TPO49 integrated
The author in the reading passage holds that humpback whales are navigated by starts to migrate long distances, which the lecturer in the lecture expresses an opposite opinion.
To begin with, the author claims that humpback whales are more intelligent than most other animals, so they have the cognitive ability to use stars for orientation. However, the lecturer refutes that no specific connection has been verified between intelligence and the cognition of night sky. For example, some birds such as ducks are also able to use star navigation while their intelligence and cognition ability are just at an average level. Thus, it is not likely that a high degree of cognition ability can directly lead to the capability of astronavigation.
Moreover, the author believes that only the starts can provide direction information for humpback whales to move in a straight line for long distances because they are the only external objects in the ocean. On the contrary, the lecturer rebuts that it can be the earth magnetic field that allows them to maintain such movement. The bio-magnitude component inside their bodies makes those whales sensitive to the magnetic field of the earth, which helps them to stay on a straight track during migration.
Finally, the author puts forward that the spy-hopping, an unusual behavior of humpback whales looking upward, indicates that the navigating information comes from the stars. Instead, the lecturer retorts that this behavior is not of such rarity. Actually, other animals such as sharks exhibit the same spy-hopping pattern to hunt food as they do not migrate. Besides, the fact that spy-hopping occurs mostly in the daytime when there are no stars further diminishes the explanation of seeking stars.
- TPO30 Integrated 63
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 95
- TPO49 integrated 85
- TPO30 integrated 63
- College students should be encouraged to pursue subjects that interest them rather thanthe courses that seem most likely to lead to jobs. 70
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, finally, however, if, look, moreover, so, thus, while, for example, such as, on the contrary, to begin with
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 : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 5.01324503311 299% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1480.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 281.0 270.72406181 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26690391459 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09427095027 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69951755748 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.580071174377 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 461.7 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => 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: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.4928592192 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.333333333 110.228320801 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4166666667 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.4166666667 7.06452816374 162% => 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: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.484398684408 0.272083759551 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148955024665 0.0996497079465 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101363611314 0.0662205650399 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.257586024003 0.162205337803 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0588708674561 0.0443174109184 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.3589403974 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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