The topic of the reading passage and the lecture is navigation of humpback whales. The author claims that these whales use the stars for navigation, while the professor completely denies the points in the reading and provides several reasons.
First of all, the passage claims that these animals are enough intelligent to navigate by stars. The lecture, nevertheless, rejects the author's view and illustrates the idea that there is not a relationship between the intelligence and the navigation ability. Furthermore, he provides an example about the dogs and the birds; he illustrates that although, the dogs are more intelligent than birds, however, they do not migrate.
Secondly, both the passage and the lecture point to the migration of these wales are along certain lines. The author states that these whales migrate along the star lines. The lecture rebuts this argument and suggests this migration occurs along the magnetic field of the earth. He elaborated on this by mentioning that there is a material in their body which is called Biomagnetic; that exists in the body of the birds that migrate by the magnetic field of the earth.
Finally, the author goes on to mention that there is an unusual behavior in these wales. He illustrates that they put their heads on the water toward the sky, hence, they are looking to the stars for navigation. Nevertheless, the professor supports a contradictory view as compared to that of the passage. He demonstrates that other animals like Sharks have the same behavior but, they do not navigate.
- TPO 27 integrated writing : Little Ice Age 73
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- TPO-45 3
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, hence, however, look, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, while, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1302.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 255.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10588235294 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70245876057 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 125.0 145.348785872 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.490196078431 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 405.0 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => 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: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.194674175 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.153846154 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6153846154 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.53846153846 7.06452816374 121% => 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 : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.236845304273 0.272083759551 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0808997181721 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0539885517414 0.0662205650399 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13945333533 0.162205337803 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0395032884073 0.0443174109184 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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