The author of the reading believes that the claim of Robert E. Peary who stated that he reached the North Pole is believable and provides three reasons of support. However, the lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. She thinks that the proofs about his trip are not solid.
First of all, the reading mentions that the experts of the National Geographic Society approved his trip. They checked his records and instruments. However, the lecture counters this point by explaining that the committee of this experts were friends of Robert E. Peary. Furthermore, the examination of his tools was in couple days only. According to the professor, they might take sums of money, thus, their checking was not trustworthy.
Secondly, the article asserts that the speed of his journey could justify because another traveler did the same trip in the same short time. However, the professor refutes this point by saying that the conditions of this traveler were different. The weather was favorable and he had less weight since the supplies were thrown from a plan. On the other hand, Robert E.Peary did not have the suitable circumstances.
Thirdly, the writer says that the shadow in the pictures of Robert E. Peary approved his trip because of the sun position match the shadow calculation in these pictures. However, the lecturer posits this argument. She says the shadow in the photographs is not reliable. The pictures are old and they looked blurred. As a result, this evidence cannot be accurate.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 225, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...int by explaining that the committee of this experts were friends of Robert E. Peary...
^^^^
Line 3, column 367, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Peary
...rom a plan. On the other hand, Robert E.Peary did not have the suitable circumstances...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, 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 : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1264.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 252.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01587301587 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98428260373 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50701962344 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563492063492 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 374.4 419.366225166 89% => 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: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.6631899383 49.2860985944 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 66.5263157895 110.228320801 60% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.2631578947 21.698381199 61% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.68421052632 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => 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: 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: 0.290520341646 0.272083759551 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0742124419527 0.0996497079465 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0865300519838 0.0662205650399 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166344996099 0.162205337803 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0808555327235 0.0443174109184 182% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.8 13.3589403974 66% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.74 53.8541721854 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 11.0289183223 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.95 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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