The following appeared in an article written by Dr. Karp, an anthropologist.
"Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia and concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. However, my recent interviews with children living in the group of islands that includes Tertia show that these children spend much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. This research of mine proves that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture is invalid and thus that the observation-centered approach to studying cultures is invalid as well. The interview-centered method that my team of graduate students is currently using in Tertia will establish a much more accurate understanding of child-rearing traditions there and in other island cultures."
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.
In the prompt, Dr. Karp tries adjure the fact that children is Tertia island are reared by the parents and not by the elders of the village, he tried to prove his theory by inertviewing the people of the village, he inturn also concludes that obeservation based approach for study of such topics is invalid. He tries to establish the facts by comparing hist study to a twenty year old study. Though the following unstated assumptions if proved may weaken the arugements of the author.
The present study being done and the study done now are twenty years apart, and a lot can happen in twenty years. It may be that twenty years ago the children of the island were reared by the entire village and due to certain incidents the tradation has changed : maybe in the past some children being raised by the village elders were shunned as tabboo or evil spirits and discared, making the parents furious and not following the tradition anymore. So, the previous study cannot be disproved without knowing the correct facts. The present study is the averagre of the islands, it maybe that Tertia has a very small population and the answers of the people from it were overshadowed by bigger populated islands, so a clear picture cannot be drawn whether children are still reared by the village people or only the parents. Which again isn't sufficient to prove that the previous sutdy was fallacious.
If a certain fact is disproved, it is not sufficient enough to conclude that the method used for that study is also redudant. Similiarly, it cannot be stated by Dr. Karp that observation center apporach is invalid, for instance, Dr. Field may have observed the incorrect village thinking it was Tertian and concluded his study or maybe he didn't observe the village for the right amount of time and left early making his colclusions imcomplete. This only makes the study fallacious not the method of study. Dr. Karp says that interview centred method can be more affective, but it can also backfire, if the people interviewing cannot be communicated with, generally people from remote islands do not know the language they are interviewd in. It can be the same case in the group of islands, making his current reseach findings questionable.
For the following assumptions the unstated asuumption, if proved correct severly weaken the claims of the author making the arguement fall flat. So, it cannot be conclued that the study of Dr. Field twenty years ago is completely incorrect, maybe it is not completely accurate but it surely has some merit.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 27 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 435 350
No. of Characters: 2066 1500
No. of Different Words: 196 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.567 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.749 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.477 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 156 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 101 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.821 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.353 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.534 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.082 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 827, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Which” 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.
...the village people or only the parents. Which again isnt sufficient to prove that the...
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Line 3, column 839, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...people or only the parents. Which again isnt sufficient to prove that the previous s...
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Line 5, column 340, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...ian and concluded his study or maybe he didnt observe the village for the right amoun...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, still, for instance, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 55.5748502994 67% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2113.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 433.0 441.139720559 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87990762125 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56165014514 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5490713742 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.466512702079 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 651.6 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 97.3522812607 57.8364921388 168% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.866666667 119.503703932 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.8666666667 23.324526521 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.46666666667 5.70786347227 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211523224967 0.218282227539 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.064385750553 0.0743258471296 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0601776578756 0.0701772020484 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131845982853 0.128457276422 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0201843611125 0.0628817314937 32% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 14.3799401198 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 48.3550499002 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.62 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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