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, archa

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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.Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.

The above argument is has numerous logical flaws and therefore is not convincing. Mainly, the inability of crossing the river does not necessarily imply that the baskets were not created in palea. In the follwoing paragraphs I will demonstrate these flaws and discuss their cases one by one.

First, assume that people in palea could not travel across the Brim river in order to reach to lithos. then the passage concludes that these baskests must have been created in lithos. this argument is based on the groundless assumption that the only way between these two villages has to be crossing the river. but, there might have existed other routes of traveling such as circumventing the river through land. Hence, the mentioned argument is not necesseraly correct, and might be accepted if the possibility of finding other routes between these two is refuted. A way to support this hypothesis might be refuting the possibility of existence of any route between these two villages through studying other archaeological objects that are considered to belong to only one of these two villages. if other charactersitics of the two villages are disparate, then one can conclude that there is no way that these two villages have been connected through routes.

Secondly, if we assume that the only route between these two cities could have been through crossing the river by boats, then, not finding boats is not a strong evidence that boats did not exist. since these two villages are considered ancient, they belong to a distant time. since wood has a short period of degrading it seems implausible to expect wooden boats created back then still be extant. In order to strenghten this part of the argument the writer should provide evidence that the villagers in these two cities were not able to build boats because of technological restraints.

Thirdly, even though these two villages are ancient, they do not necessarily belong to the same time period, and, hypothetically, it might be the case that the baskests found in lithos were created by people who migrated to lithos after some time and abondoned palea. therefore one way to improve the argument might be studying the historical time periods that these baskest were created in these two historical villages.

Ultimately, because the arguemnt written above has many flaws it is not convincing but, there are ways that the writer can use to improve their argument.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, if, second, secondly, so, still, then, therefore, third, thirdly, as to, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 28.8173652695 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2041.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 401.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0897755611 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61722569463 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.443890274314 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 638.1 705.55239521 90% => 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: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.9266646777 57.8364921388 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.058823529 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5882352941 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.82352941176 5.70786347227 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.126927954071 0.218282227539 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0502306128453 0.0743258471296 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0412075004587 0.0701772020484 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0661067413167 0.128457276422 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0387338507231 0.0628817314937 62% => 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: 12.54 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.

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: 10 15
No. of Words: 401 350
No. of Characters: 1980 1500
No. of Different Words: 168 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.475 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.938 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.557 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 133 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 40.1 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 23.317 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.428 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.732 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.145 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5