Humpback whales
Recently, there has been a ton of debate as to humpback whales. More specifically, in regard to the passage, the writer puts forth the idea that these whales migrate long distances as early humans sailors did; this navigating by following the stars. In the listening passage, the lecturer is quick to point out that although this sounds fascinating, there are indeed some flaws in the writer's claims. In fact, the professor believes that the evidence presented is not convincing enough to claim this, and addresses, in detail, the trouble with each point made in the reading text.
First and foremost, the author of the reading passage states that the humpbacks are intelligent enough to navigate using stars. The lecturer, however, stands in firm opposition to this claim; he states that there is no such a connection between these animals' intelligence and the way they navigate guided by the stars. He goes on to say that ducks are a good example of birds who navigate by the stars, but not specifically because they are intelligent, but more because they have evolved this ability to do so.
One group of scholars, represented by the writer, think that these whales migrate in straight lines. Of course, though, not all experts in this field believe this is accurate. Again the lecturer specifically addresses this point when he states that they are not particularly being oriented by an external object. They may have a biomagnatate in their brains, which causes them to navigate in straight lines. So it does not have to do anything with the stars.
Finally, the author wraps his argument by positing that humpback whales exhibit an unusual behavior known as spy-hopping, putting their head above the water, in order to look to the stars, Not surprisingly, the lecturer takes issue with this claim by contending that even if they may do spy-hopping, they do it also during the day where no stars are. To illustrate this, the lecturers use sharks, they use this behavior, but they do not migrate.
To sum up. it is clear that they will have trouble finding common ground on this issue as there is as the lecturer says a lot of speculation on this matter.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 252, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'animals'' or 'animal's'?
Suggestion: animals'; animal's
...e is no such a connection between these animals intelligence and the way they navigate ...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, may, so, as to, in fact, of course, in regard to, to sum up
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 : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 22.412803532 210% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1802.0 1373.03311258 131% => OK
No of words: 369.0 270.72406181 136% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88346883469 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59745883513 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525745257453 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 549.0 419.366225166 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 2.5761589404 311% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.5014041946 49.2860985944 155% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.625 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0625 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5625 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.114578012716 0.272083759551 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0408710844279 0.0996497079465 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0625260980657 0.0662205650399 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0639711372956 0.162205337803 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0434563619903 0.0443174109184 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 252, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'animals'' or 'animal's'?
Suggestion: animals'; animal's
...e is no such a connection between these animals intelligence and the way they navigate ...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, may, so, as to, in fact, of course, in regard to, to sum up
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 : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 22.412803532 210% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1802.0 1373.03311258 131% => OK
No of words: 369.0 270.72406181 136% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88346883469 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59745883513 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 145.348785872 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525745257453 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 549.0 419.366225166 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 2.5761589404 311% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.5014041946 49.2860985944 155% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.625 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0625 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5625 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.114578012716 0.272083759551 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0408710844279 0.0996497079465 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0625260980657 0.0662205650399 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0639711372956 0.162205337803 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0434563619903 0.0443174109184 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.