Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia. Using an observation-centered approach to studying Tertian culture, he conclude ed from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather tha

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Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia. Using an observation-centered approach to studying Tertian culture, he conclude ed 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.

This statement claims future research on the subject should be conducted via the interview centered method. I have so many different opinions in this statement. There are some reasons in the following paragraphs.

First of all, this statement claims that the children spend much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village and get a result is that Dr. Field’s conclusion about Tertian village vulture must be invalid. Does they spend more time talking of their biological parents mean that they were raised by their biological parents? Maybe it ’s because they ’re strange with their biological parents that they talk more time. They might heard about their parents from others and like to talk about it.

Secondly, Are the questions set during the interview appropriate? If the questions used limit the range of the children’s talking, there will cannot ensure that the interview results will be reliable. Is the interviewee representative? It is an important point. It maybe because this interviewee is a special example and different with others.

In addition, Are the interviewees' answers true? The interviewee did not answer honestly for some reason. Obviously, it means the interview method also has disadvantages, They make interviewees have a vigilance feeling. Usually, if he does not trust you, in order to protect the people in their island, he will try lie to you.

Finally, Did you interview adults? It has not any information about it in the article. The adults might offer more accurate description. Adults express better than children. Adults and children may have different answers in the same question. Is the interview method better than the observation method? No data indicate this. during the interview, the client may lie, but the observation method will not, just need to spend more time.

To sum up, this article is not reliable, it still need to more evidences.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, honestly, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, in addition, talking about, talking of, first of all, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 55.5748502994 58% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1648.0 2260.96107784 73% => OK
No of words: 314.0 441.139720559 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24840764331 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20951839842 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74520999894 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.541401273885 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 496.8 705.55239521 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 4.96107784431 242% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 12.0 22.8473053892 53% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.5338363695 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 65.92 119.503703932 55% => More chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 12.56 23.324526521 54% => More words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 5.52 5.70786347227 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.0799776354536 0.218282227539 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0210243086625 0.0743258471296 28% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0293793432586 0.0701772020484 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0344534492953 0.128457276422 27% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0202962548319 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: 9.6 14.3799401198 67% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.3 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 12.197005988 66% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.28 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 6.8 11.1389221557 61% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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