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 given argument suggests that the baskets found in ancient village of Palea were not unique to Palean people as it were also found in Lithos which was across Brim River. The argument makes assumptions that the state of Brim River was same at prehistoric times as it is now, along with how as archaeologists did not find any Palean boats implies that Paleans did not have any boats.
Regarding the assumption about Brim River, it can't be said with surety that Brim River was deep and broad during prehistoric time when Palean and Lithos village existed. Some geographical phenomenon can contribute to formation of new river as Brim River or broadening and deepening of the already existing shallow stream of water. If the evidence suggests that Brim River was a shallow stream and some geographic or geomorphic event made it deep and broad, it could have been crossed without the help of boats. People from Palea could have crossed the river easily, hence suggesting that people living in Lithos also had people from Palea. Hence, finding Palean baskets in Lithos would not refute that Palean baskets are unique to Palean people. Evidence needed to evaluate the claim that Palean baskets are not unique to Palea should suggest that Brim River was deep and broad even during prehistoric times when Palean and Lithos villages existed.
The argument uses absence of any Palean boats and presence of deep and broad river between Palea and Lithos to justify that Palean people and Lithos people had no contact. Further, this implies that migration of artform "Palean baskets" didn't occur through Palean people to Lithos people, but Lithos people developed it on their own. This can be erroneous because the argument talks about no Palean boats, but Lithos people could have had boats. Also, boats made by Palean people could deteriorate with time. Evidence is needed to provide where it indicates that neither Palean nor Lithos people knew art of boat making and they had no contact with each other which would help disseminate art form thought of as unique to Palean people.
It can be concluded that the argument holds true for most of the part, however some specific evidences are needed to mark the entire argument as true.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- minimum 3 arguments wanted.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 377 350
No. of Characters: 1822 1500
No. of Different Words: 165 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.406 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.833 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.203 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 135 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 74 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 40 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 24 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.929 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.887 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.643 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.452 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.632 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.202 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 47, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...ing the assumption about Brim River, it cant be said with surety that Brim River was...
^^^^
Line 3, column 47, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'cants'?
Suggestion: cants
...ing the assumption about Brim River, it cant be said with surety that Brim River was...
^^^^
Line 5, column 248, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...n of artform 'Palean baskets' didnt occur through Palean people to Lithos p...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, regarding, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1870.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 376.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97340425532 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.28458530451 2.78398813304 82% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.452127659574 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 574.2 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.9297004843 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.571428571 119.503703932 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.8571428571 23.324526521 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.14285714286 5.70786347227 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160318571917 0.218282227539 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0740385742185 0.0743258471296 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0459320832184 0.0701772020484 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0997863428097 0.128457276422 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0628936360241 0.0628817314937 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.3799401198 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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