The reading and the lecture both discuss carved stone balls. The author of the reading believes that there are some possibilities about purpose and meaning of those stone balls. On the other hand, the professor opposes reasons in the reading by providing detailed information.
First, the author claims that these stone balls used to use as an weapons in hunting or fighting. The author thinks that there are some evidences such as some holes on some of the stone balls that can prove it. The professor challenged this point. He explains that that is normal to see some cracks on some of those balls and it is not a sign to prove the theory.
Second, the author mentions that these stone balls have used as a primitive system of measures before. As a matter of fact, people needed to use something to measure thing by and this theory explains that these stones are those scales. The lecturer rebuts this argument by states that some of these balls are heavier than others and it depends on the materials that they made of. The professor points out that these balls are made of different kinds of stones.
Third, the reading says that a carved stone ball served a social goal. This theory is base on some specific designs on stone balls. In the contrast, the lecturer refutes this point.
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Essay evaluation report
This theory is base on some specific designs
This theory is based on some specific designs
flaws:
Need more content. for example:
'In the contrast, the lecturer refutes this point. ' so what are the lecture's ideas?
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 19 in 30
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 12
No. of Words: 227 250
No. of Characters: 1037 1200
No. of Different Words: 111 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.882 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.568 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.152 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 69 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 41 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 24 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 12 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.214 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.293 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.357 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.375 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.573 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.083 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 64, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...s that these stone balls used to use as an weapons in hunting or fighting. The aut...
^^
Line 3, column 64, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'an weapon' or simply 'weapons'?
Suggestion: an weapon; weapons
...s that these stone balls used to use as an weapons in hunting or fighting. The author thin...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 169, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...re some evidences such as some holes on some of the stone balls that can prove it. The prof...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'third', 'such as', 'as a matter of fact', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.275303643725 0.261695866417 105% => OK
Verbs: 0.157894736842 0.158904122519 99% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0445344129555 0.0723426182421 62% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0080971659919 0.0435111971325 19% => Some adverbs wanted.
Pronouns: 0.0202429149798 0.0277247811725 73% => OK
Prepositions: 0.157894736842 0.128828473217 123% => OK
Participles: 0.0323886639676 0.0370669169778 87% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.20451902502 2.5805825403 85% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0202429149798 0.0208969081088 97% => OK
Particles: 0.00404858299595 0.00154638098197 262% => OK
Determiners: 0.194331983806 0.128158765124 152% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00404858299595 0.0158828679856 25% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0 0.0114777025283 0% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1296.0 1645.83664459 79% => OK
No of words: 227.0 271.125827815 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.70925110132 6.08160592843 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.88156143495 4.04852973271 96% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.334801762115 0.374372842146 89% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.202643171806 0.287516216867 70% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.105726872247 0.187439937562 56% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0616740088106 0.113142543107 55% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.20451902502 2.5805825403 85% => OK
Unique words: 111.0 145.348785872 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.488986784141 0.539623497131 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 43.7932885531 53.8517498576 81% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0529801325 107% => OK
Sentence length: 16.2142857143 21.7502111507 75% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.9635236354 49.3711431718 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.5714285714 132.220823453 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2142857143 21.7502111507 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.642857142857 0.878197800319 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.39072847682 88% => OK
Readability: 36.4786028949 50.5018328374 72% => OK
Elegance: 2.5 1.90840788429 131% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.69996246479 0.549887131256 127% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.116661979495 0.142949733639 82% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0836096245633 0.0787303798458 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.600691656262 0.631733273073 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.133134023181 0.139662658121 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.317097630169 0.266732575781 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0915017679742 0.103435571967 88% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.399017793621 0.414875509568 96% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.120055782759 0.0530846634433 226% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.501969405122 0.40443939384 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0535295935021 0.0528353158467 101% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.26048565121 211% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 2.0 3.49668874172 57% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.62251655629 83% => OK
Neutral topic words: 9.0 3.1766004415 283% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 10.2958057395 136% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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