TPO 3- task 1
The passage and lecture both talk about whether or not a "portrait of an elderly woman in a white bonnet" was painted by one of the famous seventeenth century Dutch painter, Rembrandt. The passage provides three specific reason to illustrate that this painting was not the work of Rembrandt. However, the lecture counters each of this reasons with proper explanations and establishes the fact that it was indeed painted by Rembrandt.
First of all, the passage points out the clear dissonance between the dress wore by the woman in the portrait- white linen cap usually wore by servants along with a luxurious fur collar. It states that a fastidious painter like Rembrandt would have never made such an error in his painting. The lecture opposes this claim by talking about the results of an X-ray analysis of the portrait which revealed that the fur collar was not an original part of the portrait. It was later on painted over, most probably to give a formal look and increase the value of the painting.
Secondly, the passage posits that Rembrandt, a master of painting elements of light and shadow would never have made the error of incorrectly illuminating the women's face from below. The lecturer counters this by reiterating the explanations revealed by the X-ray analysis. The original painting features a simple light reflecting cloth instead of the dark fur collar; this would certainly reflect light which would eventually illuminate the women's face.
Finally, the passage claims that several pieces of woods glued together to make the back of the painting is not the characteristic of Rembrandt, and for all this reasons the painting was removed from the official catalog. However, the lecture clearly illustrates that when additional work of painting the fur was done in the original painting, extra wood panels were glued in the sides to provide a grandiose and voluminous appearance to the painting. Additionally, she also states that the wood pieces in the original paintings came from the same tree used by Rembrandt to paint his hat wearing self-portrait.
In sum, though the passage provides very vivid reason for not attributing the portrait of the elderly woman in a white bonnet to one of the work of illustrious Rembrandt. The lecturer still provides strong oppositions to all of this claims and posits that this portrait is the work of Rembrandt.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 41, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...The passage and lecture both talk about whether or not a 'portrait of an elderly woman in...
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Line 1, column 56, 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
... lecture both talk about whether or not a 'portrait of an elderly woman in a...
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Line 1, column 341, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
.... However, the lecture counters each of this reasons with proper explanations and es...
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Line 17, column 229, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...l provides strong oppositions to all of this claims and posits that this portrait is...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, still, talking about, first of all
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 : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 30.3222958057 198% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2011.0 1373.03311258 146% => OK
No of words: 393.0 270.72406181 145% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11704834606 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45244063426 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73702417522 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.470737913486 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 603.9 419.366225166 144% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 42.5219420483 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.066666667 110.228320801 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2 21.698381199 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.8 7.06452816374 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0 0.272083759551 0% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0 0.0996497079465 0% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0 0.162205337803 0% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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