Robert E. Peary was a well-known adventurer and arctic explorer who in 1909 set out to reach the North Pole. When he returned from the expedition, he claimed to have reached the pole on April 7, 1909. This report made him into an international celebrity. Though some historians have expressed doubts that Peary did, in fact, reach the North Pole, three arguments provide strong support for the truth of Peary’s claim.
The reading and the lecture are both about whether the adventurer Robert Peasry reached the North Pole or not. While the author of the reading provides three reasons to support the claim that Peary reached the pole, the lecturer opposes each of these reasons.
To begin with, the writer mentions that the National Geographic Society signed a committee to investigate the Peary's records he made and the tools he used. In the article, it is stated that the result of this investigation supports Peary's claim. The lecturer, however, rebuts this specific argument by mentioning that the committee decision was not an objective one. Moreover, she says that the members of this committee were friends of Peary, so their decision is biased.
Secondly, the author argues that the British explorer Tom Avery has made the same adventure of Peary with the same equipment and he reaches the pole in less than 37 days, which makes Peary's claims convenience. The lecture refutes this argument by stating that even if Avery used the same types of equipment, his experience is different in many ways. She states that Avery did not carry food with him as Peary did, so he had less weight to handle. Therefore, his speed is not good evidence to use as an indicator to support Peary's claim.
Lastly, the lecturer posits that the camera used by Peary was a primitive one. Therefore, its photographes could not be used to determine the position of the sun accurately.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, lastly, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1216.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 246.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94308943089 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96035189615 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47904830151 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.581300813008 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 382.5 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.9961417686 49.2860985944 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.333333333 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.41666666667 7.06452816374 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.252389489435 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0883922411742 0.0996497079465 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0616899160822 0.0662205650399 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137592872119 0.162205337803 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0647698668201 0.0443174109184 146% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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.