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.
Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on the points made in the reading.
The article is about dowsing which the passage describes as a practise used to find hidden things underground. Author provides reasons to support the claim that downsing is helpfull to detect underground water, somtimes even treasure, oil and deaad bodies. However, professors refutes the claim and reasons provided by author.
First, author states that dowsing tool vibrates at certain frequencies which can be considered as an evidence that it can be used to locate things underground. But, professor explains that such sensitive tools can be easily effected by any frequencies caused underground and hence they vibrate.
Second, author explains that dowsing will help to find the traces of underground water. Professors experiment results are not inline with author's view. He describes that under variable conditions dowsing doesn't work. Coming to the results under strict coditions dowsing provides same results as of guessing works.
Third, author describes that dowsing technique can precisely indicate where to dig and drill. But, professor refuses the opinion based on experiment results. He says that attempts made to find the traces of materials in space could be found but not underground.
Finally, even though author provides reasons to state that dowsing techinque will help to detect traces of underground water, treasure, oil and dead bodies he did not provide any experiment or scientific results to prove them. On other hand, professor explanied all the reasons and came up with scientific experiments and results to conclude that practise of finding hidden things through dowsing is not appropriate.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, however, if, second, so, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1381.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 250.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.524 5.08290768461 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97635364384 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6563885258 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.552 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 404.1 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.23620309051 12% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.4850597649 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.6428571429 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8571428571 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.14285714286 7.06452816374 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.167876364864 0.272083759551 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0660092408779 0.0996497079465 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0530788301376 0.0662205650399 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101784847652 0.162205337803 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0188056358087 0.0443174109184 42% => 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: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.44 12.2367328918 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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