Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently, however, archaeologists discovered such a "Palean" basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea. The Brim River is very deep and broad, and so the ancient Paleans could have crossed it only by boat, and no Palean boats have been found. Thus it follows that the so-called Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The author of the passage establishes that distinctive basket was not unique to Palean city by taking unwarranted assumptions. The author needs to justify assumptions to support his conclusion by providing further evidence.
An assumption has been made that both cities, Palean and Bithos, were different and Brim river existed in same time period. It could be the case that both cities were part of a single large city where these distinctive basked were made. Later, a geographical change created a river and separated the large city in two separate cities on either banks of the Brim river. If it’s established that river and both cities existed in same time, then it concludes both cities were separate and the basket could not be unique to Palean.
Argument for only boats being used to cross takes makes an assumption from current situation of the river, being wide and deep. However, it could be the case that in ancient time the river was thin and shallow and people could have swim across or built a bridge. Since this factor is important to say that only boats can be used to cross the river, it needs to answered to confirm there was no other means of transportation.
The mode of transportation between both cities has been assumed by Palean boats only. Author fails to imagine that a boat from Bithos could be used as a transportation medium which could point that both cities would be trading. As baskets had a distinctive style, it could have been traded and can be found in either city. This answer is required to say that basket could have been unique to either cities.
In conclusion, author has disregarded various factors which needs to be answered before establishing uniqueness of the the basket.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 233, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'swum'.
Suggestion: swum
... thin and shallow and people could have swim across or built a bridge. Since this fa...
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Line 9, column 116, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...wered before establishing uniqueness of the the basket.
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Line 9, column 116, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...wered before establishing uniqueness of the the basket.
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Discourse Markers used:
['however', 'if', 'then', 'in conclusion']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.232704402516 0.25644967241 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.220125786164 0.15541462614 142% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0849056603774 0.0836205057962 102% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0220125786164 0.0520304965353 42% => Some adverbs wanted.
Pronouns: 0.0188679245283 0.0272364105082 69% => OK
Prepositions: 0.11320754717 0.125424944231 90% => OK
Participles: 0.0723270440252 0.0416121511921 174% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.56010987986 2.79052419416 92% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0408805031447 0.026700313972 153% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.110062893082 0.113004496875 97% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0345911949686 0.0255425247493 135% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00943396226415 0.0127820249294 74% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1729.0 2731.13054187 63% => OK
No of words: 295.0 446.07635468 66% => More words wanted.
Chars per words: 5.86101694915 6.12365571057 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.57801047555 91% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.332203389831 0.378187486979 88% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.196610169492 0.287650121315 68% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.115254237288 0.208842608468 55% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0881355932203 0.135150697306 65% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56010987986 2.79052419416 92% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 207.018472906 71% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501694915254 0.469332199767 107% => OK
Word variations: 49.6773586752 52.1807786196 95% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 20.039408867 70% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0714285714 23.2022227129 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 24.0874257992 57.7814097925 42% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.5 141.986410481 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0714285714 23.2022227129 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.285714285714 0.724660767414 39% => More Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 40.7324455206 51.9672348444 78% => OK
Elegance: 1.60240963855 1.8405768891 87% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.347336285964 0.441005458295 79% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.142151040802 0.135418324435 105% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0675703725952 0.0829849096947 81% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.632205647703 0.58762219726 108% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.149496710435 0.147661913831 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.158032685156 0.193483328276 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0604570120073 0.0970749176394 62% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.245387203066 0.42659136922 58% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0771836182952 0.0774707102158 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.221337751594 0.312017818177 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.025814980399 0.0698173142475 37% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.33743842365 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.87684729064 58% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.82512315271 166% => OK
Positive topic words: 1.0 6.46551724138 15% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 4.0 5.36822660099 75% => OK
Neutral topic words: 7.0 2.82389162562 248% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 14.657635468 82% => OK
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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