The reading and speaker discuss the issue of Robert E. Peary to the North Pole from different perspectives. The author of the reading points out that indeed Peary reaches the North Pole. However, the speaker casts doubt on the claims made in the article. He says that none of those ideas that the author of the reading has mentioned are unconvincing.
First of all, the author of the reading says that the National Geography Society committee proves that through the investigation of Peary's record concludes that he reaches the North Pole. This point is challenged by the speaker. He restates the fact that investigation did not show the records carefully once it took only two days, so the committee could not present a trustful conclusion about it. Moreover, the committee were not completely objective, once it was composed by Peary’s closest friends who financially contributed to his trip.
Secondly, the author of the reading contends that a recent expedition provides support for Peary's claim that he reached the North Pole in 37 days, and Tom Avery also made the same trek to the North Pole in less than 37 days. The speaker rebuts this claim by saying that the trip of Tom Avery is different from Peary. According to the professor, Avery carried less weight than Peary, once he was not carrying food on the sled, which was dropped by airplane, not forgetting to mention that Avery faced highly favorable weather conditions if compared to Peary’s. Hence, Avery’s expedition was too different from Peary’s to provide support to Peary’s claims.
Finally, the author of the reading states that the photographs, which are taken by Peary with the Sun's position in the sky shows that he took those pictures in the North Pole. The speaker, on the other hand, opposes this point by saying that Peary used the camera that could not focus in subjects. Therefore, those his pictures were not precise. Moreover, those picture were taken about 100 years ago. They are probably faded and blurred. As a result, they are not accurate.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, as to, 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 : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1714.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 343.0 270.72406181 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9970845481 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60228865877 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501457725948 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 512.1 419.366225166 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 64.7791902566 49.2860985944 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.2105263158 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0526315789 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.42105263158 7.06452816374 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.4415260835 0.272083759551 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.131992366452 0.0996497079465 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.132994086498 0.0662205650399 201% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.276797292355 0.162205337803 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0758631341571 0.0443174109184 171% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.42 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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