Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?The ability to maintain friendships with a small number of people over a long period of time is more important for happiness than the ability to make many new friends easily.Use specific reasons and ex

The reading passage talks about how humpback whales are navigating by the stars when migrating. To begin with, the writer suggests that humpback whales have a high degree of complexity, which indicates they have higher intelligence compared to other animals. Their cognitive ability provide them the knowledge of using stars for orientation. This, however, is refuted by the speaker by using duck as an example of an animal that is with an average cognitive ability is also using stars to navigate using their instinct. That is, there is no necessarily a connection between overall intelligence and the ability to utilize night sky orientation. Moreover, the author argues that it is impossible for animals to maintain their movement in a straight direction for long distances, therefore, humpback whales need to rely on stars to for migrating since they have no land features to refer to in an ocean. Quite contrary to the second suggestion raised by the writer, the listening material contends that the magnetic field is what navigate the humpback whales due to their special biomagnetic system. Lastly, the speaker refutes the point brought up by the reading material that the purpose of humpback whales exhibit spy-hopping is groundless because although this behavior is rare, shark is one of the animals that perform spy-hopping but looking for food instead of navigating by stars. In addition, humpback whales still spy hop throughout the day when is no star can be seen in the sky.

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Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, lastly, look, moreover, second, so, still, therefore, in addition, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1248.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13580246914 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70880690446 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58024691358 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 391.5 419.366225166 93% => 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: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => 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: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 68.3343270027 49.2860985944 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.666666667 110.228320801 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0 21.698381199 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.1111111111 7.06452816374 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 1.0 4.09492273731 24% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.080256628515 0.272083759551 29% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0361402854359 0.0996497079465 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0321411991653 0.0662205650399 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.080256628515 0.162205337803 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 13.3589403974 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 53.8541721854 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.13 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:

para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3

Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).

Don't need a conclusion paragraph.

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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