The reading and the lecture are both about a painting of a woman in white a cap. The author of the reading believes that this painting is not a work by Rembrandt, which was the most famous painter of the seventeenth century. The lecture casts doubt on the claims made in the article. He states that it was concluded that this painting is actually done by Rembrandt.
First of all, the author points out the women in the painting is wearing a linen cap and a luxurious fur collar, two clothing items that inconsistent each other and Rembrandt would not make this mistake. This point is challenged by the lecturer. He says that evidence shows that the fur was painted over to the painting long time after, mainly to make the painting look more expensive.
Secondly, the author contends that the shadows and the light were used incorrectly and that is misleading as Rembrandt was a master of these two aspects. The lecturer rebuts this argument. He states that in the original painting the light and the shadows were natural and correct. The added fur made them look improper.
Finally, the author states that the Rembrandt never used a panel with several wood pieces as this painting has. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that the wood pieces were added later to make the painting look valuable. He also notes that the used wood is from the same tree that was used to make a panel for his self-portrait.
In conclusion, the lecturer effectively casts doubt on all the claims presented in the reading.
- TPO-14 - Integrated Writing Task Every year, forest fires and severe stormscause a great deal of damage to forests in the northwestern United States. One way of dealing with the aftermath of these disasters is called salvage logging, which is the practice 75
- TPO 45: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? In the past, young people depended too much on their parents to make decisions for them; today young people are better able to make decisions about their own lives. Use specific reasons and ex 60
- TPO-47 - Integrated Writing Task Pterosaurs were an ancient group of winged reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs. Many pterosaurs were very large, some as large as a giraffe and with a wingspan of over 12 meters. Paleontologists have long wondered 78
- TPO-03 - Integrated Writing Task Rembrandt is the most famous of the seventeenth-century Dutch painters. However, there are doubts whether some paintings attributed to Rembrandt were actually painted by him. One such painting is known as attributed to Rem 73
- TOEFL T P O 43 Integrated Writing Task 78
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 226, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ous painter of the seventeenth century. The lecture casts doubt on the claims made ...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, look, second, secondly, 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 : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1253.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 265.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72830188679 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45008845315 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.479245283019 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 372.6 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.7731605007 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.5333333333 110.228320801 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6666666667 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.4 7.06452816374 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.435392100039 0.272083759551 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.144906830521 0.0996497079465 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101503657105 0.0662205650399 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.231524736895 0.162205337803 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.118754579256 0.0443174109184 268% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.3589403974 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 53.8541721854 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.86 12.2367328918 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.