Dowsing
Dowsing is the millennia-old practice of finding hidden things. The most well-known activity of dowsing involves the use of a device such as a forked stick to locate underground water. To this end, the dowser walks slowly back and forth over an area of ground holding the dowsing tool out in front with both hands. It is said that the dowser, by concentrating carefully, is somehow able to feel the energy of the flowing underground streams vibrating through the rod at certain frequencies, and thus is able to tell precisely where to dig or drill to find water. Sometimes the dowsing tool will twist and jerk or suddenly point downward. Some dowsers hold two L-shaped rods, one in each hand. In this case, when he or she walks over an area of underlying water, the rods cross over indicating the place where digging should commence.
In recent years dowsing has gained in popularity not only as a method for finding underground water but also for trying to uncover other objects including buried treasure, oil, or even dead bodies. A recent application has been the search for what some consider harmful energy fields in an attempt to avoid them. Even large businesses and official organizations pay dowsers for their detection skills. Although no one is completely sure how dowsing works, the testimonials of satisfied customers bear witness to the success of this ancient art.
The passage states about the procedure of dowsing and how this method is used in recent years for more than one task. However, the lecturer puts doubt on the truthfulness of this method.
The lecturer claims that people assume this method works well in all situation without any evidence. This method is against the law of Physics and it requires an evidence to prove this method's truthfulness. But the passage doesn't claim anything about it.
The lecturer claims that after the experiment with the tool which is able to detect weak radio still can't be able to detect a underground frequency. Also she puts question on the method of dowser tool that how it can detect it. Moreover the passage states that no one is completely sure about how dowsing works.
The lecturer opines that under strict conditions the dowsing method doesn't work. He also claims that it is a hypothesis and a random method. Without strict conditions, dowsing works perfectly. However the passage states that this method is gaining popularity not only as a method for finding underground water but also for other objects.
To conclude, according to the passage the dowsing is a successful method for finding underground objects. Although the lecturer put questions on this method and claims it as a hypothesis which works only on some conditions.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, moreover, so, still, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1111.0 1373.03311258 81% => OK
No of words: 221.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02714932127 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.85565412703 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55221269567 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 108.0 145.348785872 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.488687782805 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 333.0 419.366225166 79% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.6814608651 49.2860985944 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.3571428571 110.228320801 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7857142857 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.21428571429 7.06452816374 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 14.0 4.19205298013 334% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.102992016268 0.272083759551 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0430587676924 0.0996497079465 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0296418945336 0.0662205650399 45% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0699487645365 0.162205337803 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0150321966173 0.0443174109184 34% => 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: 10.2 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.52 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 44.0 63.6247240618 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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