of words: 327.0 407.700716846 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32721712538 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63572019009 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 212.727598566 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.522935779817 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 541.8 618.680645161 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.1076546967 48.9658058833 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.875 100.406767564 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4375 20.6045352989 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 5.45110844103 165% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 11.8709677419 17% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.85842293907 233% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0540853480361 0.236089414692 23% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0223552763502 0.076458572812 29% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0396614854484 0.0737576698707 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0351422664057 0.150856017488 23% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0250337012021 0.0645574589148 39% => 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: 13.9 11.7677419355 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 58.1214874552 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 10.9000537634 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.01818996416 112% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 86.8835125448 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
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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