TPO 30 – Integrated

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In these set of materials, the reading claims that the story about Greeks’ use of burning mirrors -in defending themselves against Roman’s ships- is just a myth. And Greeks of Syracuse never built such a device. And the author provides three evidences of support. However, the professor opposes the reading, she says that the arguments in the reading are unconvincing. She refutes each of the author’s reasons.

First, the reading asserts that the ancient Greeks were not technologically advanced enough to make such a device. In order to produce a burning mirror, ancient Greeks had to manu...

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Score: 27 in 30
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 12
No. of Words: 294 250
No. of Characters: 1411 1200
No. of Different Words: 153 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.141 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.799 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.432 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 75 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 33 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 24 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 14.7 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.9 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.4 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.3 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.49 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.101 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4