The reading passage and lecture both discuss about migration of humpback whales. The passage provides three supports to hold up the hypothesis of navigation by stars which humpback whales do it. In contrast, lecture states that the justifications of article are not convincing and demonstrates three counterarguments.
First, the reading section posits that humpback whales are intelligent enough to navigate by stars. Conversely, the speaker opposes this idea and explain that this evidence is not convincing. Besides, some kinds of birds such as ducks can navigate by stars but they are not intelligent. He thinks that these animals born with this ability and it is not related to their intelligence.
Furthermore, the author mentions that if these kind of whales orient by some external forces or objects they will migrate in straight lines. In fact they rely on stars on track as they migrate. On the other hand, the lecturer disagrees and points out that these whales migrate using earth magnetite field.
Finally, the text indicates that humpback whales have unusual behaviors. They float straight ahead a minute with heads out of the water looking upward. Consequently, they follow stars to help them to navigate and find their destination. The professor refutes this and provides some evidence to state that it is rare to happen. For instance sharks do it but they do not migrate at all. Generally, they do this activity when they want to hunt other marine animals.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 42, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this kind' or 'these kinds'?
Suggestion: this kind; these kinds
...urthermore, the author mentions that if these kind of whales orient by some external force...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, consequently, conversely, finally, first, furthermore, if, look, so, for instance, in contrast, in fact, kind of, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1249.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 240.0 270.72406181 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20416666667 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93597934253 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71492467156 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5875 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 378.0 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 22.2499122189 49.2860985944 45% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 78.0625 110.228320801 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.0 21.698381199 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.625 7.06452816374 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => 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: 0.433523034461 0.272083759551 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129787627133 0.0996497079465 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0601855489781 0.0662205650399 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.244927559566 0.162205337803 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0612218246879 0.0443174109184 138% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 13.3589403974 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.29 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => 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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