Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific methods proposed in the reading passage.
The reading passage and professor both discusses whether the humpback whales use stars for navigation. They give opposite opinions about this.
First, the passage contends that the intelligence of humpback whales give them opportunity to navigate by star because of their advanced cognitive ability. However, the professor doesn't believe there is a relation between intelligence and ability to navigate. Take the ducks, one of the birds, for example, their cognitive ability is quite average among animals but they can in fact navigate by stars, which shows that the duck is born with such a ability and has nothing to do with the intelligence of them.
Second, the author mentions a phenomenon on humpback whales, migrating in straight line, which shows that they must be oriented by some external objects, such as stars. Nevertheless, the professor mentions that the humpback whales have a greater possibility to navigate by using magnetic field rather than stars. Their brain contains the bio-magnetite, which can obviously be used to sense earth magnetic field. That should be the real reason for the phenomenon.
Furthermore, the articles points out the humpback whales also have another weird behavior, spy-hopping, which is quite rare among marine animals. Some people propose that they may look up for stars by doing this. The professor concedes that this behavior is very rare among marine animals. The other animals that own this behavior is sharks, however, they look for their prey in the sky by using this. Also, the humpback whales usually do this in the sky instead of night and no stars present in the sky at daytime, obviously.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...y give opposite opinions about this. First, the passage contends that the int...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...gnitive ability. However, the professor doesnt believe there is a relation between int...
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Suggestion: an
...h shows that the duck is born with such a ability and has nothing to do with the ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...to do with the intelligence of them. Second, the author mentions a phenomenon...
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Suggestion:
... the real reason for the phenomenon. Furthermore, the articles points out the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, look, may, nevertheless, second, so, for example, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1391.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 267.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20973782772 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58923693489 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539325842697 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 426.6 419.366225166 102% => 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: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.3592379234 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.3571428571 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0714285714 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.57142857143 7.06452816374 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0853769151508 0.272083759551 31% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0344428050303 0.0996497079465 35% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0276257449027 0.0662205650399 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0593793807677 0.162205337803 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0249895019796 0.0443174109184 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => 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: 12.94 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.77 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => 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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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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