Burning mirror
The article and the lecture are both about the authenticity of burning mirror, a weapon is said to be used by the Greeks to fight against Roman. The author of the reading is of the opinion that this is not real and provides three reason to support it. The lecturer refutes the statements made by the author. She believes that evidence for belief that burning mirror is impossible and technologically impractical is unconvincing.
First, the author suggests that Greek at the time were not capable of constructing such a huge sheet of copper in the shape of the parabola to build the weapon. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. She says that there was no need to produce a single big piece. She puts forth idea that the device may be comprised of dozens of flat copper sheets gathered in the form of parabolic curve.
Second, the writer contends that it would take ten minutes to burn an object made of log in the condition that the object must stand still during the process, as displayed by an experiment. This is, is according to the writer, impractical during the battle time. The lecturer, however, rebuts this point by asserting that the experiment is based on the assumption that flame was to burn the wood directly. However, Romans' boats are not only made of wood but also others, for example, a materials to be painted on the log to make them waterproof. This one can, nevertheless, catch the fire in only seconds, and subsequently spread to woods even if the ship were moving. Therefore, the burning mirror was, in fact, a powerful instrument.
Finally, it is stated in the passage that the Greeks would not bother to construct burning mirror because they already owned flaming arrows - another weapon of the same usage and effectiveness. The lecture, on the other hand, posits that as flaming arrows were already prevalent, the Romans would be alert and prepare for their attack. Meanwhile, they can only see the mirror from faraway and the fire started suddenly without being observed. This method created more surprise, therefore, made the tool more effective.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 253, 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.
...nd provides three reason to support it. The lecturer refutes the statements made by...
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Line 5, column 486, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a material' or simply 'materials'?
Suggestion: a material; materials
...e of wood but also others, for example, a materials to be painted on the log to make them w...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, still, then, therefore, while, as to, for example, in fact, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 10.4613686534 220% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1734.0 1373.03311258 126% => OK
No of words: 356.0 270.72406181 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87078651685 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60030290896 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 145.348785872 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.564606741573 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 536.4 419.366225166 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.4859491995 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.3333333333 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7777777778 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.22222222222 7.06452816374 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.268487470887 0.272083759551 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0852270418669 0.0996497079465 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.128268469593 0.0662205650399 194% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.165773459017 0.162205337803 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107293882385 0.0443174109184 242% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 63.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.0 Out of 30
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