Directions: Give yourself 20 minutes to plan and write your response. Your response is judged on the quality of the writing and on how well it presents the points in the lecture and their relationship to the reading passage. Typically, an effective response will be 150 to 225 words. You may view the reading passage while you respond.
Response time: 20 minutes
The professor in the lecture does not agree with the reasons given in the reading passage for the non-conformity of the ownership of a portrait of an elderly woman in a white bonnet to a seventeenth-century Dutch painter, Rembrandt.
Firstly, the professor says that an X-ray of the painting showed that the original painting does not consist of the extravagant fur collar as shown in the portrait as it was added hundred years later by someone else to Rembrandt’s painting to make it more formal and valuable. Thus, negating the passage’s explanation that the painting is not his because of the inconsistency in the dress due to a simple linen cap of a servant and luxurious fur collar which is highly unlikely that a servant could afford.
Furthermore, the passage mentioned the incongruency in the light and shadow in the portrait which is unlike any of Rembrandt’s paintings. The lecturer corrected this reasoning by saying that the fur collar which was painted later on the painting caused this issue and that the original painting of Rembrandt consists of light-colored clothing that reflects the light on the woman’s face.
Lastly, the author cites that the extra wood pieces were glued to the original wooden panel to add the fur collar to the painting. Thus, confirming that the portrait is that of Rembrandt. Also, the wood of the original portrait was from the same tree as the wood used by Rembrandt for his other painting - The Self portrait of a hat.
Thus, the professor does not agree with the passage and suggests that the portrait is Rembrandt’s.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 181, Rule ID: NODT_DOZEN[1]
Message: Use simply: 'a hundred'.
Suggestion: a hundred
...s shown in the portrait as it was added hundred years later by someone else to Rembrand...
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Line 3, column 508, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...y unlikely that a servant could afford. Furthermore, the passage mentioned the i...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, furthermore, lastly, so, thus
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 : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1323.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 265.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99245283019 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91267025766 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.467924528302 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 383.4 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 72.0788320153 49.2860985944 146% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.0 110.228320801 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.4444444444 21.698381199 136% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.66666666667 7.06452816374 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.0382238515038 0.272083759551 14% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0190651851668 0.0996497079465 19% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0215181127058 0.0662205650399 32% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0289385512941 0.162205337803 18% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0240148180869 0.0443174109184 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 13.3589403974 126% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.96 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.2 11.0289183223 111% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 10.7273730684 177% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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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.