The reading provides three pieces of evidence for approving that Robert E. Peary reached the North pole. However, the professor in the listening casts doubt on all the author's theories and raises several counter-arguments that as listed below.
First, the passage states that there is a committee, which is called the National Geographic Society, had examined Peary's expedition and concluded that he reach the pole. Conversely, the professor refutes the committee investigation and says that they were not objective. The period of investigation was not enough, which were two days only, and Peary's trip was funded by part of the committee. Thus, this is a skeptical evidence and cannot be accounted.
Secondly, the reading mentions that there is a recent expedition (Avery) reached the North Pole in less time-period comparing to Peary's expedition, which is a compelling evidence that Peary reached the North Pole. Yet, the lecturer argues that Avery's trip was different from Peary's one. First, the weather condition was not similar. Secondly, food supply method was different as well. Avery’s food supply by airplane; thus, he weighted less by reducing the amount of food; therefore, in sliding way, Avery could move faster. So, it is not reasonable to compare Avery's trip with Peary's expedition.
Finally, the passage states that there were photographs taken by Peary in the pole. The positions were the photos taken and measuring the shadow provides a strong evidence that Peary reached the North Pole. However, the professor refutes this point by explaining that it proves nothing. This is because the quality of these photos was poor and taken by very old camera, which the photos appeared uncleared; thus, there was not a precise measuring of shadows to be supported as an evidence.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1519.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 288.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27430555556 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69521171421 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510416666667 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 468.9 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 52.494850629 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.3529411765 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9411764706 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94117647059 7.06452816374 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.441553822096 0.272083759551 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.152220600409 0.0996497079465 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.155012231102 0.0662205650399 234% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.264032915689 0.162205337803 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0351447557239 0.0443174109184 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.99 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 63.6247240618 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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