The reading and listening material are contradicting with each other in terms of the reasons why a whale sings at the unusual frequency of 52 hertz. The author points out some theories to illustrate this phenomenon, while the lecturer disagrees with his opinion and refutes all the theories in the article.
First and foremost, the author states that this special whale may be a hybrid of two different whale species because a hybrid can combine the characteristics of their parents and form a unique one. However, the lecturer casts doubt about this opinion by saying that hybrid generally is the consequence of migrations, while migrations of whales are very rare. There are not enough researches to demonstrate the existence of migration in the place where the unique whale is found.
Moreover, in the article, the author points out the whale may have a damaged sense of hearing. The article uses humans' examples to illustrate that this whale's songs may sound different simply because it cannot hear the songs of other whales. This theory is opposed by the lecturer by saying that this special high pitch depends on the completed structure of the throat. Why the songs sound different is because the throat's structure is different from others' throats, rather than it is damaged. And there is no link between the ability to hear others and the structure of throats.
Finally, the theory that this whale may be a member of a rare species and its parents and relatives are now gone is also refuted. The lecturer points out that the whale must have parents even it is rare, and their parents must have the same characteristic. And if these whales exist, their voice must be recorded by the advanced techniques that researchers are using. However, the detection techniques have been used for several decades and have no records of the same sound from different whales.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, may, moreover, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1555.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 315.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93650793651 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56091127646 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48253968254 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 484.2 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 27.4534857086 49.2860985944 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 111.071428571 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.21428571429 7.06452816374 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222403229964 0.272083759551 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.083375885742 0.0996497079465 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0571985652 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134384603786 0.162205337803 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0367270278684 0.0443174109184 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.94 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => 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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