The design for the Sydney Opera House was selected from entries in an international competition held in 1956. From more than 230 designs submitted by major architectural firms worldwide, the committee selected a dramatic concept by Jorn Utzon, a Danish architect who was virtually unknown outside of Denmark. He described his work as more like a sculpture than a building because it appeared to change shape depending on the direction from which it was viewed. He was also very committed to organic principles, which dictated that the structure must fit in with the environment. Situated in Bennelong Point, a promontory that stretches into the harbor, Utzon drafted the curved roofs of the opera house to look like a sailing ship at full sail on the water.
Clearly, the roof is the most revolutionary part of the design, which was so far ahead of the capabilities of engineering at the time that Utzon had to spend several years reworking the details for the construction of the roof sails in order to help the engineers solve the problems associated with actually building them. For example, stabilizing the shells that rose almost 200 feet high presented a serious challenge. Prestressed concrete was very new in building construction at the time that it was used to make the ribbed shells for the roof. In addition, computer technology was just catching up with the complex structural calculations and models that the architect needed for his vision to be realized.By 1966, a decade after the design was chosen, the opera house was not even near completion. It was over budget, there were problems with the engineers and the contractors, and the fate of the structure was the object of political debate; Jorn Utzon resigned from the project. Eventually completed by others, by the time that it opened in 1973, it had been under construction for 17 years. The roof alone had required almost 2200 precast concrete sections, some of which weighed 15 tons, held together by 220 miles of tensioned steel cable and covered by more than a million white glazed ceramic tiles.
Sydney Opera House was a clear example of the advancement in the structural engineering in that period. It was considered as a masterwork of architecture in modern period. According to the lecturer, it remarks as a creature of the computer age and the age of high technological revolution for the artist of that period. The professor further explains the Sydney Opera House as a ship in harbour rather than a structural monument. It was way different from the organic structure completed by Frank Lloyd.
The design of the Sydney Opera House was a dramatic concept by John Utzon which was more like a sculpture than a building due to its changing appearance of shape when viewed from different directions. It took around 17 years for the construction of Opera House to get completed which was unique in its kind. It's roof alone had required almost 2200 precast concrete sections out of which some were 15 tons heavy, held by 220 miles of tensioned steel cable and covered by more than a million white glazed ceramic tiles. It was way different from a international school back then in Sydney and being designed in international skyscrapper mode, the professor classifies this building as unique.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 545, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...eramic tiles. It was way different from a international school back then in Sydne...
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Discourse Markers used:
['if', 'so', 'then']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.289719626168 0.261695866417 111% => OK
Verbs: 0.116822429907 0.158904122519 74% => OK
Adjectives: 0.102803738318 0.0723426182421 142% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0327102803738 0.0435111971325 75% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0373831775701 0.0277247811725 135% => OK
Prepositions: 0.163551401869 0.128828473217 127% => OK
Participles: 0.0560747663551 0.0370669169778 151% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.84550131911 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0140186915888 0.0208969081088 67% => OK
Particles: 0.00467289719626 0.00154638098197 302% => OK
Determiners: 0.126168224299 0.128158765124 98% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0 0.0158828679856 0% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.018691588785 0.0114777025283 163% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1197.0 1645.83664459 73% => OK
No of words: 202.0 271.125827815 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.92574257426 6.08160592843 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.76996954942 4.04852973271 93% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.351485148515 0.374372842146 94% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.267326732673 0.287516216867 93% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.19801980198 0.187439937562 106% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.143564356436 0.113142543107 127% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84550131911 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 115.0 145.348785872 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.569306930693 0.539623497131 106% => OK
Word variations: 52.6289223024 53.8517498576 98% => OK
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0529801325 69% => OK
Sentence length: 22.4444444444 21.7502111507 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.5866867836 49.3711431718 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.0 132.220823453 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4444444444 21.7502111507 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.333333333333 0.878197800319 38% => OK
Paragraphs: 2.0 4.09492273731 49% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.39072847682 29% => OK
Readability: 49.1771177118 50.5018328374 97% => OK
Elegance: 2.725 1.90840788429 143% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.379546470255 0.549887131256 69% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.137991744052 0.142949733639 97% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0751276977651 0.0787303798458 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.539786304103 0.631733273073 85% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.109364614081 0.139662658121 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.191473575589 0.266732575781 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0783038770855 0.103435571967 76% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.438680553798 0.414875509568 106% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0 0.0530846634433 0% => Paragraphs are so close to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.32295001368 0.40443939384 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00399198190816 0.0528353158467 8% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.26048565121 117% => OK
Positive topic words: 0.0 3.49668874172 0% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 0.0 3.62251655629 0% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 2.0 3.1766004415 63% => OK
Total topic words: 2.0 10.2958057395 19% => More topic words wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Not in a correct format.
The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%) but more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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