Both the reading passage and lecture discuss about a European silver coin which might be a piece of historical evidence. The author presents some evidence supporting the archaeologists who believe that the coin is a historical fake. On the other hand, the lecturer believes that the coin might be genuine and presents some counter-arguments to challenge the reasons presented in passage.
First of all, the author posits that, the coin was discovered far away from sites which are documented as Norse settlements. Thus, according to the article, the long distance proves that the coin is fake. However, the lecturer points out to the fact that, many Native Americans travel far away and it is possible that they meet Norse settlers and bring coin with many other objects to their place.
Secondly, the author argues that, no other coins have been found at places that were inhabited by the Norse which questions the originality of the coin. By contrast, the speaker asserts that Norse were not permanent settlers and when they moved back to Europe, they packed up all objects with them. Therefore, it might happen that they took away all the coins and it explains the absence of other coins in Norse settlements.
Finally, according to the passage, European coins are useless in North America. So, it is unlikely that Norse explorers brought coins to America. On the contrary, the lecture brings up the idea that though coins might not have monetary value to Native Americans at that time, but those coins could be used to make necklace or other jewellery items. Hence, as an appealing object, Norse might have brought coins to North America.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, however, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1379.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 275.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01454545455 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4977345107 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.523636363636 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 424.8 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.6558171279 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.076923077 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1538461538 21.698381199 97% => 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 : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.282463735834 0.272083759551 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118896046522 0.0996497079465 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0579306354934 0.0662205650399 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174711838553 0.162205337803 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0643572636943 0.0443174109184 145% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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