The passage presents a object-searching practice that has been known for thousands of years. There is an explanation on how it works and its variations in the text, it is also depicted as a popular and accurate technique applied even nowadays. The lecturer, on the contrary, questions the validity of Dowsing due to lack of the empirical evidences.
First of all, the speaker undermines Dowsing concept citing the absence of physical grounds, thereby, expose the technique as an unreliable. The passage, indeed, fails to provide any solid information regarding the forces that cause vibrations. Moreover, the orator asserts that impossibility to detect an object vibration implies its absence and provides a counterargument mentioning possibility to capture weak signal from outer space.
Finally, according to the passage, dowsing has been raising its popularity throughout nowadays and gained some respect even from large businesses. The speaker, in turn, cites several recent experiments which found that dowser doesn’t work better than random luck. It is, however, indicated that in case of performing the experiment without strict conditions attached Dowsing may succeed.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 22, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
The passage presents a object-searching practice that has been...
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Line 2, column 128, Rule ID: DT_JJ_NO_NOUN[1]
Message: Probably a noun is missing in this part of the sentence.
...ounds, thereby, expose the technique as an unreliable. The passage, indeed, fails to provide ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, may, moreover, regarding, so, first of all, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 21.0 30.3222958057 69% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1010.0 1373.03311258 74% => OK
No of words: 178.0 270.72406181 66% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.67415730337 5.08290768461 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65262427087 4.04702891845 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01450434733 2.5805825403 117% => OK
Unique words: 125.0 145.348785872 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.702247191011 0.540411800872 130% => OK
syllable_count: 311.4 419.366225166 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.018938048 49.2860985944 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 112.222222222 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7777777778 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0 7.06452816374 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0983640727204 0.272083759551 36% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0403039340362 0.0996497079465 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0457319413139 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0638875951763 0.162205337803 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0205881359269 0.0443174109184 46% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.61 12.2367328918 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 11.23 8.42419426049 133% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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