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 author’s conclusion that Woven baskets initially attributed to Palean people were not uniquely Palean seems convincing at the first glance. However, the argument fails to address the misgivings arises from the deep analysis of the evidences and the consequent conclusion and hence not a truly compelling argument.
Firstly, the author presents the evidence that the Brim river in between two ancient villages Lithos and Palean was broad and deep that it was impossible to cross without boat and such boat were not found near the Palean village. Even though it seems to serve the conclusion to be cogent, the assumption that author made upon this is fallacious. The author assumes that the only way to get through to the village Lithos is to cross the Brim river; however there may be a roundabout way to the village Lithos that could have allowed people to trade between two villages and such baskets might have been reached Lithos. So, further evidence is essential to increase the credibility of the argument.
Secondly, the author of the article believes that no evidences of palean boat guaranteed that there were no Palean boats in existence; however, through the passage of time such Palean boats might have been rotten or the flood in the Brim river might have washed them away. So, the author fails to provide necessary explanation to believe his conclusion.
Finally, the author himself states that woven baskets were first found in vicinity of Palean village and again he states that recently archaeologist found such basket in Lithos. Here, the author assumes that there were no activities between these two time periods. It is possible that a bridge might have been built in the Brim river, allowing villagers to engage in several activities of trade and cultural exchange. And as a result, such baskets might have made their way to the Lithos village.
In summation, as explained above, the assumptions in which the authors based his conclusions are wrong. Without further explanation and evidences, the argument cannot be truly convincing.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not exactly
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- not OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 338 350
No. of Characters: 1686 1500
No. of Different Words: 154 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.288 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.988 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.441 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 127 100
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: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.143 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.438 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.643 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.358 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.601 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.07 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 176, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... it was impossible to cross without boat and such boat were not found near the Pa...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, may, second, secondly, so, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1731.0 2260.96107784 77% => OK
No of words: 338.0 441.139720559 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12130177515 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28774723029 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54902046666 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.458579881657 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 536.4 705.55239521 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.7546594527 57.8364921388 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.642857143 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1428571429 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.70786347227 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
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: 0.245065385247 0.218282227539 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0781481143139 0.0743258471296 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.069619937491 0.0701772020484 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131863933563 0.128457276422 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0792164320729 0.0628817314937 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.3799401198 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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