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 following argument is flawed for numerous reasons. Although the baskets were found in the immediate vicinity of Palea it does not mean it was made by the Palean people. Moreover, the assumption that because a boat was not found the Palean people were unable to cross the Brim River is incorrect.
The assumption that any items that are found close to Palea that it must have been made by the Palean people assumes that there is no other way that the basket could have come from anywhere else. It could be very likely that the Palean people traded with other nearby villages in exchange of items like the basket. If that were true then the basket could have originated from a nearby village and have never been made by Palean people.
A trade route would also discredit the assumption that because a basket was found in Lithos, the Palean people had to have crossed the Brim River. If a complex trade route were established among multiple neighboring villages, then the basket could have originated from a village that were accessible to both villages without crossing the Brim River.
Lastly, just because a boat was not found does not eliminate the possibility that the Palean people had the ability to cross the Brim River. The ancient village would have used materials that were available to the ancient world. Many of these materials would include plant materials like wood and rope or animal products like leather and fat --- all these biological materials are susceptible to degradation over time. This would make it very difficult for a modern archaeologist to discover and be able to distinguish the remains of an ancient boat.
Because of these flawed assumptions, the writer's argument that the Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean is questionable.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 56, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Although” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...rgument is flawed for numerous reasons. Although the baskets were found in the immediate...
^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... to cross the Brim River is incorrect. The assumption that any items that are f...
^^^^
Line 9, column 43, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
...ecause of these flawed assumptions, the writers argument that the Palean baskets were n...
^^^^^^^
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'if', 'lastly', 'moreover', 'so', 'then']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.232704402516 0.25644967241 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.194968553459 0.15541462614 125% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0943396226415 0.0836205057962 113% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0503144654088 0.0520304965353 97% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0157232704403 0.0272364105082 58% => OK
Prepositions: 0.122641509434 0.125424944231 98% => OK
Participles: 0.062893081761 0.0416121511921 151% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.43535679951 2.79052419416 87% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0283018867925 0.026700313972 106% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.138364779874 0.113004496875 122% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0283018867925 0.0255425247493 111% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00943396226415 0.0127820249294 74% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1780.0 2731.13054187 65% => OK
No of words: 299.0 446.07635468 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.95317725753 6.12365571057 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.57801047555 91% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.33779264214 0.378187486979 89% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.234113712375 0.287650121315 81% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.147157190635 0.208842608468 70% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0969899665552 0.135150697306 72% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43535679951 2.79052419416 87% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 207.018472906 66% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.454849498328 0.469332199767 97% => OK
Word variations: 44.0371904557 52.1807786196 84% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 20.039408867 65% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.2022227129 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.2212814228 57.7814097925 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.923076923 141.986410481 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 23.2022227129 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.461538461538 0.724660767414 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 46.4113712375 51.9672348444 89% => OK
Elegance: 1.60240963855 1.8405768891 87% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.427773000894 0.441005458295 97% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.175815706485 0.135418324435 130% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0818360741089 0.0829849096947 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.681138703368 0.58762219726 116% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.157745308686 0.147661913831 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.211866833153 0.193483328276 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0915038940615 0.0970749176394 94% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.371866935545 0.42659136922 87% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0712821631566 0.0774707102158 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.288339085534 0.312017818177 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0585242096216 0.0698173142475 84% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.33743842365 48% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.87684729064 58% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.82512315271 104% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 6.46551724138 62% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 5.36822660099 75% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.82389162562 142% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 14.657635468 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
---------------------
More content wanted. For issue essays, around 450 words, for argument essays, around 400 words.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
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.
---------------------
Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.