Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet

Both the author of the reading and the professor are discussing the Rembrandt painting, Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet. The reading states that the painting is actually not Rembrandt’s work. However, the professor casts doubt upon the claim made in the reading and refutes each of its points.

The reading points to the inconsistency between a servant’s bonnet and the costly fur collar, and Rembrandt was known for attention to detail. The professor contradicts this by saying that X-rays and analysis of paint pigments proved that the fur collar was added later, likely to increase the painting’s value.

Next, the reading explains that Rembrandt was an expert of painting light and shadow, but in this painting , the dark collar should have made the woman’s face darker. However, the professor states the reflection of light and shadow style are realistic without the over-painted collar.

Finally, the reading states that the panel backing the painting was made of several pieces of wood, unlike any other work by Rembrandt. The professor, on the other hand, posits that the original painting was made of a single piece of wood, with two panels added later to make it more valuable. Furthermore, the wood from the original panel was from the same tree as that of another Rembrandt painting.

For all these reasons, the painting is now accepted as a work by Rembrandt.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 141, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ng named Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet. According to the author,...
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Line 3, column 38, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: that
... First of all, the reading points out that that the dressing of a woman in the painting...
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Line 5, column 116, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , t
... and shadow, but in this painting we don,t found it because the appearance of face...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, may, second, so, in conclusion, first of all, 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: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 30.3222958057 168% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1633.0 1373.03311258 119% => OK
No of words: 347.0 270.72406181 128% => OK
Chars per words: 4.7060518732 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48524284413 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455331412104 0.540411800872 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 477.9 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 55.2998769338 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.083333333 110.228320801 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.9166666667 21.698381199 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.66666666667 7.06452816374 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.177796267426 0.272083759551 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0909863513762 0.0996497079465 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.169535058606 0.0662205650399 256% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16607569783 0.162205337803 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.170562742345 0.0443174109184 385% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.98 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.8 11.0289183223 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.63 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.8 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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