Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
Criticisms the book “The Travels of Marco Pollo” received.
The author introduces the groundbreaking book called “The Travels of Marco Pollo”. Specifically, the writer discusses the criticisms the book received. The Speaker in the listening passage disagrees. He believes that Pollo did not lie in his book and attacks each of the claims made in the reading.
First, the writer begins by stating that according to the book, Pollo was appointed governor of the city of Yangzhou for three years. And that it is unlikely for this position to be awarded to a foreigner, and Polo’s name was absent from all Government records. The speaker, on the other hand, refutes this point by saying that Polo’s position in government was mistranslated and that he was only an ambassador which is not a high-level position. Therefore, his name not mentioned in the government records was simply because the position he held was a low one.
Secondly, the writer also claims that critics have also suggested that Marco Pollo lied about visiting Northern China since in the book he never mentioned the great wall of China. Again, the professor believes that there are flaws in the writer’s logic. He holds that Marco Polo traveled to China after the Mangos had invaded the city. So, the wall was in a state of repair. Therefore, even if Pollo had seen the wall, it probably did not look worthy to be taken note of.
Finally, the writer brings his argument to a close by making reference to Frances Wood who says that Polo never visited China and this claim is supported by the fact that there was no Italian trading post in Mongolia or China at that time. Not surprisingly, the lecturer takes issue with this claim by contending that there is no evidence to support the claim, and some details verified that Polo mentioned churches found in China by archeologists which no other person has mentioned.
In summary, Both the writer and the speaker hold conflicting views about Marco Polo and his book “The Travels of Marco Polo”. It is clear that they will have a problem finding a common ground on this issue.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, if, look, second, secondly, so, therefore, in summary, 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 : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1698.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 351.0 270.72406181 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83760683761 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32839392791 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53534042523 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527065527066 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 514.8 419.366225166 123% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.3300544692 49.2860985944 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.8823529412 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6470588235 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52941176471 7.06452816374 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.152452592582 0.272083759551 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0542389012535 0.0996497079465 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0470812713085 0.0662205650399 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0967959361876 0.162205337803 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0720846368016 0.0443174109184 163% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 63.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.0 Out of 30
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