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 determines that a basket characterized by a distinctive pattern, historically thought of as a basket unique to the Palean people, must not be as unique to their cutlure as initially believed. The passage delineates certain evidence that the author believes to be strong enough to support his assertion. However, there are evidentiary gaps that need to be filled before his argument can be asserted as true.
First, the author makes the assertion that a recent discovery of the basket in question was made by archeologists in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea, citing this discovery as evidence that people other than the Paleans made these baskets. What he fails to recognize is that because the basket was found in the ancient “Lithos”, does not necessarily mean that it was not a Palean-made basket. It is highly likely that the basket was lost to the river and resurfaced in Lithos where the archeologists discovered it. Additionally, it is likely that the basket floated across the river where the people from Lithos found it and replicated it, rendering it, still, a uniquely Palean basket.
Secondly, the author notes that the Brim River seperating Palea and Lithos was so deep and broad that the Palean people would have only been able to cross it by boat, noting te impossibility of that feat since not Palaen boats have been found. However, the fact that no boats have been found does not mean that there were none in existence that the Paleans could have been utilizing to cross the river. Futhermore, The Brim River is put forth as being deep and wide in the present, but the passage does not indicate the condition of the river in ancient times. It could have been possible that the river was more narrow or more shallow in ancient times, enabling the Palean people to cross it without the use of a boat, explaining the presence of the basket in Lithos.
Moreover, the passage does not mention anything about the inventions or travel abilities of the people from ancient Lithos, the pasage only mentions that there have been no “Palean boats” found. If it is true that the Brim River was too deep and too wide to only be crossed by boat and the the Paleans, in fact, did not have access to boats, we cannot say whether the people of Lithos had boats that could be used to cross the Brim River. If this were true, the people from Lithos could possibly cross the river to trade with the Paleans and could have acquired one or many of these baskets, which would weaken the argument that the baskets are not “uniquely Palean”.
The arguement that the author provides to disupte the uniquness of the “so-called Palean baskets” is filled with fallacies. It is clear to see that there are many possible alternative explanations to the evidence that the author provides to support his claim. The Palean baskets could have been discovered in Lithos for a number of reasons that do not provide factual claim to the authors conclusion. The evidentiary gaps that needed to be filled to deem the author’s claim as true, leave room for too many questions and alternative explanations to convince the reader of his assertion.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...too wide to only be crossed by boat and the the Paleans, in fact, did not have access t...
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Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...too wide to only be crossed by boat and the the Paleans, in fact, did not have access t...
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Message: Use simply 'could'.
Suggestion: could
... this were true, the people from Lithos could possibly cross the river to trade with the Palea...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...hat do not provide factual claim to the authors conclusion. The evidentiary gaps that n...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'still', 'as to', 'in fact', 'it is true']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.22632423756 0.25644967241 88% => OK
Verbs: 0.181380417335 0.15541462614 117% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0738362760835 0.0836205057962 88% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0545746388443 0.0520304965353 105% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0304975922953 0.0272364105082 112% => OK
Prepositions: 0.118780096308 0.125424944231 95% => OK
Participles: 0.0545746388443 0.0416121511921 131% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.6816449867 2.79052419416 96% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0353130016051 0.026700313972 132% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.120385232745 0.113004496875 107% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0176565008026 0.0255425247493 69% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0128410914928 0.0127820249294 100% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3236.0 2731.13054187 118% => OK
No of words: 550.0 446.07635468 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.88363636364 6.12365571057 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84273464058 4.57801047555 106% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.341818181818 0.378187486979 90% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.216363636364 0.287650121315 75% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.147272727273 0.208842608468 71% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0963636363636 0.135150697306 71% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6816449867 2.79052419416 96% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 207.018472906 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.409090909091 0.469332199767 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 47.6302651617 52.1807786196 91% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.039408867 90% => OK
Sentence length: 30.5555555556 23.2022227129 132% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.8544386196 57.7814097925 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 179.777777778 141.986410481 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.5555555556 23.2022227129 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.666666666667 0.724660767414 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 3.58251231527 112% => OK
Readability: 52.1919191919 51.9672348444 100% => OK
Elegance: 1.5 1.8405768891 81% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.447003932593 0.441005458295 101% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.238123933084 0.135418324435 176% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.100403106776 0.0829849096947 121% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.716070187578 0.58762219726 122% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0738995479228 0.147661913831 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.230928426139 0.193483328276 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0848462646918 0.0970749176394 87% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.569693922787 0.42659136922 134% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.146475277224 0.0774707102158 189% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.325882351998 0.312017818177 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0758491091963 0.0698173142475 109% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.33743842365 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.87684729064 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.82512315271 145% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 5.36822660099 56% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.82389162562 212% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 14.657635468 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 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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