tpo 28 Robert Peary's trip to the North Pole
The material discusses if Robert E. Peary reached the North pole or not. While the reading claims three pieces of evidence that he indeed reached the North Pole, the listening challenges all this evidence and says that they are inconvincing.
First, the author states that the National Geographic Society made a committee and declared that Peary had persuasive documents confirmed that he reached the North Pole. On the other hand, the professor opposes this and points out that this committee was not completely objective, since it was formed from Peary's close friends. Furthermore, the lecturer adds that this investigation lasted after two days, so it did not examine everything properly. The speaker adds that this committee was biased and not trustworthy.
Second, the writer posits that Peary could reach the North Pole in thirty-seven days, since the British explorer Tom Avery made the same trip in less than 37 days under the same condition. On the contrary, the professor encounters this and cites that it is true that Avery reached the North Pole in less than 37 days with the same sled, but his sled was not carrying food. The lecturer explains that his food was dropped by an airplane. Moreover, the speaker adds that Avery traveled during more favorable weather made his trip much way easier than Peary's trip.
Third, the reading brings up that Peary's photographs could be used to calculate the sun's position in the sky. Conversely, the professor contradicts this and contends that Peary used a primitive camera, so the phots were fussy and can not establish the sun's position precisely. Furthermore, the lecturer points out that these photos faded and worn over time, so they were blurred and could not give confident evidence.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, first, furthermore, if, moreover, second, so, third, while, as for, it is true, on the contrary, 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 : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1461.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 288.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07291666667 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49826328565 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555555555556 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 437.4 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.6878385412 49.2860985944 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.357142857 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5714285714 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.35714285714 7.06452816374 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => 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: 0.472499953748 0.272083759551 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.160665418722 0.0996497079465 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.133583402462 0.0662205650399 202% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.275727191894 0.162205337803 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.072761808109 0.0443174109184 164% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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