TPO-49 - Integrated Writing Task Like many creatures, humpback whales migrate long distances for feeding and mating purposes. How animals manage to migrate long distances is often puzzling. In the case of humpback whales, we may have found the answer: the

The passage and the lecture present explanations for the ways in which whales manage to migrate long distances. While the reading relies on intelligence and behavioral patterns of whales, the lecture asserts that navigation skills come from the natural instincts and inner magnetic indicators of these animals.

First, the reading states that the animals can navigate in water due to the complex determiner that is located in their brain. It makes a whale intelligent and increases its brain power. By contrast, the lecture states that such a cognitive awareness is solely an instinct. For example, ducks orient not because they are clever but for their natural instinct.

Next, the author tells that the whales can swim long distances because of travelling in straight lines. Being settled in a line, an animal relies on starts and finds a proper direction. However, the lecturer explains this phenomenon by the presence of biomagnetide in animals' brains. With this substance, the whales feel the magnitude of the Earth and can migrate for long distances.

Final argument presented in the reading is that sometimes whales behave strangely because they need to look at starts. This relates to spy hopping, the behaviour when a whale swims with its head directed upwards. Oppositely, the lecturer claims that spy hopping can also be observed among sharks. They use it for hunting and do it during that day, which contradicts to readings' argument about spy hopping at night.

In the final analysis, the passage explains the ability of whales to migrate by their intelligence, settlement in lines and spy hopping. On the contrary, the lecture talks about the instinctive nature of orientation, application of magnetic fields instead of line migration and it also describes the questionable purpose of spy hopping.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, look, so, while, for example, on the contrary

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: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1532.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 291.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.264604811 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70306753225 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553264604811 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 470.7 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

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: 37.625571009 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.75 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1875 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 7.06452816374 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.392114526291 0.272083759551 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128497595087 0.0996497079465 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0712321012078 0.0662205650399 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.212487665386 0.162205337803 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0561066095818 0.0443174109184 127% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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