humpback whales

Essay topics:

humpback whales

The reading and the listening are both about whether humpback whales use stars to navigate when they travel for long distances. Three theories are mentioned in the reading passage supporting that humpback whales use stars to help them to manage their migration, all of which are refuted by the lecturer.

To begin with, the author of the reading point out that humpback whales have a complex brain which provides them with cognitive abilities, such as utilizing the stars to navigate. The lecturer, in contrast, posits that this point by saying that there is no connection between navigation by using stars and being A smart animal. Additionally, the lecturer mentions ducks as an example of animals which use stars to naviagate, but in fact their brain is not complex.

Secondly, the author states that animals use landmarks to maintain their movement in a straight direction. However, humpback whales travel in open ocean and they do not have any landmarks to rely on. For this reason, they could use an external signs such as stars to help them. The lecturer refutes this point by saying that humpback whales have send an object or use somekind of force that could be emitted outside the ocean and bring them information that would help them to navigate. He says that humpback whales have a substance in their brains called biomagnitide, which could sense the Earth's magnatic field and in this way they can maintain a straight line while they migrate.

Finally, the author mentions that humpback whales do a rare behavior called spy-hopping, where the whales floating staright up for minutes of time. This behavior indicates that humpback whales are looking at the stars to help them navigate. The lecturer, on the other hand, poists this point by saying that the spy-hopping behavior is done by other animals such as sharks. Sharks do not travel for long distances. Furthermore, humpback whales spy-hopping during the day time when no stars are visible.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 347, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'sent'.
Suggestion: sent
...int by saying that humpback whales have send an object or use somekind of force that...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, furthermore, however, look, second, secondly, so, while, in contrast, in fact, kind of, such as, to begin with, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1643.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 326.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03987730061 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49846390386 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.472392638037 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 485.1 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.974872364 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.533333333 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7333333333 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.53333333333 7.06452816374 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.363218395755 0.272083759551 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.157374087954 0.0996497079465 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.135005327335 0.0662205650399 204% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.261119185822 0.162205337803 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0902063937675 0.0443174109184 204% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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