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 rat

This passage claims that some anthropologists recommend that to obtain accurate information on Tertian child-rearing practices, future research on the subject should be conducted via the interview-centered method. This reasoning has several flaws and, therefore, is not convincing. The logic of argument is compromised because the author uses incorrect generalization in the passage and assumes that all things remains unchanging over time.

First off all, when the author concludes that results are unreliable author assumes that the situation has not changed over 20 years. However, the upbringi...

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 414, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... strengthen the author's argument. Finally, the author doesnt make a strong...
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Suggestion: doesn't
...s;s argument. Finally, the author doesnt make a strong correlation between two m...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...apos;s reasoning is, therefore, doubtful and hardly convincing.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, so, then, therefore, in conclusion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 28.8173652695 42% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 55.5748502994 50% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1494.0 2260.96107784 66% => OK
No of words: 257.0 441.139720559 58% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.81322957198 5.12650576532 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.56307096286 88% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.19353102433 2.78398813304 115% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 204.123752495 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.560311284047 0.468620217663 120% => OK
syllable_count: 446.4 705.55239521 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.1061291796 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.923076923 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7692307692 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.23076923077 5.70786347227 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
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 : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0838146083379 0.218282227539 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0289715020735 0.0743258471296 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0389273355805 0.0701772020484 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0447353785868 0.128457276422 35% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0460138403457 0.0628817314937 73% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.3799401198 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.42 12.5979740519 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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argument 1 -- OK

argument 2 -- OK

argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 258 350
No. of Characters: 1437 1500
No. of Different Words: 139 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.008 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.57 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.055 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 125 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 93 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 43 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.846 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.284 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.352 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.631 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.083 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5