In the lecture, the professor discusses why none of the three theories mentioned in the passage on the Norse coin are convincing.
To begin with, the reading claims that the location where the coin was discovered is distant to known Norse settlements in North America, so it is unlikely to have been belonged to the Norse. However, the speaker refutes this by saying that Native Americans might encountered the Norse during their migrations, and carried those coins with them for long distances to Maine.
Next, whilst the second hypothesis in the passage states that the coin is fake because no other coins have been found at Norse settlements in Canada, which indicates that the Norse did not travel with coins, the lecturer points out that since the Norse did not establish permanent settlements in North America, they must have taken all the treasured belongings like coins away with them when they sailed back to Europe.
Finally, although Native Americans did not use coins as money at that time, as the instructor asserts, attracted by these unusual and delicate objects, they might still wanted to own them by exchanging much needed things with the Norse, rejecting the argument in the reading material that native North Americans were not interested in silver coins.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, second, so, still, 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: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1074.0 1373.03311258 78% => OK
No of words: 211.0 270.72406181 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09004739336 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.81127787577 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43276194384 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.601895734597 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 325.8 419.366225166 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 5.0 13.0662251656 38% => 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: 42.0 21.2450331126 198% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 110.438399119 49.2860985944 224% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 214.8 110.228320801 195% => OK
Words per sentence: 42.2 21.698381199 194% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0 7.06452816374 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.516838871766 0.272083759551 190% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.262764952135 0.0996497079465 264% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.089764213607 0.0662205650399 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.28692089771 0.162205337803 177% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102413284331 0.0443174109184 231% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 23.6 13.3589403974 177% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.31 53.8541721854 69% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 18.5 11.0289183223 168% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.13 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.39 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 63.6247240618 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 18.8 10.498013245 179% => OK
text_standard: 19.0 11.2008830022 170% => 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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