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 coiuld 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?
While this argument cited the discovery of so-called Palean basket, this author's argument does not make a cogent case for the basket's origin from Palea or Lithos. This argument is rife with holes and assumptions, and thus, not strong enough to draw a conclusion that the basket was not uniquely Palean.
First of all, the argument believed that the basket is related to the Palean people without providing evidences to prove that the Palean people first made that type of baskets. If the basket was found in the their village, it doesn't prove that the basket was related to them only. To strengthen the argument, the author could have provided the strong proof which can show the patterns of making the baskets in the discovery of Palea village.
Additionally, the author stated a archaeologists discovery where they found similar basket in the vicinity of Lithos village. The study doesn't show the concrete connection of the basket with Lithos people and supporting evidences that Lithos people made it and did any trade with Palean people. The assumption that the Lithos village is situated across the Brim River near the Palea village doesn't prove that connection of basket with Lithos. To strengthen the argument, the author would benefit from implementing the correct sources to show any pattern which justifies production of the baskets in Lithos village.
Furthermore, the author never clearly mentioned the correlation between Lithos and Palea villages which are situated across the Brim River. If any research happened in the Brim River area to find the Palean boat for the collecting the evidences of any trade activity between the villages, then nowhere is mentioned the area of research to completely justify that no boat was found. It is also possible the area covered during the discovery was small or large, and there could be some other modes of commuting between the villages. There are many unanswered questions like how much area was covered to find the Palean boat? or Was that river existed during the existence of Palea and Lithos villages?
Thus, the argument is not helping us to conclude that who made the baskets. The author's argument is not likely significantly persuade the conclusion that the basket was not uniquely Palean.
Comments
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: 15 15
No. of Words: 375 350
No. of Characters: 1853 1500
No. of Different Words: 156 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.401 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.941 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.44 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 140 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 93 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.491 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.533 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.399 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.648 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.178 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 128, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'baskets'' or 'basket's'?
Suggestion: baskets'; basket's
...ent does not make a cogent case for the baskets origin from Palea or Lithos. This argum...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t the basket was not uniquely Palean. First of all, the argument believed that...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 205, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'their'?
Suggestion: the; their
... of baskets. If the basket was found in the their village, it doesnt prove that the baske...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 227, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...sket was found in the their village, it doesnt prove that the basket was related to th...
^^^^^^
Line 9, column 33, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
.... Additionally, the author stated a archaeologists discovery where they fou...
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Line 9, column 35, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'archaeologists'' or 'archaeologist's'?
Suggestion: archaeologists'; archaeologist's
... Additionally, the author stated a archaeologists discovery where they found similar bask...
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Line 9, column 137, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...e vicinity of Lithos village. The study doesnt show the concrete connection of the bas...
^^^^^^
Line 9, column 392, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...s the Brim River near the Palea village doesnt prove that connection of basket with Li...
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Line 13, column 624, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Or
...ea was covered to find the Palean boat? or Was that river existed during the exist...
^^
Line 17, column 81, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...conclude that who made the baskets. The authors argument is not likely significantly pe...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, if, so, then, thus, while, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1905.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 372.0 441.139720559 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12096774194 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39173103935 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48280594399 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.427419354839 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 587.7 705.55239521 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: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.2944835904 57.8364921388 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.0625 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.25 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0625 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.151911631387 0.218282227539 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0590294487268 0.0743258471296 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.029304491839 0.0701772020484 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0920314561994 0.128457276422 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0378263275667 0.0628817314937 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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