The passage and the lecture debate on whether humpback whales can navigate by the stars. The passage points out that the humpback whales are so intelligent that they can do that, at the same time, they migrate in straight lines and sometimes float straight up. However, finding these statements arguable, the lecture casts doubt on the claims and count them weak.
To begin with, according to the passage, it is said that humpback whales use stars to navigate by because they are smart. By contrast, the lecture holds the opinion that there is not real connection between intelligence and the ability to use stars to navigate by. For instance, ducks with average intelligence can use the stars to navigate by. As a consequence, it is an instinct to do that rather than intelligence.
What is more, the passage contends that humpback whales migrate in straight lines with the help of external objects or forces. The lecture, though, dismisses it by saying that it is earth magnetic field rather than stars that navigates the migration. In this case, although humpback whales migrate in straight lines, it has nothing to do with the navigation of stars.
Finally, the passage claims that humpback whales exhibit something unusual which is known as spy-hopping and agrees that they are aimed to look at the stars. On the contrary, the lecture disagrees. The lecture maintains that spy-hopping is not for looking at the stars for the purpose of navigation because this kind of behavior is also found in animals that do not migrate, for instance, sharks. Instead, sharks use it for hunting food. What is more, the behavior of spy-hopping often happens in the daytime when there are not stars at all. As a result, the lecture is not for that.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, look, so, for instance, kind of, as a result, on the contrary, to begin with, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1455.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 295.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93220338983 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53758645484 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 137.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.464406779661 0.540411800872 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 438.3 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.3277991414 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.9375 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4375 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.125 7.06452816374 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.460476995564 0.272083759551 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148299534216 0.0996497079465 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0968251116035 0.0662205650399 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.285557474843 0.162205337803 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0278569222252 0.0443174109184 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.53 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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