TPO49
In the passage, the author views that the humpback whales may be navigating by the stars. However, in the lecture, the professor refutes this point from all three aspects.
To begin with, the author illustrate that the whales seem to be intelligent enough to use stars to determine the place, which totally contradicts what the lecture indicates. In the lecture, the professor holds the view that there are no connections between intelligence and using stars. For example, the duck can also use star, but the intelligence of the duck is average. So, he states that the ability of using stars is just born with.
The second point the professor doubts on the passage is that the author indicates that the whales migrate in straight lines. Nevertheless, in the lecture, the professor argues that this is just because they sense the external force-magnetic force. Due to the magnetic force, the whales can be sensitive to the direction.
Finally, another point the professor provides to refute the passage is the exhibition of an unusual behavior. In the passage, the author states that the whales sometimes observe floating straight up for minutes at a time. However, in the lecture, the professor disagree with that and provide the example of shark to refute it. He states that the shark sometimes also floats straight up, but the shark never migrates.
To sum up, the passage is full of holes and the point mentioned in it should be considered more deeply.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, may, nevertheless, second, so, for example, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1225.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 245.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95632099841 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60507945824 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.502040816327 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 378.9 419.366225166 90% => 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: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 2.5761589404 311% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.1381728824 49.2860985944 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 87.5 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.92857142857 7.06452816374 98% => 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 : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.28398741763 0.272083759551 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.09965031164 0.0996497079465 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0705916696779 0.0662205650399 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142530440492 0.162205337803 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0622698113156 0.0443174109184 141% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.42 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.77 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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