The passage and the lecture discuss the historical authenticity of a European silver coin that was discovered in an American archaeological site. The author of the passage presents three reasons to claim that the coin is not a genuine historical evidence. However, the lecturer believes none of the reasons could strongly refute the historical authenticity of the coin.
The author argues that where the coin was founded is located very far from other Norse settlements have been discovered in eastern Canada. The lecturer argues against this reason and believes that many other historical objects have been founded that came from far distances. Native Americans traveled great distances within North America, and they were interested in obtaining objects they found interesting. As a result, they could have reached European settlements in Canada and brought this coin to America.
Furthermore, the reading passage holds the view that no other European coins have been found at other Norse settlements. Therefore, the Norse did not bring any coins with them to their settlements. Nevertheless, the lecturer illustrates that the Norse did not create permanent settlements in North America. Moreover, when they backed to Europe they packed up all their valuable possessions. However, they may not packed all silver coins up and forgot some of them. Therefore, it is possible that this coin is one of the coins that they forgot to bring back.
Finally, the reading asserts that the silver coin would have been useless to the Norse, for the North Americans did not use silver coins as money. The lecturer opposes this point by explaining that North Americans value the attractive and unusual objects. Therefore, while they found the silver coins interesting and beautiful, they could use the coins to trade with. Consequently, this claim does not possess a strong support in order to be acceptable.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, finally, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, then, therefore, while, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => 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: 1602.0 1373.03311258 117% => OK
No of words: 303.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28712871287 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69484022535 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475247524752 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 489.6 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 22.8291381829 49.2860985944 46% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 94.2352941176 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8235294118 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.88235294118 7.06452816374 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.602578492576 0.272083759551 221% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.203457710335 0.0996497079465 204% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106281888359 0.0662205650399 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.368462554527 0.162205337803 227% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0458280006969 0.0443174109184 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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