The reading and the speaker discuss whether a portrait is Jane Austen who was a famous writer from different perspectives. The author of the reading believes that it belongs to Jane Austen and he gives three reasons to support his idea. However, the speaker casts doubt on the claims made in the article. He says that none of those notions are convincing.
First of all, the author of the reading points out that in 1882 her family gave a permission to use the portrait as the edition of her letters. This point is challenged by the speaker. He restates the fact that Austen’s family asserted her painting after she died 70 years, therefore, they might not see her by themselves. As a result, they may not know exactly whether its subject is hers or not.
Secondly, the author of the reading contends that the face of the portrait looks like Austen's face. The speaker rebuts this idea by saying that Austen's family is very large. There are many faces of teenagers in her relative are identical her face. Moreover, experts have shown that there are two of her relatives resemble her.
Finally, the author of the reading states that the style of that painting linked to the style of Ozias Humphrey, who Austen’s family hired and the painting was actually depicted when Austen was a teenager. The lecture on the other hand, opposes this point by saying that the stamp indicated behind the portrait’s canvas has a name of a seller called Williams, who didn’t sell canvas in London during Humphrey’s painting activity, rather than he sold his paintings when Austen was twenty –seven years old.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, however, if, look, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1345.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 276.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8731884058 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57658121189 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557971014493 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 403.2 419.366225166 96% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.4933417032 49.2860985944 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.0714285714 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7142857143 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1428571429 7.06452816374 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.404341948509 0.272083759551 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.137480984408 0.0996497079465 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102226132911 0.0662205650399 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.246703388766 0.162205337803 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0312818439954 0.0443174109184 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => 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: 10.97 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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