The issue both the reading and the listening focus on is whale navigation, but the listening casts doubt at three main points.
At the first point, the reading states that whales seem to be intelligent enough for navigating by stars. Their well-developed cognitive ability seemingly provides sound basis to use sensory stimuli for orientation at night. On the contrary, the listening argues that there are no connection between intellectual ability and stars navigation. Other animals such as ducks also use stars to navigate, but ducks only have average cognitive abilities. This suggest that stars navigation is only animal instinct, and not connected to intelligence.
At the second point, the reading mentions that whales migrate in straight lines. Animals can only maintain straight movement with external forces or objects. So whales could use star to help them keep moving straight over long distances. According to the listening, whales do maintain direction thanks to external forces, but instead by magnetic field. Whales have a substance allowing them to sense the magnetic field, which helps them migrate.
At the last point, the reading believes that whales are observed to be spy-hopping, a behavior rare among marine animals. The function of spy-hopping is for whales to look at the stars, obtaining information to navigate by. However, the listening confirms that while this behavior is indeed rare, other animals like shark also spy-hopping. Sharks, unlike whales, do not migrate or look at stars, but look for animals insteam. Furthermore, spy-hopping in whales also happen during the day, where there aren't any stars. Thus, whales using spy-hopping to navigate by stars is just speculation.
- TPO 50 Independent Writing Task 3
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- TPO 27 integrated writing Little ice age 76
- TPO-40 - Integrated Writing Task 78
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents today are more involved in their children’s education than were parents in the past.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 76
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 502, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: aren't
...also happen during the day, where there arent any stars. Thus, whales using spy-hoppi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, look, second, so, thus, well, while, such as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1453.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 268.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42164179104 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71839306165 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.582089552239 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 440.1 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 16.7930616748 49.2860985944 34% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 85.4705882353 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7647058824 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.94117647059 7.06452816374 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.490948331806 0.272083759551 180% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.162486810489 0.0996497079465 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0746660476862 0.0662205650399 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.264640164646 0.162205337803 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111799217402 0.0443174109184 252% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.86 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => 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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