The lecture and the reading are both about the purpose of the carved stone balls, which is a curios type of artifact that were very common during the Neolithic period in Scotland. . The author of the reading believes that there are three explanations for their purpose, whereas the lecturer casts a doubt on the theories made in the reading.
First of all, the author proposes that the holes and the many superficial grooves in the carved stone balls is the result of cords used to string them through. the lecturer points out that if these stones were weapon, they should have signs of war such as broken or damaged parts,like those found in other weapons from the same period (axes and arrows).
Second, the author suggests that because of the uniformity of their size these stones could have been used as a part of a primitive system of weight and measures. the lecturer rebuts this theory and she explains that this is not possible due to the fact that they are made of different type of stones and this led in a difference in the density and then in their weight.
Finally, the idea of the author about the social purpose of the stone balls is challeged by the lecturer, she gives two reasons, first the marks are to simple to have a social purpose and second she notes that the high ranked people used to be buried with their possesions, and no stone balls were found in tombs, neither nearby.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, second, so, then, whereas, such as, first of all
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 : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1153.0 1373.03311258 84% => OK
No of words: 251.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.59362549801 5.08290768461 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98032404683 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.18824290916 2.5805825403 85% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.537848605578 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 352.8 419.366225166 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => 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: 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: 35.0 21.2450331126 165% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 56.0724749675 49.2860985944 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 164.714285714 110.228320801 149% => OK
Words per sentence: 35.8571428571 21.698381199 165% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4285714286 7.06452816374 148% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 4.33554083885 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.468043387479 0.272083759551 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.199069922535 0.0996497079465 200% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0833748066188 0.0662205650399 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.261714661909 0.162205337803 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0621077790474 0.0443174109184 140% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.1 13.3589403974 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.87 53.8541721854 98% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.0289183223 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.93 12.2367328918 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 63.6247240618 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.0 10.498013245 152% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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