TPO 30
Both the author and the lecturer discuss whether the Greeks built a device called a burning mirror to defend themselves against the Roman attack or not. The author states that the burning mirror is just a myth. In contrast, the lecturer disagrees with this claim, casting doubt on every single point made by the author.
First, the author states that the Greeks never built such a device because they were not technologically advanced enough to build a several meters wide mirror. However, the lecturer disagrees with this idea, arguing that the mirror must not be made up of a single sheep copper and the Greeks actually made it from dozens of small flat pieces of copper shaped parabolic. Therefore, it seems that the Greeks built such a device.
Second, the author believes that the burning mirror took them a long time about 10 minutes to set the ships on fire and during that time the object had to be unmoving. On the contrary, the lecturer possesses the view that the fire reached the wood about 10 minutes but the boats did not consist of wood alone and other materials like sticky substance named pitch used to seal the space between wooden boards which caught the fire very quickly, causing the whole ship to get fired in seconds even if they were moving.
Third, the author argues that the burning mirror did not consider an improvement in setting the ships on fire as the Greeks had flaming arrows acting like the burning mirrors. So, it was not necessary to build such a device. In opposition to this, the lecturer suggests that the Romans were familiar with flaming arrows, watching them from a distance and as a result, they were always ready to put out the fire but they can just saw the mirror of the burning mirror from afar and they could not guess where the fire would set. Thus, such devices were much more surprising and effective for attacks.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, third, thus, in contrast, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1548.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 329.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.70516717325 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25891501996 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.17162563734 2.5805825403 84% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 145.348785872 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525835866261 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 464.4 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 92.2687424502 49.2860985944 187% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.0 110.228320801 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.4166666667 21.698381199 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.33333333333 7.06452816374 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.462884410011 0.272083759551 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.178798279868 0.0996497079465 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.098068762225 0.0662205650399 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.27168775036 0.162205337803 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0784522483688 0.0443174109184 177% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.99 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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