1. 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 examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The given argument has many loose ends. it does not convey an idea to the fullest. The argument states that, twenty years ago, a particular observation was made by dr. field. In that observation, he noticed that children in tertia were reared by an entire village and not by their own biological parents. dr. karp states that the situation is reverse and that dr. field's conclusion is invalid. First of all, twenty years are a long time. Any kind of significant changes could have occurred during this period. For example, many years back, women were considered as a child-bearing machine, where today many of them can be seen as successful entrepreneurs. So, it is wrong to say that dr. field's observation is incorrect.
Secondly, there is a mention about dr. karp's interview with children in the group of islands including tertia. there is no specific evidence stating that more children were from tertia. The correct percentage could have given a true picture about the research conducted by dr. karp. With the given minute details, we cannot conclude that dr. karp's observations are valid.
Thirdly, dr. karp professes that the interview centered approach method of his team of graduate students will set up a much more correct understanding of child rearing traditions. But the strategies used are not mentioned clearly. Also, interview related questions are not answered in the given argument.
thus, to conclude, we can say that enough evidences are not provided to accept the argument as a whole. twenty years is quite a long time to make a competitive study, as many changes could have evolved. thus the argument can only be accepted in parts.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 276 350
No. of Characters: 1336 1500
No. of Different Words: 157 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.076 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.841 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.642 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 94 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 74 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 50 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 28 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.714 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.087 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.643 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.337 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.536 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.127 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...The given argument has many loose ends. it does not convey an idea to the fullest....
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Suggestion: Dr
...nd not by their own biological parents. dr. karp states that the situation is reve...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...at dr. fields observation is incorrect. Secondly, there is a mention about dr. k...
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Suggestion: There
... the group of islands including tertia. there is no specific evidence stating that mo...
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Suggestion:
... that dr. karps observations are valid. Thirdly, dr. karp professes that the int...
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...are not answered in the given argument. thus, to conclude, we can say that enoug...
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...ided to accept the argument as a whole. twenty years is quite a long time to make a co...
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...dy, as many changes could have evolved. thus the argument can only be accepted in pa...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: thus,
...dy, as many changes could have evolved. thus the argument can only be accepted in pa...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, for example, kind of, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 55.5748502994 50% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1388.0 2260.96107784 61% => OK
No of words: 276.0 441.139720559 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02898550725 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69047539386 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.586956521739 0.468620217663 125% => OK
syllable_count: 423.0 705.55239521 60% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 12.0 22.8473053892 53% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.2322716723 57.8364921388 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 60.347826087 119.503703932 50% => More chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 12.0 23.324526521 51% => More words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 4.34782608696 5.70786347227 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.67664670659 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.306364005976 0.218282227539 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0765075266633 0.0743258471296 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0619263987992 0.0701772020484 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156868783738 0.128457276422 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.113088011389 0.0628817314937 180% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.3 14.3799401198 58% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.76 48.3550499002 140% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.8 12.197005988 56% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 11.01 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 5.0 12.3882235529 40% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 6.8 11.1389221557 61% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.9071856287 59% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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