The reading and lecture both discuss about whether humback whales navigate by the stars. While the reading argues that whales actually orient themselves by looking at the stars and provides some evidence for this claim, the lecturer refutes this, stating that these reasons are irrelevant.
First of all, the passage suggests that humback whales’ high intelligence proves of the fact they can navigate by the stars. Since humback whales’ brains are well-developed, they can actually observe the stars for orientation. The lecturer opposes this point by arguing there is actually no connection between animals’ cognitive developments and their ability of navigating by the stars. It was also mentioned that birds also orient themselves by looking at the stars, but their brains are, in fact, average. Therefore, animals’ brains complexity is not connected to their ability observe stars for directions.
Secondly, the article argues that the fact humback whales form lines while migrating indicates their observation of stars for orientation. This movement is only possible if there are external objects by which these whales orient themselves-the stars. However, the lecturer posits that there other ways of analyzing this behavior. He explains that these whales move in straight lines because they are sensitive to magnetic field. According to him, there is an area in the whales’ brains which react strongly to these stimuli and thus, help them determine the directions. In other words, the humback whales orient themselves by magnetic field.
Finally, the passage points out that humback whales often conduct spy-hopping, in which they point ther heads upward as if to observe. It states the humback whales spy-hopped in order to observe stars. The lecturer challenges this point by mentioning the fact that some sharks also do spy-hopping but they do not orient themselves by the stars, but by their preys instead. In addition, humback-whales only spy-hopped during daytimes, when the stars can not be seen, so it is not logical to say that they do so to observe stars for directions.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well, while, in addition, in fact, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 22.412803532 187% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1794.0 1373.03311258 131% => OK
No of words: 331.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.41993957704 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26537283232 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7906807375 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.471299093656 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 536.4 419.366225166 128% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.1344699455 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.529411765 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4705882353 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.29411764706 7.06452816374 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.380819199682 0.272083759551 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.144535083385 0.0996497079465 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0455679528012 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.251942662003 0.162205337803 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0316210373544 0.0443174109184 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.2367328918 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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