TPO 49 Like many creatures, humpback whales migrate long distances for feeding and mating purposes. How animals manage to migrate long distances is often puzzling. In the case of humpback whales, we may have found the answer: they may be navigating by the stars, much as early human sailors did. What we know about humpback whales makes this a distinct possibility.
The reading and lecture are both about humpback whale migratory pattern. The author of the reading believes that they use the stars to navigate to long distance. However, the lecturer casts doubts about the claims made in the passage, saying that the evidences gathered are not convincing.
First of all, the author points out that humpback whales are intelligent species and they use their cognitive ability for using stars to navigate. Conversely, the point is challenged by the lecturer. He says that humpback whales are from intelligent creatures but they are unlikely to use stars to navigate the ocean. Furthermore, he argues that there are other animals that uses star to navigate such as duck, which has average intelligence and they use their instinct to navigate rather than using their intelligence.
Secondly, the author contends that humpback whale uses straight lines to migrate and needed external signs such as stars to guide them to navigate. On the contrary, the lecturer rebuts this argument. He suggests that humpback whale uses external cues or forces on earth by method of magnetic field. Moreover, he elaborates on this by mentioning that their brain has bio magnetite which are sensitive to earth's magnetic field, so they adapt this technique to navigate rather than using stars.
Finally, the author states that they are floating straight and their head are above the water. The article denotes that they use spy hopping which enable them to look at the stars and can provide them information to get direction. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that shark use spy hopping but they do not migrate to other area or look at stars to navigate. He puts forth the idea that humpback whale spy hopping at day and they not use stars to navigate.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, finally, first, furthermore, however, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, such as, first of all, on the contrary, 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 : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 22.412803532 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1482.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 296.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00675675676 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44235027631 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483108108108 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 460.8 419.366225166 110% => 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: 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: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.1052458782 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.8 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7333333333 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0 7.06452816374 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.430096253638 0.272083759551 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.157007997657 0.0996497079465 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0866477055566 0.0662205650399 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.267321102739 0.162205337803 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.064618442158 0.0443174109184 146% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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