The reading and the listening passages are both about silver coins that were discovered at a Native American archeological site in the state of Maine in the United States. While the reading passage provides three main reasons why some archeological belief that the coin is not genuine, the professor contends that the coin is not fake and provides three reasons for that.
First of all, the article states that Maine is very far away from the Norse in Canada. On the other hand, the professor says that the native American traveled a great distance and brought many objects with them. Also, natives were interested in acquiring items from far away so, they could bring the silver coin with them.
Secondly, the author mentions that there are no other coins that have been found, which suggest that they did not bring coins with them. The lecturer refutes this point by saying it is not necessarily that they settle on. They might be packed up all the valuable object and took them back to Europe.
Finally, the reading passage contends that the Norse understood that the coins were useless. Also, they did not recognize as money. The professor cast doubts on this point by stating that it is true that they might not view it as money, but the Norse value other objects such as jewelry. Also, he mentioned that they value other things such as necklace which they used it to trade.
To conclude, the professor debunks to all points that the reading passage mentioned.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, second, secondly, so, while, such as, first of all, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => 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: 1226.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 254.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.82677165354 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99216450694 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.20134724473 2.5805825403 85% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.523622047244 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 367.2 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.3585708058 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.3076923077 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5384615385 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.30769230769 7.06452816374 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.383420334129 0.272083759551 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.133745441384 0.0996497079465 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108314821145 0.0662205650399 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.192065490986 0.162205337803 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111113562795 0.0443174109184 251% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 53.8541721854 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 11.0289183223 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.5 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 63.6247240618 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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