In 1957 a European silver coin dating to the eleventh century was discovered at a Native American archaeological site in the state of Maine in the United States. Many people believed the coin had been originally brought to North America by European explorers known as the Norse, who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and came into contact with Native Americans almost a thousand years ago. However, some archaeologists believe that the coin is not a genuine piece of historical evidence but a historical fake: they think that the coin was placed at the site recently by someone who wanted to mislead the public. There are three main reasons why some archaeologists believe that the coin is not genuine historical evidence Great Distance from Norse Settlements First, the Native American site in Maine where the coin was discovered is located very far from other sites documenting a Norse presence in North America Remains of Norse settlements have been discovered in far eastern Canada. The distance between the Maine site and the Norse settlements in Canada is more than a thousand kilometers, suggesting the coin has no real connection with the settlements. No Other Coins Found A second problem is that no other coins have been found at the Canadian sites that were inhabited by the Norse. This suggests that the Norse did not bring any silver coins with them to their North American settlements. No Use for European Coins Third, the Norse who traveled to North America would have understood that silver coins would most likely be useless to them. Silver coins may have been in wide use in Europe at the time, but the Norse, as experienced explorers, would have known that native North Americans did not recognize silver coins as money.
In the reading passage, the author discusses three kinds of the reasons to illustrate that the coin which was found in the north American is a historical fake and someone wanted to mislead the public, while the lecturer claims that what the reading passage states is not convincing and disputes those reasons presented in the reading passage by several proofs.
First, the writer states that coin was found far from the Norse settlements, therefore, there is no connect between the coin and the settlements. On the other hand, the speaker refutes this view point by saying that some native tribe site actually are too far away from each other, meanwhile, the native people could travel long distances to the north.
Second, the belief in the reading passage is that because there was no other coin on the Norse inhabited in the Canadian, we can understand that the Norse didn't bring any silver coin with them to the Native American settlement, while the lecturer view to this issue from an opposite angle. According with the speaker they may have brought their coins with them, but when they want to return, they took them again.
Additionally, the author makes point that North American settlement did not recognize the silver coins as money, consequently they are useless on those areas. However, the lecturer opposes this claim and demonstrate a different idea she says that Native habitats apilling to the unusual objects, therefore, they may have used them to their trades as barter.
All in all, the professor clearly identifies the weaknesses in the reading passage and convincingly shows that the central argument in the reading passage, the idea that the someone wanted to mislead the public by coin, is accurately incorrect.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 156, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...adian, we can understand that the Norse didnt bring any silver coin with them to the ...
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Line 9, column 171, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'someone'?
Suggestion: the; someone
...t in the reading passage, the idea that the someone wanted to mislead the public by coin, i...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, consequently, first, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, while, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1463.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 288.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07986111111 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44450116333 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527777777778 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 441.0 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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: 36.0 21.2450331126 169% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 74.4344300374 49.2860985944 151% => OK
Chars per sentence: 182.875 110.228320801 166% => OK
Words per sentence: 36.0 21.698381199 166% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.625 7.06452816374 179% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.174885181282 0.272083759551 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0811016177236 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0401094188594 0.0662205650399 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0948917819741 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.037894460072 0.0443174109184 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.5 13.3589403974 153% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.4 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 11.0289183223 147% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.78 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 10.7273730684 163% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.4 10.498013245 156% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.