Integrated Task : Dowsing

The passage discusses about the dowsing practice of finding hidden things using which dowsers are able to locate underground water. However, in the lecture, the Professor casts doubts on these claims by discussing findings of certain experiments.
The reading claims that underground water is detected when the dowser is able to feel the energy of the flowing underground streams vibrating through their device at certain frequencies. However, the Professor refutes this claim by saying that this is an unusual claim which is against the physics law. She explains that even the most sensitive instrument are unable to detect the forces which may be given off by various objects easily.
She,further, provides example of an experiment in which dowsing was conducted in restricted scientific conditions. It was found that dowsing could not work under those conditions. However, when dowsing was conducted in unrestricted conditions it was successful. Hence, she believes that it's completely based on luck and the probability of a dowser locating underground water or a normal person is same.
Thus, in the light of absence of any substantial evidence regarding how dowsing can be used to locate underground water, the claim remains questioanable and fallacious for her.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, may, regarding, so, thus

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1075.0 1373.03311258 78% => OK
No of words: 198.0 270.72406181 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.42929292929 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.75116612262 4.04702891845 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8701314118 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.626262626263 0.540411800872 116% => OK
syllable_count: 320.4 419.366225166 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 35.7603131977 49.2860985944 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.5 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.4 7.06452816374 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0961275935805 0.272083759551 35% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0460374158575 0.0996497079465 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0473012386058 0.0662205650399 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0622212224373 0.162205337803 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0424925971371 0.0443174109184 96% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.2367328918 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.36 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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