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.

While it may be true that the uniquely patterned woven baskets did not originally belong to the village of palea,this author's argument does not make a cogent case for the distinctively patterned basket's false and perhaps undiscovered origin. It is easy to understand why the baskets might not be the creation of residents of palea , but the argument is rife with holes and assumptions, and thus not strong enough to state that the uniquely woven baskets were discovered by the Lithos or some other ancient people.

The author states that the archaeological survey has reported a similar so called "palean" basket in Lithos, which was an ancient village across the Brim river from palea. The author however assumes that the river was always there. For instance, the river could have been formed in the later years due to ecological and environmental changes in the temperature, atmosphere and soil. The river's formation and origin has however not been surveyed by the archaeologists yet. Unless the archaeological survey is fully representative,reliable and valid, we just do not know.

Additionally, the author implies that due to absence of any palean boats across the brim river, it is possible that the woven baskets were not originally a unique creation of the palean people. While due to no boats being found, a concrete connection between the palean baskets and the Lithos accessibilities is not effectively made. It can be inferred from the above assumption that the access to boats by Lithos people could have resulted in trading or stealing of the baskets or the pattern, respectively, from Palea. To strengthen his/her argument, the author needs to state a normed survey of Lithos accessibilities and the connections between the two villages.

Building upon the implications that Palean people might not have access to boats, and so the baskets are not the creation of only the Palean people. for example, what if the evidence of the palean people owning boats has been washed off or no longer existing. The author does not mention a proper detailed and proven survey of the inaccessibility of boats by Palean people.

Thus a proper and detailed survey of the various assumptions inferred from the author's argument can result in the proven origin of the distinctively woven baskets as not by the Palean people but by someothers. Hence, it is futile to base an arguments'possibility on fallacious reasoning and assumptions.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'while', 'for example', 'for instance']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.232346241458 0.25644967241 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.129840546697 0.15541462614 84% => OK
Adjectives: 0.111617312073 0.0836205057962 133% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0820045558087 0.0520304965353 158% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0136674259681 0.0272364105082 50% => OK
Prepositions: 0.113895216401 0.125424944231 91% => OK
Participles: 0.0364464692483 0.0416121511921 88% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.12446401205 2.79052419416 112% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0250569476082 0.026700313972 94% => OK
Particles: 0.00227790432802 0.001811407834 126% => OK
Determiners: 0.132118451025 0.113004496875 117% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0159453302961 0.0255425247493 62% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00911161731207 0.0127820249294 71% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2450.0 2731.13054187 90% => OK
No of words: 399.0 446.07635468 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.14035087719 6.12365571057 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46933824581 4.57801047555 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.406015037594 0.378187486979 107% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.250626566416 0.287650121315 87% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.16290726817 0.208842608468 78% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.107769423559 0.135150697306 80% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12446401205 2.79052419416 112% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 207.018472906 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.458646616541 0.469332199767 98% => OK
Word variations: 48.9485665869 52.1807786196 94% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 20.039408867 80% => OK
Sentence length: 24.9375 23.2022227129 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.951596773 57.7814097925 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 153.125 141.986410481 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9375 23.2022227129 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.6875 0.724660767414 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 3.58251231527 195% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 50.0001566416 51.9672348444 96% => OK
Elegance: 1.69696969697 1.8405768891 92% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.492244622575 0.441005458295 112% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.173835626038 0.135418324435 128% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.102984492134 0.0829849096947 124% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.672554644611 0.58762219726 114% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.136615441045 0.147661913831 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.237043237814 0.193483328276 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0898067084365 0.0970749176394 93% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.513282946998 0.42659136922 120% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.081943296831 0.0774707102158 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.359348708092 0.312017818177 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0385678059889 0.0698173142475 55% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.33743842365 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.87684729064 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.82512315271 124% => OK
Positive topic words: 1.0 6.46551724138 15% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 8.0 5.36822660099 149% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.82389162562 142% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 14.657635468 89% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 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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