In the lecture, the professor discusses why the evidence and investigation mentioned in the passage on whether Peary had reached the North Pole is flawed and untrustworthy.
To begin with, the passage claims that a committee from the National Geographic Society has confirmed Peary's achievement through an investigation. However, the speaker refutes this by saying that this committee, which consisted of some friends of Peary, carried out the research in merely two days, so its conclusion could be biased.
Secondly, whilst Avery's expedition to the North Pole in less than 37 days proved that some skeptics' argument that Peary travelled too fast is unreasonable, the lecturer points out that Avery did not carry food on his slide, and he travelled when weather was suitable, which were considerable advantages over Peary, making it difficult for Avery to support Peary.
Finally, the reading material states that by measuring the shadows in photos taken by Peary and calculating the position of the sun, experts can prove his arrival to the North Pole. Nonetheless, the old camera used by Peary the time-torn photos themselves, as asserted by the professor, makes it almost impossible to measure the position of the shadows sufficiently precisely to figure out where the photos were exactly taken.
In conclusion, based on the reasons and analysis given by the professor, it is unlikely that the three arguments in the passage can prove he has been to the North Pole in 1909.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 92, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'skeptics'' or 'skeptic's'?
Suggestion: skeptics'; skeptic's
...e in less than 37 days proved that some skeptics argument that Peary travelled too fast ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1250.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 240.0 270.72406181 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20833333333 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93597934253 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79671185899 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.616666666667 0.540411800872 114% => OK
syllable_count: 387.9 419.366225166 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 13.0662251656 54% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 34.0 21.2450331126 160% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 68.0039014487 49.2860985944 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 178.571428571 110.228320801 162% => OK
Words per sentence: 34.2857142857 21.698381199 158% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.1428571429 7.06452816374 172% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.394980506181 0.272083759551 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.168491570377 0.0996497079465 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0665104227938 0.0662205650399 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195242457469 0.162205337803 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0421530156704 0.0443174109184 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.3 13.3589403974 152% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.97 53.8541721854 69% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.6 11.0289183223 151% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.53 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.26 8.42419426049 122% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.6 10.498013245 149% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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