Marco polo
The passage speaks about wether or not Marco Polo was true in his writings about his visit to China. The reading passage states that there are many critics that suggest, due to three reasons that Marco Polo never actually visited China as he has mentioned in his writings. The lecturer on the other hand disagrees with this assertion and presents reasons to explain why the claims made by the critics do not hold water.
To begin, the reading passage says that Marco Polo’s close relationship with Kubai Khan as mentioned by him is unlikely to be true because according to the book Polo had been appointed a governor in Khan’s government for three years but it is unlikely for a foreigner to have been awarded with this post. Apart from that, no mention of Marco Polo can be found in the Chinese historical texts from the era. However, the lecturer explains that because Polo wrote his works almost 20 years after his visit, some inconsistencies are to be expected. As a result, a mistake was made and Polo was not a governor but merely an ambassador in Khan’s governmet. Considering how trivial and unimportant the post is, it is obvious that his name would not be mentioned in the historical texts.
Secondly, critics speculate the absence of a mention of The Great Wall of China from the works of Polo. Considering how astonishing the wall is, especially for a European visitor, it is highly unlikely for Polo to have not mentioned it if he had visited China. The lecturer however argues that The Great Wall was built to prevent the Mongol invasion and considering the fact that Polo visited China after the Mongol invasion, under their rule, the wall would have been in an insignificant state at the time and not worthy enough of a mention.
Lastly, Frances Wood’s book Did Marco Polo Go to China presents claims that Polo did not actually visit but instead based his writings on many texts about Asia found in local libraries in Iran and Turkey. She claims this based on a number of reasons. The lecturer on the other hand mentions that Frances herself received as much criticism for her book as Polo’s original writings. And apart from that, many churches that had only been mentioned by Polo in his accounts of China have been recently discovered by archeologists, hence reinforcing the fact that Polo did infact visit China.
As it is clear, the lecturer strongly disagrees and presents enough evidence against the criticism received by Polo’s works.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 274, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...na as he has mentioned in his writings. The lecturer on the other hand disagrees wi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, hence, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, apart from, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 10.4613686534 210% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 22.412803532 165% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 30.3222958057 185% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2050.0 1373.03311258 149% => OK
No of words: 425.0 270.72406181 157% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.82352941176 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.04702891845 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51152196099 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 145.348785872 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.444705882353 0.540411800872 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 637.2 419.366225166 152% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 66.2685999833 49.2860985944 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.125 110.228320801 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5625 21.698381199 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6875 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.345661982495 0.272083759551 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.131367882128 0.0996497079465 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0892900154882 0.0662205650399 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.211069877475 0.162205337803 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0737310873084 0.0443174109184 166% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.3589403974 109% => 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: 10.97 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 63.6247240618 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => 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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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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