The article introduces the topic of the legendary travels of Marco Polo which is the history around Marco Polo’s experience of China.The writer says there are lots of lies in this history. The lecturer disagrees. He says that there are some inconsistent parts, because this history was written after twenty years, but that is almost the fact.
First, the author mentions the relationship with Kublai Khan and the position of the governor in China. It states that there is no record in China of the Marco Polo story. The professor believes there are flaws in the author’s position. He contends that it might be a mistranslation about his position as ambassador which was not a very important position at that time. Therefore, it is unworthy to put on the history.
According to the writer, Marco Polo lied about having been to North China, because he did not mention The China Great Wall. The speaker, on the other hand, points out that the Wall was broken by the war between Mongols, and after it might be rebuilt. Thus, Marco Polo did not see that.
Also, the reading passage notes even Marco Polo did not go to China by mentioning Frances Wood’s book. According to the local merchants there were no Italian posts in Mongolian and China at that time. The professor rebuts this argument. He says the book also did not have accurate evidence on it, and some archeologist claimed in 2012, there is some evidence that Marco Polo went to a few churches that were located in China.
As you can see, the author and the lecturer hold very different views on the story of Marco Polo traveling China.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, so, therefore, thus, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1325.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 279.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74910394265 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40449171366 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52688172043 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 414.0 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.1994902794 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.8125 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4375 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.75 7.06452816374 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.392416671011 0.272083759551 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143168243272 0.0996497079465 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.174209792106 0.0662205650399 263% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.253340992482 0.162205337803 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0607349264324 0.0443174109184 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.3589403974 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.97 12.2367328918 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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