TPO-49 - Integrated Writing Task Like many creatures, humpback whales migrate long distances for feeding and mating purposes. How animals manage to migrate long distances is often puzzling. In the case of humpback whales, we may have found the answer:
The reading and the lecture are both about how animals manage to migrate long distances, specifically the example of the humpback whales, while using the stars as a guide. Whereas the author of the reading suggests that scientist found the answer, the lecturer states that this theory of the starts, although fascinating, there is no relation between starts and navigation. The lecturer casts doubt on the main points made in the reading by providing three mainly reasons.
First of all, according to the reading, the author suggests that humpback whales seem to be intelligent enough to use stars to navigate because they have a well-developed brain. The author also mentions that whales’ brain power far exceeds the rests of the animals. However, the lecturer refutes this point. He says that there is no connection between the whale brain and intelligence. Additionally, he says that whales navigate by instinct, like other animals, not because they are more intelligent.
Secondly, the reading states that because whales swim in the open ocean, they cannot rely on land features to navigate in straight line, so they oriented themselves using external objects or forces, in this case the starts. Nevertheless, the lecturer disputes this idea by saying that the earth magnetic fields in the water are actually the one who help whales get oriented, not the starts.
Finally, the reading claims that humpback whales exhibit an unusual behavior, known as spy-hopping, which is rare among marine animals and this behavior is what allow whales to look at the stars, which provide them with information to navigate. The lecturer, on the other hand, believes that this is pure speculation because whales navigate the whole day, not only at night using the starts as a guide.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, finally, first, however, if, look, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, well, whereas, while, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1498.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 289.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18339100346 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61333883685 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567474048443 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 453.6 419.366225166 108% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.6435593058 49.2860985944 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.833333333 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0833333333 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.6666666667 7.06452816374 165% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.435878853892 0.272083759551 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.151548427339 0.0996497079465 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102887912965 0.0662205650399 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.255041717038 0.162205337803 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.095107393309 0.0443174109184 215% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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