Both the lecture and reading passage talks about humpback whales migration. While the reading states the theory about how whales navigate, the lecture refutes this, saying the theory is fascinating but lacks enough evidence to be true.
First of all, the reading article claims whales are intelligent and has high cognitive ability to use stars to navigate during the migration period for feeding and mating. However, the lecture argues that other animals like dogs, tend to use stars for navigation, but there is not enough evidence to establish the connection between overall intelligence and navigation using stars.
Next, the article states whales migrate in straight lines by orienting themselves according to external forces or objects. Birds use physical landmarks for navigation, since there are no landmarks in open oceans, whales use stars. The lecture counters this point by stating earth's magnetic filed acts as external force. Also, whales' brain contain Bio-magnetite and helps to orient using magnetic field rather than stars.
Lastly, the reading passage argues that whales display rare behavior called spy- hopping by floating on water and looking up towards sky to watch stars. The lecture refuses this claim by pointing out that, sharks also display this rare behavior when they hunt. Moreover, the professor says whales exhibit spy-hopping during day when there are no stars.
In conclusion, the lecture disagrees with the theory presented in the reading topic and states that whales use stars for navigation is just a speculation.
- TPO-19 - Integrated Writing Task Many consumers ignore commercial advertisements. In response, advertising companies have started using a new tactic, called “buzzing." The advertisers hire people,buzzers,who personally promote (buzz) products to people 85
- TPO-41 - Integrated Writing Task Burning coal in power plants produces a waste product called coal ash, a material that contains small amounts of potentially harmful chemicals Environmentalists in the United States are concerned about the damage such harm 66
- TPO-17 - Integrated Writing Task In the past century, the steady growth of the human population and the corresponding increase in agriculture and pesticide use have caused much harm to wildlife in the United States,birds in particular. Unfortunately for b 71
- TPO-17 - Integrated Writing Task In the past century, the steady growth of the human population and the corresponding increase in agriculture and pesticide use have caused much harm to wildlife in the United States,birds in particular. Unfortunately for b 71
- TPO-08 - Integrated Writing Task Toward the end of his life, the Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798) wrote a long memoir recounting his life and adventures. The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure, but since he met many famous people, including ki 80
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, lastly, look, moreover, so, while, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 22.412803532 45% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1324.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.44855967078 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43972886251 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59670781893 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 398.7 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.8403963534 49.2860985944 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.333333333 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.25 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.41666666667 7.06452816374 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.353424019774 0.272083759551 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.13671235164 0.0996497079465 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0536111507302 0.0662205650399 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195838808617 0.162205337803 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0429711922153 0.0443174109184 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.33 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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