TPO 49 - Integrated writing

The reading the lecture are both about the humpback whales that migrate to long distances. The author of the reading believes that the humpback whales use stars to navigate to for travel purpose . The lecturer, casts doubts on the claims made in the article. He thinks that the hypothesis is wrong and refutes each and every claims made in the passage.

First and foremost, the article points out that the humpback whales are intelligent and they are capable of using stars for navigational purposes. It is also mentioned that the humpback whales’ brain are powerful in making sense of night sky to orient by itself. The lecturer challenges this point. He provides a contradicting example by pointing out duck as an example which posses less intelligence that make uses of stars for navigational purpose. He suggests that intelligence doesn't correlate with navigation.

In addition to that, the author contends that the humpback whales orient themselves in straight lines using the external forces such as stars which are similar in birds. The lecturer rebuts this argument. He suggests that the whales use external forces to connect with earth's magnetic field using the whales’ brain's magnetic field presence.

Last but not least, the article notes that the whale pops its head out of the water which is behavior in order to check the direction of the stars. The lecturer, on the hand, posits that another ocean creature such as sharks that pops out of the water while swimming. This type of behavior is to look for food but not for navigation. Hence, the whale keeps its head out of water in order to look for predators not for in search of stars for navigation.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 196, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
... stars to navigate to for travel purpose . The lecturer, casts doubts on the claim...
^^
Line 1, column 199, 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.
...ars to navigate to for travel purpose . The lecturer, casts doubts on the claims ma...
^^^
Line 3, column 487, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... purpose. He suggests that intelligence doesnt correlate with navigation. In addit...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 454, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... for in search of stars for navigation.
^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, look, so, while, in addition, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1405.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 282.0 270.72406181 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98226950355 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09790868904 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5454256813 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.489361702128 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 421.2 419.366225166 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.1141703066 49.2860985944 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.8125 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.625 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.875 7.06452816374 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.420036818549 0.272083759551 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134238761134 0.0996497079465 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0999736078605 0.0662205650399 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.245405602169 0.162205337803 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0306563016306 0.0443174109184 69% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.56 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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