TOEFL T P O 49 - Integrated Writing Task
The article and the lecture are both about the migration ability of humpback whales and whether they can manage a long-distance migration. The reading believes that humpback is capable of navigating by stars when it migrates. However, the lecturer doubts that if there was sufficient convincing evidence to support the hypothesis and refutes each of the author's points.
To begin with, the author points out that humpback is intelligent enough to use stars as its navigation tool on their way to a far place. The lecturer, however, concerns that the relation between animal intelligence and the capability of using stars to navigate is not solid enough. For instance, he brings up that duck without being proven as highly intelligent animals use stars for orientation as well.
Second, according to the reading, moving in straight lines makes humpback whales to stay in the right direction and avoid being lost in the open ocean. On the contrary, the lecture challenges the argument by indicating that sensing the external objects or physical forces is the key for whales to maintain their direction. There is a magnet built inside their bodies helping them feel the way to the destination.
Finally, the author considers that a special behavior called spy-hopping, which occurs among animals rarely, explains how humpback looks upon the stars to distinguish its way when migrating in a long distance. The lecturer, on the other hand, questions that humpback exhibits such behaviors on the purpose of migration. He further illustrates that sharks, for instance, conduct spy-hooping to hunt for food. Additionally, they behave in this way while there are no stars in the sky, demonstrating that spy-hooping has nothing to do with migration.
Comments
well done!
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would you please tell me where can I get the questions? I can only find the answers.
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 24 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 12
No. of Words: 280 250
No. of Characters: 1428 1200
No. of Different Words: 167 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.091 4.2
Average Word Length: 5.1 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.701 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 111 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 85 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.538 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.3 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.769 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.336 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.573 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.093 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...d refutes each of the authors points. To begin with, the author points out tha...
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Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... them feel the way to the destination. Finally, the author considers that a spe...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, look, second, so, well, while, for instance, on the contrary, 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: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 5.01324503311 339% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1465.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 280.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23214285714 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79374072614 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 145.348785872 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.596428571429 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 441.9 419.366225166 105% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.6532966988 49.2860985944 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.692307692 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5384615385 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.92307692308 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
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: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.3 8.42419426049 110% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 63.6247240618 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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