At a sale at a private home in California several years ago, a man purchased a box of photographic negatives stored in envelopes (negatives are photographic images on film or glass from which actual photographs can be made). The negatives dated from the 1920s and showed landscape scenes of the western United States. While the negatives carried no indication of the name of the photographer who created them, some people have concluded that the negatives were in fact made by the landscape photographer Ansel Adams, one of the greatest American photographers of the twentieth century. Several arguments have been offered in support of this idea.
First, the negatives include images of landscape features that Ansel Adams is known to have photographed. One of the negatives shows a large pine tree leaning downward on a cliff. The same distinctively shaped tree appears in another photograph that, without a doubt, was taken by Adams in the 1920s.
Second, the envelopes holding the negatives are numbered and marked with handwritten place names. The handwriting on the envelopes seems to resemble the handwriting of Virginia Adams, Ansel Adams’ wife. Virginia Adams is known to have assisted her husband in his work, so those who believe that Ansel Adams created these negatives have concluded that she helped her husband organize these negatives by numbering them and recording the names of the places where the images were created.
Third, a number of the negatives have been damaged by fire, it is well known that Ansel Adams’ photography studio had a fire that destroyed or damaged nearly a third of his negatives. The fact that some of the negatives bought at the sale have fire damage is consistent with the idea that they once belonged to Ansel Adams.
Both the reading and lecture discuss whether photographic negatives dated from 1920s showed landscape scenes of Western United States created by photographer Ansel Adams.
The former argues that it is made by Ansel Adams and provided three reasons to support, but latter challenges each of these points.
First of all, the passage asserts that gigantic images of pine tree of negative is resemble to one of images of pine tree created by Ansel Adam.However, the professor in lecture objects t this idea because back in the 1920 pine tree was famous. He supports his argument by presenting the example of popular park, which contains enormous number of pine trees.Indeed, many visitors used to visit there and took the photograph of pine tree.
Secondly, according to the passage, the expert opined this idea the envelopes containing negatives were numbered and marked with the handwritten location site was similiar or same handwriting of Virginia Adams, who was wife of Ansel Adams. In contrast, the lecture contends that it is not true because in the envelopes there was incorrectly spell, but the father of Virginia Adams had art studio as he was artist, she used to help her father. It was impossible that she can spell, since was quite familiar with that tasks.
Finally, the text proclaims that,
Nevertheless, the speaker is at odd with this idea
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... and took the photograph of pine tree. Secondly, according to the passage, the ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => 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: 1141.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 224.0 270.72406181 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09375 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86867284054 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60570150348 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.616071428571 0.540411800872 114% => OK
syllable_count: 352.8 419.366225166 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 59.9286033543 49.2860985944 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.625 110.228320801 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.0 21.698381199 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.875 7.06452816374 168% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.09492273731 147% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => 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: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.15992772439 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0671177963446 0.0996497079465 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0742566575177 0.0662205650399 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0771215482843 0.162205337803 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0847893008795 0.0443174109184 191% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 53.8541721854 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.68 8.42419426049 115% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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