TOEFL Writing Practice Task
Directions: Give yourself 3 minutes to read the passage.
The reading and the lecture are both about the origin of the comic medium. The reading states that its origin is from America while the lecturer contradicts this claim. He thinks the comic medium origins are from before the americans one, and its expression can be found in all around the world in theirs own unique ways.
Fist of all, the reading marks Hogan's Alley as the first comic strip that appeared in America in the 1890s, but the lecturer points out that there were many popular comic strips in Europe before that time. Most of the charcaters, portraired in those strips, were actually immigrants who travelled to America. Coincidently, the main character of Hogan's Alley, the Yellow Kid, a low income boy from New York, could have been perfectly inspired by those first immigrant from the ending of the ninteen century.
Second, the reading claims that even the first popular comic book in the world was created in America, the Action Comics, which main and more popular character was and still is Super man. The lecturer, instead, contradicts this claim by stating that before Superman a very popular character was created in Belgium with similar characteristics. Also, the lecturer points out that the artist that created Superman was actually Canadian.
The other reason why the lecturer states that the reading claiming is not accurate, is the one about the origin of the europe comics influenced by Disney comic books. The lecturer claims that european charactes like Smurfs and Asterix have their own european touch and distintic characteristics. Even those comic characters created for Disney in Europe are drawing by european artists who applied their own style. Same as those created by the populars japanesse comic medium.
In conclusion, comic medium is an art that find its expression in every part of the world with their own style and unique local influence.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, second, so, still, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1583.0 1373.03311258 115% => OK
No of words: 312.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07371794872 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43297522087 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.50641025641 0.540411800872 94% => OK
syllable_count: 483.3 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.3286082593 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.071428571 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2857142857 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.78571428571 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More 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: 0.0191069239768 0.272083759551 7% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00895001198329 0.0996497079465 9% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0127622851096 0.0662205650399 19% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0113844012882 0.162205337803 7% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00816786045037 0.0443174109184 18% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => 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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