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 is that the so-called Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean.
The evidence he provides for this is the finding by archaeologists which suggests a palean basket in Lithos an ancient village across Brim River from Palea. Since the river was very deep and broad, and no Palean boats have been found he believes.The author's conculsion seems to be flawed for a couple of reasons.
As a first, the assumption that there were no boats to be found across the Brim River from palea seems to be so logically flawed. As this was probably thousands of years back which makes the probablity of the boats which the Paleans might have used to cross the river to be still existing there so feable, as there would have probably been so many different civilizations that may have come to that place after that era. Only more research can tell if there were ever were any boats there and if there were any what happened to them later on.
Also, a second assumption that the author makes is that the Paleans only had boats as a method to cross the river during that era. There's no evidence that the author sights in the argument that says building bridges across rivers was not customary during those times. Also, there could have been a case where the water in the river wasn't as deep and the width of the river wasn't as broad at one of the river points. Maybe they could have just crossed the river from that point of the bank on foot easily without and risk of drowning or getting swept away by the sway of river.
Contrary to this, some people might agree to the author that the basket may not have been uniquely Palean attributing to the evidence provide by author that the river was too deep and broad and no boats were found across the Brim River from Palea which would only strengthen the Author's argument if he had provided more evidence as to point if the river was as deep and broad throughout it's length and some other evidence to prove that there were no other civilizations across the Brim river from Palea after the ones which lived there other than the Paleans.
In conclusion, the author's conclusion that the so-called Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean seems to be flawed logically unless he does some more research to about the river's depth and breadth thoughout its length, the presence of no other civilization after the ones that lived across the river other than the Paleans and the bridges not being customarily built during those times across rivers.
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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: 13 15
No. of Words: 445 350
No. of Characters: 2025 1500
No. of Different Words: 174 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.593 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.551 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.178 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 110 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 70 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 51 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 23 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 34.231 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 21.094 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.538 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.428 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.688 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.217 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 5, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
The authors conclusion is that the so-called Palean...
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...alean boats have been found he believes.The authors conculsion seems to be flawed f...
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Line 7, column 344, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...e, as there would have probably been so many different civilizations that may have come to tha...
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Line 11, column 132, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: There's
...hod to cross the river during that era. Theres no evidence that the author sights in t...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wasn't
...een a case where the water in the river wasnt as deep and the width of the river wasn...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wasn't
...asnt as deep and the width of the river wasnt as broad at one of the river points. Ma...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...an the Paleans. In conclusion, the authors conclusion that the so-called Palean ba...
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Line 19, column 174, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'rivers'' or 'river's'?
Suggestion: rivers'; river's
...he does some more research to about the rivers depth and breadth thoughout its length,...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, second, so, still, then, as to, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 13.6137724551 162% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2066.0 2260.96107784 91% => OK
No of words: 442.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.6742081448 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58517132086 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.20183176077 2.78398813304 79% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 204.123752495 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.39592760181 0.468620217663 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 633.6 705.55239521 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 36.0 22.8473053892 158% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 135.04883376 57.8364921388 234% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 172.166666667 119.503703932 144% => OK
Words per sentence: 36.8333333333 23.324526521 158% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.70786347227 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172350356754 0.218282227539 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0821769082813 0.0743258471296 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0372031059211 0.0701772020484 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11522432462 0.128457276422 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0362295710235 0.0628817314937 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.0 14.3799401198 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.86 48.3550499002 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.197005988 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.4 12.5979740519 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 98.500998004 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.4 11.1389221557 147% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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