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.
Archaeologists have discovered Palean baskets (woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern) in Lithos which is situated across the Brim River from Palea. As Brim River is deep and broad and no Palean boats have been found author has concluded that these baskets are not unique to Palea and could have been formed by other people too. Three evidence needs to be discussed before evaluating the argument any further.
First of all, evidence for any other route from Paleas to Lithos.In the argument the author assumes that there is only one way from Paleas to Lithos and that is through the Brim River. If there exists another route from Palea to Lithos, for instance via a third village, then authors assumption will be refuted and the evidence proving the existence of any such route will weaken the authors argument.
Secondly, evidence of means other than Palean boats by which Palean people could have crossed the Brim River. The author, in the given argument, concludes that since there are no Palean boats available no Palean people could have crossed the Brim River and reached Lithos. The author does not consider the possibility where Paleans could have reached Lithos by any other means. For example, there can be a case where some Lithos people visited Palea using their own boats via Brim River and while returning brought some of the Palean people along with them to Lithos. Evidence for such scenarios could prove the authors conclusion to be wrong and thus can weaken the argument.
Thirdly, evidence that Palean baskets reached Lithos without Palean people themselves travelling? For example, if some evidence proves that Lithos people carried Palean baskets along with them from their visit to Palea then author assumptions will no longer hold true and the evidence would weaken the argument.
If any of the above mentioned evidence can be found then the basis on which the author made the assumption for woven baskets not being unique to Palean will become weaken.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
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: 13 15
No. of Words: 333 350
No. of Characters: 1641 1500
No. of Different Words: 140 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.272 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.928 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.195 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 119 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 70 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 40 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 21 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.615 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.854 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.447 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.447 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.186 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: In
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...route from Palea to Lithos, for instance via a third village, then authors assump...
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Line 2, column 385, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...tence of any such route will weaken the authors argument. Secondly, evidence of means ...
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Suggestion: some
... Brim River and while returning brought some of the Palean people along with them to Lithos...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... Evidence for such scenarios could prove the authors conclusion to be wrong and t...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...nce for such scenarios could prove the authors conclusion to be wrong and thus can wea...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, while, as to, for example, for instance, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 28.8173652695 42% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1674.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 332.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0421686747 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.26015233469 2.78398813304 81% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 204.123752495 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.436746987952 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 521.1 705.55239521 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.8027894313 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.769230769 119.503703932 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5384615385 23.324526521 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.76923076923 5.70786347227 154% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.179917202325 0.218282227539 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0861242572071 0.0743258471296 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0811409008573 0.0701772020484 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123393638546 0.128457276422 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0931570935018 0.0628817314937 148% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 98.500998004 65% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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