Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently, however, arch

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Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently, however, archaeologists discovered such a "Palean" basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea. The Brim River is very deep and broad, and so the ancient Paleans could have crossed it only by boat, and no Palean boats have been found. Thus it follows that the so-called Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean.

Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.

One cannot assume that despite baskets were found only around Palea, these artifacts should be, therefore, particular to Palean people. The Palean neighborhood could have specialized in the production of such baskets as well. The knowledge to produce them could have been shared between close communities or taught by Palean people to civilizations nearby.

On the other hand, the fact that the river is deep cannot serve as proof that Palean people were not the only ones to have the skills necessary to make up the baskets. It is not mentioned in the passage if the river was always deep. Maybe its current profundity does not reflect its old one. If in the past the water reached a lower level or even, if there was no river at all in that region, it would be very plausible to assume that Palean people could have walked to regions in the proximity.

Even assuming the existance of the river with the stated profundity in Palean era, boats used by Palean people could have been destroyed along the years. The remains could have been spread out in such a way that it would not have been possible to track their existance. For that reason, one cannot assume either that Palean baskets were not particular to that people by this argument.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, may, so, therefore, well, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 11.1786427146 18% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 55.5748502994 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1029.0 2260.96107784 46% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 217.0 441.139720559 49% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.74193548387 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8380880478 4.56307096286 84% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32708399636 2.78398813304 84% => OK
Unique words: 119.0 204.123752495 58% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.548387096774 0.468620217663 117% => OK
syllable_count: 322.2 705.55239521 46% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.9366975908 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.9 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.7 5.70786347227 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.15768463074 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.272925346584 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112601783873 0.0743258471296 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.071626397083 0.0701772020484 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.207236446563 0.128457276422 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0795959821569 0.0628817314937 127% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.21 12.5979740519 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 98.500998004 44% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.

Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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