tpo 49
The passage and the lecture discuss whether humpback whales navigate by stars or not. The reading presents three reasons that support this idea. However, the professor in the lecture argues with all of them and believes none of them are convincing.
First, the passage claims humpback whales seem to be intelligent enough to navigate by stars. However, the professor refutes this reason completely because there is no connection between intelligence and the ability to use stars for navigating. He examples ducks that navigate by stars but they aren’t intelligent animals at all. Indeed, it connected with the instinct of animals, not their intelligence.
Second, the reading states these whales migrate in straight lines which is possible just when they orient themselves by external objects or Force. However, the lecturer argues with this idea by pointing out that although the idea that humpback whales orient themselves by external objects or force is true, stars are not responsible in this case. Actually, it is the earth's magnetic field that forces the whales to migrate in straight lines by affecting their brains.
Third, the article claims they show some strange behaviors like spy-hopping that support the idea that they use stars for navigating. However, the professor opposes this reason by explaining that they don’t look upward to the stars. Actually, sky-hopping is a method for looking for other animals like sharks. Besides, they exhibit this behavior during the day that seeing stars is impossible. Hence, this behavior doesn’t relate to their ability to navigate by using stars.
Although the letter presents three reasons to support the idea that humpback whales use stars for navigating, the professor disagrees with all of them and explain why they are not convincing.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, besides, but, first, hence, however, look, second, so, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1534.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 285.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38245614035 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59891778505 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.484210526316 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 456.3 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.25 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.875 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8125 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.375 7.06452816374 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.422625659151 0.272083759551 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.142077001056 0.0996497079465 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0630930221952 0.0662205650399 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.239618933976 0.162205337803 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0501666433467 0.0443174109184 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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