Dowsing
The reading and the lecture are both about dowsing which is an old practice of finding hidden things such as underground water, oil, and buried treasures. The author of the reading is confident about the success of this ancient practice. The lecturer, however, challenges that point of view. She is of the opinion that the successes of dowsers are questionable.
To begin with, the author of the reading passage claims that dowsers are able to locate undergroud water by feeling the energy of its flow. This claim is challenged by the lecturer. She notes that this is against the laws of physics and it requires extraordinary evidence to prove it.
Secondly, the author describes various instruments of dowsers and how they are used. The lecturer, however, argues that there are no instruments yet discovered that could detect such forces. She mentions the sophisticated instruments that are not at this technological level yet to illustrate that there is a huge gap between the technological advance and ability to detect the forces which dowser claim to be able to detect.
Finally, the author posits that there are an enough number of testimonials of satisfied customers to prove the success of this ancient art. In contrast, it is mentioned in the lecture that such successes are simply the result of the probability theory. She elaborates on this by bringing up the point that anyone eventually could stumble upon undergroud water if trying hard enough.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 239, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, in contrast, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1233.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 241.0 270.72406181 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11618257261 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94007293032 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75980715413 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.526970954357 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 378.9 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.5053525992 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.8461538462 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5384615385 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.07692307692 7.06452816374 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
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: 0.040908425077 0.272083759551 15% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0130809742595 0.0996497079465 13% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0453138240599 0.0662205650399 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0276097976084 0.162205337803 17% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0478215722445 0.0443174109184 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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