In the reading passage, the author provides three possible theories that show humpback whales may navigate by the stars. These arguments, however, are challenged by the lecturer.
The first theory is that humpback whales are capable of migrating by the stars because they have complex brains. Superior than other creatures, whales develop well cognitive ability to assist themselves orient. The lecturer rebuts this view, suggesting that some birds, such as ducks, also use stars to navigate; nevertheless, ducks seem don’t have high intelligence. Thus, there is no direct connection between intelligence and abilities of navigating by stars.
The second theory indicates that stars are the indispensable objects for whales to maintain straight direction over the boundless ocean. Unlike terrestrial animals, whales don’t have stable forces to locate, they can solely depend on the stars. The lecturer argues this point, providing another possibility. Instead of utilizing the stars, whales use their biomagnetite to sense the Earth magnetic field.
As for the final argument, a behavior called spy-hopping, exhibits that whales could float out of water so as to look the stars. However, the lecturer refutes this again, citing sharks as an example. The lecturer asserts that sharks do spy-hopping as well but only for hunting rather than migrating or looking stars. Moreover, whales are observed migrating and spy-hopping during days, which make this assumption implausible since there is no star in the sky.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 123, Rule ID: SUPERIOR_THAN[1]
Message: The adjective Superior is normally used with 'to'.
Suggestion: to
...ause they have complex brains. Superior than other creatures, whales develop well co...
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Line 7, column 105, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ts that whales could float out of water so as to look the stars. However, the lecturer r...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, look, may, moreover, nevertheless, second, so, thus, well, as for, as to, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 21.0 30.3222958057 69% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1299.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 232.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.59913793103 5.08290768461 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.90276135726 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71144673025 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.646551724138 0.540411800872 120% => OK
syllable_count: 389.7 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.2833622749 49.2860985944 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 92.7857142857 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5714285714 21.698381199 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.71428571429 7.06452816374 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.454446550506 0.272083759551 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.139025591789 0.0996497079465 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0720631015455 0.0662205650399 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.254722818152 0.162205337803 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0539779472218 0.0443174109184 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.9 12.2367328918 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.26 8.42419426049 110% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.