The Chevalier de Seingalt
There has been a ton of debate as to how reliable the memoir of the Chevalier is. More specifically, the writer casts doubt on the credibility of the memoir written by Chevalier close to end of his life. In the listening passage, the lecturer is quick to point out there are some serious flaws in the writer's claims. In fact, the professor believes that the writing of Chevalier is very credible historical resource, and addresses, in detail, the trouble with each point made in the reading text.
Firstly, the author states that in memoir Chevalier states that he was a rich person with considerable assets, which allowed him to make parties often in Switzerland. However, the writer casts shadow on that since, according to the some evidence he borrowed money from merchant. In the listening , however, the speaker stands in firm opposition to this claim. In the listening, for example, the professor states that he indeed was rich, but still borrowed from merchants not due to lack of money but rather due to complicated system of asset-to-money conversion time.
One group of scholars, represented by the writer, think that the dialogue written in memoir between Voltaire and Chevalier lacked accuracy, since the actual conversation was held a long time ago. Again, the speaker specifically addresses this point when he states that the Chevalier had copybooks where he had written the dialogues the same night after conversation and there are witnesses that support this claim.
Finally, the author wraps his argument by positing that the story of escape from the jail is imaginary creation of Chevalier. Since, according to author, it was more realistic that he had bribed the jailers to free him. Not surprisingly, the lecturer takes issue with this claim by contending that bribery was no option for him and that the story with escape is indeed true. He goes on to say that the evidence from governmental documents of those time support this claim.
To sum up, both the writer and professor hold conflicting views about the reliability of the Chevalier memoirs. It is clear that they will have trouble finding common ground on this issue.
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- The Chevalier de Seingalt 80
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rties often in Switzerland. However, the writer casts shadow on that since, accor...
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Message: Did you mean 'same'?
Suggestion: same
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
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Suggestion:
...the Chevalier had copybooks where he had written the dialogues the same night aft...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, so, still, as to, for example, in fact, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 59.0 30.3222958057 195% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1799.0 1373.03311258 131% => OK
No of words: 358.0 270.72406181 132% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0251396648 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34981470047 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65866894766 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 145.348785872 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525139664804 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 544.5 419.366225166 130% => 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: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 2.5761589404 349% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.8216651814 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.4375 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.375 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.75 7.06452816374 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.185224933079 0.272083759551 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0610956438961 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.067423399873 0.0662205650399 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0975238425739 0.162205337803 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0531824950446 0.0443174109184 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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