Chevalier
In the lecture, the professor mentions that no memoir can encapsulate the complete truth. Considering this fact, Chevalier's memoir is surprisingly accurate. She then goes on refute the doubts raised by the critics regarding the legitimacy of Chevalier's memoir, as mentioned in the reading passage.
Firstly, it is very much possible that Chevalier was very wealthy while living in Switzerland. He spent a lot of his money on parties and gambling, and to acquire such amounts of money in a short period of time was not possible. He would have had to liquidate his assets to get the cash, which would have taken a few days. In the mean time, if he ever needed money, he would have possibly asked other merchants for loans. This justifies Chevalier borrowing money from the Swiss merchant, hence, quashing doubts regards his wealth.
Secondly, it is a widely known fact that Chevalier had conversations with Voltaire. No doubts have been raised against this, even according to the reading passage. There is a claim that he would write down all his conversations with Voltaire that very night. When he was writing his memoir, he must have referred to these notes and journals, and this has been corroborated by people who lived with him later in his life. This pacifies the concerns of critics claiming that there is no way Chevalier remembered all his conversations with Voltaire and penned them down years later with accuracy.
Finally comes the point of his escape from the prison in Venice. The lecturer asserts that there were many other prisoners with much more powerful friends in Venice, but they were not able to get out of prison. Given that this was true, it does not hold up that Chevalier's influential friends were able to bribe the jailers to free him. There are also documents belonging to the Venetian government referring to ceiling repairs in that prison, which would support Chevalier's account of a daring escape.
Through the above mentioned points, the lecturer questions the doubts raised by the critics, and provides details to support the accuracy of Chevalier's memoir.
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- Chevalier 83
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 197, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...cquire such amounts of money in a short period of time was not possible. He would have had to ...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
...them down years later with accuracy. Finally comes the point of his escape from the ...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, while, no doubt
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 22.412803532 178% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 30.3222958057 165% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1755.0 1373.03311258 128% => OK
No of words: 349.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02865329513 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32221490584 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57484893646 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553008595989 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 524.7 419.366225166 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 8.23620309051 36% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.5219557977 49.2860985944 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.5 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3888888889 21.698381199 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.61111111111 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252531180491 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100525694557 0.0996497079465 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103697459205 0.0662205650399 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164232368288 0.162205337803 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0409901531309 0.0443174109184 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => 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: 11.89 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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