A little over 2 200 years ago the Roman navy attacked the Greek port city of Syracuse According to some ancient historians the Greeks defended themselves with an ingenious weapon called a burning mirror a polished copper surface curved to focus

The reading and listening materials have a conflict of opinion about who built stones at Mystery Hill. The writer puts forward that the stones were made by European, which is contradicted by the following lecture.
Firstly, the writer claims that tne agrrangement of stones at Mystery Hill is similar to that of stones strutures in Eurpe, such as Stonehenge. However, the professor casts doubt on this opinion by saying that the stones at Mystery Hill are located on a farm, which means, to attract tourists, the owner of the farm may move stone to imitate stone structures in Europe.
Secondly, the auther argues that some early types of Eurpean writing were carved into a flat stone at Mystery Hil, while the lecture views this issue from an opposite angle. According to her, these line do not prove to be European writing and look more like marks left by farming tools.
Thirdly, the passage states that the large stones at Mistery Hill were cut from the ground and reshaped by some methods which are widely practiced in Europe in the past. By contrast, in accordance with the professor this claim does not hold water. It is because some jewerls made by Native Americans were found which have marks as those on stones' surface at Mystery Hill.

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Average: 0.3 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, look, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, while, 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 : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1034.0 1373.03311258 75% => OK
No of words: 215.0 270.72406181 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.80930232558 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.82921379641 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.29734485914 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 128.0 145.348785872 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.595348837209 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 326.7 419.366225166 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.7848479006 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.888888889 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8888888889 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.77777777778 7.06452816374 138% => 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 : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.0382027758438 0.272083759551 14% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0207900248187 0.0996497079465 21% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.021991632828 0.0662205650399 33% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.025878807662 0.162205337803 16% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0267858743753 0.0443174109184 60% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 63.6247240618 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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