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TOEFL integrated writing: Chevalier de Seingalt
The article states that the memoir written by Chevalier de Seingalt about his life and adventure is not a valuable historical source as the events are fabricated and lacks authenticity using three reasons to substantiate its claim.The lecturer however refutes each of the author's reasons.
Firstly,the reading claims that chevalier was not a wealthy man and in reality borrowed money from Swiss merchants to party and gamble.The professor opposes this claim by explaining that Chevalier had to first convert his assests into money by selling it to merchants.As it takes time to convert these asset...
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Sentence: The professor opposes this claim by explaining that Chevalier had to first convert his assests into money by selling it to merchants.
Error: assests Suggestion: assets
Sentence: Secondly,the author posists that the conversations in the memoir between him and Voltaire are not accurate as the memoir was written several years after these conversations took place.
Error: posists Suggestion: posits
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No. of Words: 358 250 (write the essay in 20 minutes)
Number of Paragraphs: 5 4
Don't need a conclusion. Correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
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Score: 26 in 30
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 15 12
No. of Words: 358 250
No. of Characters: 1806 1200
No. of Different Words: 183 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.35 4.2
Average Word Length: 5.045 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.528 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 136 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 105 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.867 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.681 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.867 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.36 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.613 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.131 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 4