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.
Woven baskets or in general baskets are used to carry things required in homes. Each one have their unique way a weaving clothes and so the same can be applied to baskets. The statements made here are not so convincing are based on several assumptions and considerations that cannot be compare recent and ancient activities.
The very first assumption that is made here is that just because a single basket was found in Lithos the baskets are not unique to Paleans. This is absolutely faulty assumption. That basket found in lithos could have been brought over from Palea during ancient time by someone maybe relatives or for trade purpose. Therefore if there is clear evidence available that more such baskets also found in the immediate vicinity of Lithos then this supports the argument.
Another assumption that is made here is that two villages are separated by a deep and broad river. The Brim river that the archeologist are mentioning is from the recent time so there can be possibility that during prehistoric period no such river existed. The river would have formed by certain environmental changes over a period of time. Hence the distance between Palea and Lithos could be covered on foot rather than by boat. Thus if archeologist can provide clear details about really a river flowed then there is possibility that the Palean baskets may not be unique.
One more flawed consideration is as, as the river is deep and broad and could only be crossed by boat. So as there were no boats found, no one from palea crossed over to Lithos and same vice-versa. This is completely flawed assumption. This also given extra weight to the previous point that no river existed during prehistoric period. Thus people would have travelled on foot from one village to another for trade, religious activities and some other functions. And Paleans could have left one piece of basket in Lithos which was found by archealogist.
The above considerations and its related analysis indicate that the woven baskets with a distinctive pattern can be unique to Paleans. If the recommendations or clarity about the points discussed above are provided then the given argument stays valid
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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: 20 15
No. of Words: 365 350
No. of Characters: 1783 1500
No. of Different Words: 176 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.371 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.885 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.574 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 120 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 85 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 47 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.691 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.3 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.521 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.049 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 316, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...e maybe relatives or for trade purpose. Therefore if there is clear evidence available th...
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Line 9, column 326, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...by certain environmental changes over a period of time. Hence the distance between Palea and L...
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Line 9, column 342, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...onmental changes over a period of time. Hence the distance between Palea and Lithos c...
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Line 9, column 432, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...be covered on foot rather than by boat. Thus if archeologist can provide clear detai...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, if, may, really, so, then, therefore, thus, in general
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1832.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 365.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01917808219 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37092360658 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63012271686 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.487671232877 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 588.6 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => 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: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.8873132603 57.8364921388 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 91.6 119.503703932 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.25 23.324526521 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.7 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => 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: 11.0 4.67664670659 235% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21737043642 0.218282227539 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.061465612396 0.0743258471296 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0452571657305 0.0701772020484 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114431505083 0.128457276422 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0490639096596 0.0628817314937 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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