Jumping Young Salmon. Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they
cast doubt on the specific theories presented in the reading passage)
The reading passage and the lecture are both concerning the jumping of young salmon. From their contexts, it can be stated that the prevailing discussion is about the veracity of theories to explain this behavior. While the author of the reading passage claims that there are three possible theories to explain this behavior, the lecturer completely refutes the arguments in the article. Hence, arguing that these explanations are faulty for the following reasons.
Firstly, it is said by the lecturer that the feeding theory is not correct to support the jumping behavior. This is because although some species feed insects, other species of young salmon feed only zooplanct. This directly contradicts the reading passage that denotes that young salmon also feed insects, hence explaining the jumping behavior.
Secondly, the lecturer safely assumes that salmons also use different strategies to avoid predators besides jumping. Furthermore, jumping can make them more visible to birds and bears, therefore, travelling in groups and swimming in different directions could be better approaches. This idea strongly contrasts with the article that mentions that jumping out of the water helps salmons to scape or distract predators.
Finally, the lecturer believes that jumping behavior to remove lice is a huge energy consuming task. This is because it is necessary fifty or more jumps just to remove one louse. Since young salmons need energy to grow and keep strong it is not a plausible explanation.
The text, on the other hand, states that an experiment confirm that the remotion of lice from salmon body could be an explanation to the jumping behavior.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1407.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 263.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34980988593 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02706775958 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58397961623 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558935361217 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 423.0 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.6614162912 49.2860985944 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.5 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7857142857 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.64285714286 7.06452816374 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.276710915272 0.272083759551 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106045191454 0.0996497079465 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0832794695082 0.0662205650399 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151326586159 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0690359603009 0.0443174109184 156% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.75 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1407.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 263.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34980988593 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02706775958 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58397961623 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558935361217 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 423.0 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.6614162912 49.2860985944 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.5 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7857142857 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.64285714286 7.06452816374 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.276710915272 0.272083759551 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106045191454 0.0996497079465 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0832794695082 0.0662205650399 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151326586159 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0690359603009 0.0443174109184 156% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.75 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.