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.
The argument states that the so-called Palean baskets were not unique to Palea only because they have been discovered in another village across the river. However, there could be multiple other reasons as to why these baskets might have been found in Lithos.
Even though no evidence of boats for transportation across the Brim river have been found, it is possible that any remains of the mode of transportation have been eradicated over time. It would also make more sense for the archeologists to perform a thorough research on any evidences of boat decks or ancient drawings and sketches of bo...
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK. better to say: maybe people in Lithos have boats.
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- not exactly
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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: 17 15
No. of Words: 409 350
No. of Characters: 1936 1500
No. of Different Words: 200 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.497 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.733 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.486 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 124 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 91 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.059 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.987 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.529 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.356 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.568 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.089 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 249, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'thorough research'.
Suggestion: thorough research
... sense for the archeologists to perform a thorough research on any evidences of boat decks or ancie...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...alean basket pattern not so unique. Also the mention of the Brim doesnt throw mu...
^^^^
Line 5, column 30, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...nique. Also the mention of the Brim doesnt throw much light on how long the river ...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 227, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Further,
...naccessible due to the passage of time. Further studies can be made on the other modes ...
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Line 7, column 409, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: haven't
...we can easily conclude that the baskets havent reached Lithos from Palea - given the n...
^^^^^^
Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
... - given the nonexistence of boats. Therefore multiple such tests, studies, and resea...
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Line 9, column 216, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: there's
...he baskets - most of which suggest that theres an ample amount of chance for the baske...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, so, then, therefore, well, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1982.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 407.0 441.139720559 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86977886978 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49157444576 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52746484143 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.511056511057 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 613.8 705.55239521 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.5089545832 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.588235294 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9411764706 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.70786347227 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.277559416141 0.218282227539 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0945966665041 0.0743258471296 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0771720714942 0.0701772020484 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173145450003 0.128457276422 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0895207314197 0.0628817314937 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.