Both the author of the reading and the lecturer discuss if Robert E. Peary, a well-known adventurer and explorer, reached the North Pole. Whereas the author believes that Peary succeeded on that trip and provides three arguments of support, the professor, however, finds those arguments unconvincing and rejects each of them.
One argument claimed in the passage is that Peary's records found persuasive and convincing by a committee gathered by the National Geographic Society. The lecturer, however, has some doubts about the objectivity of the committee. He states that investigation was conducted by some close friends of Peary and it lasted 2 days, which were a relatively short time. Thus, the investigation was biased.
According to the article, another explorer Tom Avery made a similar trip with the same conditions with that of Peary's trip and, he reached the North Pole less than 37 days. the speaker, on the other hand, draws attention to the point that Avery's trip was not the same because he did not carry as much weight as Peary on the dogsleds. His food was carried by airplane and most importantly, weather conditions were better than the time Peary made the trip.
It is also contended in the passage that the position of the Sun and its shade on photos taken by Peary was suitable according to some calculations. However, the professor cast doubt on this point by claiming that many years past and photos have become old. Now, they look fuzzy and shaded so, we cannot measure the position of the Sun exactly.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 174, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
...ached the North Pole less than 37 days. the speaker, on the other hand, draws atten...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, look, so, thus, well, whereas, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1278.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 258.0 270.72406181 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95348837209 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58481511031 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.596899224806 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 390.6 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => 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: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.816126641 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.3076923077 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8461538462 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.15384615385 7.06452816374 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.397753082327 0.272083759551 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117582618714 0.0996497079465 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0781262822122 0.0662205650399 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206119532517 0.162205337803 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0486850132023 0.0443174109184 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => 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: 11.43 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
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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