The lecturer and the reading passage offer three opposing views on whether humpback whales use the stars to navigate their migration path or not. While there are some reasons stated in the reading passage which support this theory, the lecturer casts some doubts on this theory.
First, the lecturer states that there is no real connection between intelligence and navigation abilities. While it is mentioned in the reading passage that whales are very intelligent and they use their well-developed cognitive ability to navigate their routes, the lecturer says that there are some other animals which their cognitive abilities are average and they can also navigate the path. So, the lecturer does not find any relation between cognitive abilities and navigation system in whales and other animals.
Next, the lecturer claims that animals detect external objects and obstacles using the earth magnetic field to navigate their path. Although it is mentioned in the reading passage that humpback whales may rely on stars at night to provide them with signals to keep their direction, the lecturer states that because humpback whales have the biomagnetic ability like other animals, they would also use earth magnetic field instead of stars to navigate their path.
Finally, the lecturer asserts that they are also other animals which look upward. He states that sharks utilize this method in order to find the animal they want to hunt. While it is stated in the reading passage that humpback whales exert this method to look at the sun and figure out some information to navigate their routes, the lecturer claims that humpback whales do spy-hopping even during the days that stars are not appeared in the sky. Hence, he thinks that humpback whales do this work for other reasons.
- TPO 54 3
- TPO-50Scientists are considering the possibility of sending humans to Mars in the coming decades. Although there have been successful manned missions to the Moon in the 1960s and 1970s, Mars is 150 times further away from Earth than the Moon is. Thus the 3
- TPO 49 73
- Some people prefer to focus on ambitious dreams while others think realistic goals are more important. Which do you prefer and why? 70
- TPO 46 Integerated 80
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, hence, look, may, so, well, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1500.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1724137931 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31302983454 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 130.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.448275862069 0.540411800872 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 466.2 419.366225166 111% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less 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: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 87.3106924998 49.2860985944 177% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.363636364 110.228320801 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3636363636 21.698381199 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 7.06452816374 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.362534060425 0.272083759551 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.155759734906 0.0996497079465 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.087735750801 0.0662205650399 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.241053405177 0.162205337803 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0621602138498 0.0443174109184 140% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 53.8541721854 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => 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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