Both the reading passage and lecture discuss about authenticity of the claim of Robert E. Peary that he had reached North Pole in his expedition. The author provides three arguments supporting the truthfulness of the claim. However, the professor casts doubt on these arguments and refutes them all providing several counter counter arguments.
First of all, according to the passage, National Geographic Society conducted an investigation and reported supporting Peary's claim. By contrast, the professor contends that that investigation was conducted by Peary's friends and reported within a very short time without careful consideration of all evidences. Thus, the professor asserts that the declaration is biased and fails to prove Peary's claim.
Secondly. the author depicts that another recent expedition which completed similar expedition in less than 37 days challenges skeptics, who argue that it is impossible that Peary made that tour in 37 days. Nevertheless, the lecturer points to the fact that recent explorer did not bring enough food with him which made his dogsleds lighter. Also, weather was much favorable during recent expedition. Thus, the lecturer refutes this evidence mentioning that these two case are not similar.
Finally, the author brings up the idea of calculating Sun's position from photographs taken by Peary, which proves that Sun's position confirmed that it was taken at North Pole. On the other hand, the professor finds this claim dubious mentioning that photography technique was not advanced at that time and most of those photos are blurred and faded over time. Also, those photos are so fuzzy and unfocused that can not establish Sun's position with that much accuracy.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, then, thus, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1450.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 267.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43071161049 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68946196922 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.595505617978 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 434.7 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.7266166405 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.571428571 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0714285714 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.85714285714 7.06452816374 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.197167000727 0.272083759551 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.067900621374 0.0996497079465 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0795523671659 0.0662205650399 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106237636724 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0336206708042 0.0443174109184 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.2367328918 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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