TPO-33 - Integrated Writing Task Carved stone balls are a curious type of artifact found at a number of locations in Scotland. They date from the late Neolithic period, around 4,000 years ago. They are round in shape; they were carved from several types o

In the set of the materials, the article states that although there is no agreement in a purpose and meaning of the Carved stone ball there are some theories about that. However, the professor, in the lecture, explains that none of this theories are convincing and refutes each of the author's reasons.

First, the reading claims that because Carved stone balls have some holes and grooves on their surface, these stone used in hunting and fighting as a weapon. However, the professor argues that common weapons of Neolithic people have a sign of war such as cracking but most of these engraved balls are very well preserved. Therefore, It is impossible that these ball used for fighting.

Second, the reading passage says that the sizes of the Carved stone balls are nearly the uniform so they were used as a weight to measurement. The professor counters this point by stating that even though these stones have the same size, they don't have a similar mass. In addition, The professor states that the density of the materials is different to each other. Hence, Carved stone ball couldn't use in a measuring system.

Third, the reading makes the argumentation that due to the elaborative design, Carved stone ball may be served as an important social status. The professor refutes this claim by pointing out that a plenty of elaborations on these incise stones are too simple in order to consider status symbol. Furthermore, he says that there haven't found any of these stone on a grave of those people lived on that period.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
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Suggestion: don't
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Suggestion: couldn't
...to each other. Hence, Carved stone ball couldnt use in a measuring system. Third, th...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: haven't
...symbol. Furthermore, he says that there havent found any of these stone on a grave of ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, third, well, in addition, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1273.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 261.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87739463602 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44627539255 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544061302682 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 397.8 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.4761265579 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.083333333 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.75 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.83333333333 7.06452816374 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.469800832997 0.272083759551 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.184709062133 0.0996497079465 185% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.125495812643 0.0662205650399 190% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.286427174378 0.162205337803 177% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0780198097564 0.0443174109184 176% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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