Based on the given materials, the article as well as the lecture discusses humpback whales, which migrate far distances, and has been supposed that these creatures use stars to navigate their routes. The author states that there are several viable theories regarding this assumption. That being said, although lecturer surprised about the assumption, he provides several ideas to repudiate this claim.
Initially, the writer says that since whales have high degree of intelligence, they have got more brain power than the other animals, and they can use orientations at nights to find their route. However, the lecturer explains that there is no connection between intelligence and having special abilities, like using stars as a navigator. Some birds like docks can immigrate like whales, but their cognitive degree is on average among other animals. Thus, the relationship between the cognitive degree and distinct ability to immigrate is illogical.
Second, the author proclaims that animals cannot have straight movements except when they orient themselves by external objects. So, the whales need stars, as an external force, to move straight. Yet again, the speaker underscores that it has been approved that some animals need external forces to continue their movements, but in many cases the force is magnetic field of earth. Many animals, may be like whales, have bio-magnetite which makes them sensitive to feel the magnetic field, and assemble their movements.
The final point of contention between the reading and the listening passage is spy-hopping movements of humpback whales. The writer thinks that whales during their strange movements in which they look upward to sky, get information from their navigator, stars. On the other hand, the speaker explains that spy-hooping has been seen among sharks, which do not immigrate, and do this rare behavior to look for their preys during hunting process. In addition, the whales do spy-hooping even during days, in which there are no visible stars in the sky.
- TOEFL T P O 46 - Integrated Writing Task 3
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, look, may, regarding, second, so, thus, well, as to, in addition, as well as, in many cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1714.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 319.0 270.72406181 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37304075235 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22617688928 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57455530535 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 145.348785872 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583072100313 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 514.8 419.366225166 123% => 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: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.51434878587 462% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.3036045845 49.2860985944 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.266666667 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2666666667 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.26666666667 7.06452816374 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.387438956796 0.272083759551 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111886366334 0.0996497079465 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0597393402338 0.0662205650399 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.199867263413 0.162205337803 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0420299843397 0.0443174109184 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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