Until now, the distinctive patterned baskets were thought to exist only in Palea. Recently, archaeologists found a Palean basket in the city of Lithos. Now, there exists Brim river between these two cities. No evidence of boats till now and the river being deep and broad, the archaeologists have concluded that the baskets were indeed not unique to Palea.
Express your views on the author's argument and conclusions by discussing its flaws and/or merits.
In the passage, It is conclued that the Palean baskets' are not unique and this conclusion is drawn from some assumptions. According to the passage, the Palean Buskets were found in Lithos which was situated across a river from Palea but there was no sign of Palean boats found in lithos. It also assumes that there was no other way of transportation from Palea to Litho other than the river. Even if these assumptions makes a point at first glance, these assumptions need to analyzed by skeptical eyes and the gaps in those assumptions should be taken into consideration.
Firsly, archaeologists did not find any Palean boats in Lithos, but did they find in Palea any boat which was made in Lithos? There was no evidence on this case. The people from Litho might make boats and sell it to the Palean people or they might have taken the boat crossing as their profession, so Palean people might have travelled to lithos by the boats made by people of Litho. So, this assumption is nullified in this case.
Secondly, there might have been other way to travel Litho from Palea, it could be a long way through some mountains or might cover a long area but people did travel in that way. There was another possibility of having ancient expert swimmers who can actually cross the river even if it was deep and broad. We do not know much about the technique of ancient people, for instance, the technique which was used to make pyramid. But they did it and the evidence is right in there. So, it can not be said that there was no ancient technique to cross the river.
Finally, time changes even geographic maps. The way of flowing rivers change by time though natural calamities. For example, there is a possibility of a huge earthquack which might have changed the Brim river flow direction. May be there was no river in the place where Brim river is situated now.
In sum, the passage makes a potential argument about the origin of Palean Buskets, but the assumption behind the argument should be seri
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 356 350
No. of Characters: 1605 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.344 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.508 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.345 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 91 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 58 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 39 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 26 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.778 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.295 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.833 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.301 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.533 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.049 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1653.0 2260.96107784 73% => OK
No of words: 356.0 441.139720559 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.64325842697 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42491720614 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.460674157303 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 509.4 705.55239521 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.6565103518 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.8333333333 119.503703932 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7777777778 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.16666666667 5.70786347227 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.187431072453 0.218282227539 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0650616062145 0.0743258471296 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0636834453293 0.0701772020484 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101294233743 0.128457276422 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0615379447981 0.0628817314937 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 14.3799401198 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 48.3550499002 143% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 12.197005988 68% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.63 12.5979740519 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.46 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 98.500998004 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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