The reading and the listening passages are both about humpback whales. While the reading passage provides three evidence to support that the whales use stars to navigate for migration, the listening passage casts doubts each point.
Firstly, the article states that since the humpback whales are intelligent and their brain is complex; thus, they have the ability to navigate by using stars as a guide. However, the professor rebuts this point by saying that there is no connection between intelligence and using stars to navigate. Ducks, for example, use stars to navigate, but they are average in term of intelligence. For that, this evidence is not accurate.
Additionally, the reading passage mentions that animals maintain movement straight by sending some signs to an object. He adds that the humpback whales do not rely on land features because they swim in open oceans, but they rely on stars. However, the lecture refutes this point. He states that there is a different explanation for the humpback whales to navigate in straight lines, which is biomagnetic. The humpback whales have a substance in the brain which is sensitive to the earth magnetic field. Therefore, this substance suggests that the humpback whales use them in order to navigate for migrating.
Finally, the reading passage claims that the humpback whales use spy-hopping to look upward for stars to navigate. In another hand, the professor says that spy-hopping used by sharks, and they use it to hunt, also they use this function during the day where is no stars. Thus, the function of spy- hopping is just a speculation.
All in all, the lecturer clearly debunks all of the three evidence that was supported in the reading passage.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 42, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...ll in all, the lecturer clearly debunks all of the three evidence that was supported in th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, look, so, therefore, thus, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 5.01324503311 279% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1442.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 282.0 270.72406181 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1134751773 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09790868904 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58273880044 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492907801418 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 437.4 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 38.1583870204 49.2860985944 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.125 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.625 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.875 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.440587968234 0.272083759551 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153913272275 0.0996497079465 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0953336234979 0.0662205650399 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.227936985927 0.162205337803 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.144971991045 0.0443174109184 327% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 13.3589403974 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.06 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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