The reading and the lecture are both about the discovery of a European silver coin dating to the eleventh century in a Native American archaeological site in Maine. The author of the reading holds the opinion that the coin is not a genuine piece of historical evidence. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. He feels that the silver coin is of genuine historical evidence.
To begin with, the author argues that the Native American site in Maine where the coin was discovered is located far from other sites documenting a Norse presence in North America. The article mentions that the remains of Norse settlements have been discovered in far eastern Canada. The distance between the Maine site and the Norse settlements in Canada is more than a thousand kilometers, suggesting the coin has no real connection with the settlements.This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that the Native Americans who lived at the Maine site traveled great distances within North America. Additionally, he says that they were interested in obtaining objects from faraway places, which makes it very possible that they have brought the silver coin.
Secondly, the writer claims that there were no other coins found at the Canadian sites that were inhabited by the Norse. In the article, it is said that this suggests that the Norse did not bring any silver coins with them to their North American settlements. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by mentioning that the Norse didn't create permanent settlements in North America. They went back to Europe. He elaborates on this by bringing up the point that when they packed for their return voyage, they packed up all their valuable possessions which would have included the silver coins. Hence, it's completely possible that the Norse had originally brought the coins with them to North America, but when they returned to Europe, they took the coins back with them.
Finally, the author posits that the Norse who traveled to North America would have known that there is a big possibility of silver coins being useless to them with the knowledge that Native North Americans did not recognize silver coins as money. In contrast, the lecturer’s stance is that Native North Americans would have been attracted to shiny, new, unfamiliar objects. They would also be interested in obtaining objects from faraway places,making it very possible that they have brought the silver coin.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 271, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...a genuine piece of historical evidence. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Line 4, column 457, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: This
...no real connection with the settlements.This specific argument is challenged by the ...
^^^^
Line 6, column 325, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...ebuts this by mentioning that the Norse didnt create permanent settlements in North A...
^^^^^
Line 8, column 445, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , making
...in obtaining objects from faraway places,making it very possible that they have brought...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 26.0 12.0772626932 215% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 47.0 22.412803532 210% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2058.0 1373.03311258 150% => OK
No of words: 403.0 270.72406181 149% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10669975186 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48049772903 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58416204339 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 145.348785872 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.461538461538 0.540411800872 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 637.2 419.366225166 152% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 3.25607064018 338% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.1878106509 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.333333333 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3888888889 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.88888888889 7.06452816374 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
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: 0.319454235152 0.272083759551 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108293613266 0.0996497079465 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0855477772712 0.0662205650399 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206939378466 0.162205337803 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0369810506891 0.0443174109184 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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