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 passage involves a lot of assumptions in concluding that the Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean.
First of all, if the woven baskets were found only in the immediate vicinity of Palea, there are two possibilities after that. One, they are only present near the village of Palea, since the people of Palea has come up with it's design and there is no other place where it can be found. Second, the exploration for the said basket was not conducted properly in other regions. The latter is evident when the passage talks about the disocovery of such a basket in another village, Lithos, which was not in the immediate vicinity of Palea.
Now, after this also there can be two more possibilities. One, the baskets were taken by the Palean people across the river. Second, there were some other people who knew how to make the baskets of the same design. Now the passage has ruled out the possibility of the first with just one naive observation that the only means i.e. boats through which the Paleans could have crossed the river and reached Lithos, were not found. There can be numerous possibilities that the boats were not found. Since, it is mentioned that the Brim river was deep and broad, there are huge chances that the wreckage of the boats went down to the bottom of the river and became unreachable to the discovery team. Also, there are chances that the boats or their wreckage might have gone with the flow of the river to some far off place. The only conclusion that there were never any boats, that's why no boats were found, is full of uncertainties.
However, in the scenario, where there were actually no boats with the Palean people, in order to cross the river, the discovery of woven baskets, possessing the similar distinctive characteristics like Palean baskets, certainly imposes serious questions on the saying that these woven baskets were uniquely Palean. In other words, there were other people as well who knew this craft.
Keeping in light the above mentioned assumptions, it can certainly not be concluded with conviction that the woven baskets found on the other side of the Brim river, were made by some other community and do not belong to the Palean people. There are significant possibilities that the Paleans must have travelled across the river and that's why those baskets were found there, hence making those woven boats uniquely Palean.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 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: 411 350
No. of Characters: 1933 1500
No. of Different Words: 174 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.503 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.703 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.323 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 106 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 74 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 44 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.176 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.195 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.588 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.387 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.584 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.128 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 872, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...lusion that there were never any boats, thats why no boats were found, is full of unc...
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Line 5, column 334, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...ust have travelled across the river and thats why those baskets were found there, hen...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, hence, however, if, second, so, well, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 16.3942115768 18% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1981.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 411.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8199513382 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39100092178 2.78398813304 86% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.459854014599 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 627.3 705.55239521 89% => OK
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: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.4334462648 57.8364921388 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.529411765 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1764705882 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.23529411765 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.272252216691 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0968574565082 0.0743258471296 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0672244604819 0.0701772020484 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166804238901 0.128457276422 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0390083386019 0.0628817314937 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.32 8.32208582834 88% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 98.500998004 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => 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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