Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia. Using an observation-centered approach to studying Tertian culture, he concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. Recently another anthropologist, Dr. Karp, visited the group of islands that includes Tertia and used the interview-centered method to study child-rearing practices. In the interviews that Dr. Karp conducted with children living in this group of islands, the children spent much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. Dr. Karp decided that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture must be invalid. 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.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
Anthropologist studies are vital to understanding cultures. To study cultures there are many different formats from general observation, to interviews, surveys, and participant observation. Anthropology is a large field, some big subfields include language, economy, and kinship. Both Dr. Field and Dr. Karp choose to study kinship in the Tertian culture, but the conclusions they both drew were uniquely different. Dr. Field noted that the children in the Tertian village appeared to be reared by the whole village rather than the biological parents. This could mean that the children of Tertian were molded and shaped by each person they met and heavily impacted by the culture as a whole. However, Dr. Karp used a different method through interviews and claimed that the children of Tertian were mainly reared by their biological parents.
While both anthropologists spent lots of time studying the Tertian village culture, Dr. Field’s observation may have been limited to what he was viewing outside of the individual homes. An important question to be discussed may be how much time children spend in the home versus outside in the community. By answering this question, it is possible to have more clarity on where children may pick up their habits and behaviors, especially because children interact with many different people throughout the day, such as their own biological parents, but teachers, friends, religious leaders, doctors. Something to notice is Dr. Karp drew his conclusions based on how much the children of Tertian talked about their biological parents versus the entire village. It may be necessary to ask the questions very directly about who the children look up to and why. This gives children the opportunity in an interview to talk about who raised them and why they are who they are. Dr. Karp also focused on asking children the questions, whereas it is important to ask the opinions of adults too. The adults may have different views when raising their children.
It is possible that both anthropologists could have tackled the kinship and family/community ties by both interviewing and observing the village. With that being said there are many questions to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based on are reasonable such as how much time the children spend in home versus the community. Who the children look up to and how the adults raise the children of the village. There are many other questions that could be asked to understand whether the argument is reasonable, but that would be up to future anthropologists.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 426 350
No. of Characters: 2141 1500
No. of Different Words: 193 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.543 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.026 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.724 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 155 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 130 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 82 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.421 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.869 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.579 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.344 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.474 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.131 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, may, so, whereas, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => 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: 2194.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 425.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16235294118 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87660314864 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.472941176471 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 666.9 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.0225337873 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.473684211 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3684210526 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.26315789474 5.70786347227 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.15768463074 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.67664670659 235% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.22903730796 0.218282227539 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0762087972732 0.0743258471296 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0653699538146 0.0701772020484 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15501940174 0.128457276422 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0826633095605 0.0628817314937 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 98.500998004 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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