Both the reading passage and the lecture discuss whether the memoir of Chevalier de Seignalt is accurate or not. The former one presents three reasons that suggests that the memoir contains misinformation. However, the lecturer disagrees with the text and contradicts each of the points.
First of all, the author claims that while staying in Switzerland, Chevalier borrowed money from a merchant and points out that if he was wealthy, he would not have borrowed it. In contrast, the recording states that borrowing money does not mean that someone is poor. She further adds that he had wealth but could not transform his wealth into money immediately when he needed it. So he borrowed when he ran out of money and paid it back after selling his property.
Second of all, the reading asserts that the conversation with Voltaire which was in the memoir, written years after the conversation happened, could not possibly be written accurately. In contrast, the professor counters that Chevalier used to write notes each night after a conversation with Voltaire. When he wrote the biography, he might have used his notes to add the actual conversation. That's how it is probably accurate.
Finally, the text argues that his escape from the prison might have had the influence of powerful friends who might have bribed the jailers to free him. On other hand, the professor rebuts that other prisoners of that jail had more powerful friends but they did not escape. She also added that after his escape there was a ceiling repairment in the prison that suggest that the prison escape story is true.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 394, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: That's
...s notes to add the actual conversation. Thats how it is probably accurate. Finally...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, so, while, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1334.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 268.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9776119403 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52804496817 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544776119403 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 389.7 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
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: 38.4850885515 49.2860985944 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.2857142857 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1428571429 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.183086175841 0.272083759551 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0588964799289 0.0996497079465 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0462893960323 0.0662205650399 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102178649893 0.162205337803 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0232861016225 0.0443174109184 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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