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, archa

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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.

Author argument that Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean because a "Palean" basket was discovered by archaeologists in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea is flawed. In the argument, the author propounds a strong conclusion where the evidence provided is not cogent and sufficient.

First, the author did not provide any evidence of finding more Palean baskets in Lithos. Due to this, it cannot be inferred that "Palean" baskets were also woven in Lithos. The author assumes that, since no Palean boats have been found, Palean boats did not exist. But, if no Palean boats have been found doesn't meant Palean that boat did not exist, but it can also be inferred that they are yet to be discovered.

Second, the author did not provide any evidence stating that the "Palean" basket could not float over water. It can be assumed that the "Palean" basket discovered by archaeologists could have floated its way across the Brim River from Palean to Lithos. Third, the author doesn't provide any evidence stating that the Lithos did not have boats. Due to this, it can be implied that a villager of Lithos could have visited their neighbouring village ( Palea ) and could have brought that "Palean" basket along while going back to Lithos.

The evidence stating that Palean basket connot float, more “Palean” baskets were found in areas other than palea and it vicinity and that Lithos also did not have boats could have made the argument stronger and cogent. As it stand, the argument is flawed for the reason indicated.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...But, if no Palean boats have been found doesnt meant Palean that boat did not exist, b...
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...rom Palean to Lithos. Third, the author doesnt provide any evidence stating that the L...
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...have visited their neighbouring village ( Palea ) and could have brought that Pale...
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...sited their neighbouring village ( Palea ) and could have brought that Palean bask...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'third', 'while']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.260416666667 0.25644967241 102% => OK
Verbs: 0.215277777778 0.15541462614 139% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0555555555556 0.0836205057962 66% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0555555555556 0.0520304965353 107% => OK
Pronouns: 0.03125 0.0272364105082 115% => OK
Prepositions: 0.118055555556 0.125424944231 94% => OK
Participles: 0.0833333333333 0.0416121511921 200% => Less participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.29269888004 2.79052419416 82% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0173611111111 0.026700313972 65% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.09375 0.113004496875 83% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.03125 0.0255425247493 122% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00347222222222 0.0127820249294 27% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1544.0 2731.13054187 57% => OK
No of words: 262.0 446.07635468 59% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.89312977099 6.12365571057 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02323427807 4.57801047555 88% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.393129770992 0.378187486979 104% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.213740458015 0.287650121315 74% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.103053435115 0.208842608468 49% => More words length more than 7 chars wanted.
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0458015267176 0.135150697306 34% => More words length more than 8 chars wanted.
Word Length SD: 2.29269888004 2.79052419416 82% => OK
Unique words: 118.0 207.018472906 57% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.450381679389 0.469332199767 96% => OK
Word variations: 41.5938507831 52.1807786196 80% => OK
How many sentences: 12.0 20.039408867 60% => OK
Sentence length: 21.8333333333 23.2022227129 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.7655245936 57.7814097925 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.666666667 141.986410481 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8333333333 23.2022227129 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.666666666667 0.724660767414 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 3.58251231527 112% => OK
Readability: 43.2073791349 51.9672348444 83% => OK
Elegance: 1.52873563218 1.8405768891 83% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.322517244898 0.441005458295 73% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.183583563377 0.135418324435 136% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.091736807221 0.0829849096947 111% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.641135333412 0.58762219726 109% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.118965849314 0.147661913831 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.166243860736 0.193483328276 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0469381954845 0.0970749176394 48% => The sentences are too close to each other.
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.429283670304 0.42659136922 101% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0831416881805 0.0774707102158 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.245632007922 0.312017818177 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0259593581723 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: 6.0 4.82512315271 124% => OK
Positive topic words: 2.0 6.46551724138 31% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 5.36822660099 75% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.82389162562 212% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 14.657635468 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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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