TOEFL T P O 49 - Integrated Writing Task

How the humpback whales migrating long distance is still in question. It was argued that thees whales may navigate by the stars like the sailors did. In that these whales with high intelligence can swim in straight lines during the migration, sometimes they jump over the water to look at the stars, which is known for spy-hopping, there are almost no marine animals have this behavior. While the lecturer rebutts the reasons proposed in the passage.

To begin with,there is no relavance between the intelligence and the navigation ability. There are some low-intelligence animals which also can navigate like the birds and ducks,thus this reason is not convicing enough.

In addtion, the whales ablity of swimming in straight lines is not accounted by their looking at the stars. Though some animals use the landmark to make the position. The humpback whales can use their speciall organism to sense the Earth magnetic field, this is the reason why they can migrate in straight lines ,rather than looking at the stars.

Thirldy, there is no connection with the spy-hopping and looking at stars by the humpback whales. Actually, according to the lecturer, there are other animals like sharks can do spy-hopping, while they need to jump like this because of huangting for food rather than migrating in tha they do not leave their homes.

In all, the lecturer contends that even the theory that the humpback whales migrating long distance by stars navigation is fascinating, the reasons for the theory is not convincing.

Votes
Average: 0.3 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 388, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...t no marine animals have this behavior. While the lecturer rebutts the reasons propos...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 14, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , there
...roposed in the passage. To begin with,there is no relavance between the intelligenc...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 178, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , thus
...so can navigate like the birds and ducks,thus this reason is not convicing enough. ...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 109, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Though” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ccounted by their looking at the stars. Though some animals use the landmark to make t...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 312, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...n why they can migrate in straight lines ,rather than looking at the stars. Thi...
^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, look, may, so, still, thus, while, 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: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 5.01324503311 259% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1280.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 251.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09960159363 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98032404683 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62434001632 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.494023904382 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 381.6 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.6798751674 49.2860985944 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.666666667 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9166666667 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.75 7.06452816374 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => 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: 0.0 0.272083759551 0% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0 0.0996497079465 0% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0 0.162205337803 0% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
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: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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