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 given text claims that so called Palean baskets were not uniquely from the village Palea. This premise is based on the observation that "Palean" baskets are also found in Lithos, a neighboring village to Palea separated from river. To add to this the separating Brim river is very deep and broad, which can only be crossed by boat, no trace of which has been found in Palea. This would have made for a tenable argument provided at least two things were conclusively explained.
It has been clearly been mentioned in the passage that no Palean boats have been found. However, there is not sufficient evidence to claim that boats did not exist in the neighboring village of Lithos. If hey did, it would render the argument moot since Lithos villagers would have easily crossed the river and interacted with the Palea population.
It has also been mentioned that the Brim river was deep and broad and could only be crossed by boat. There is little substance to deny the possibility of any natural bridges or connectivity by land. We can not say that the entire Palea population was living on an island due to which any movement would have been difficult.
The term boats is also quite loosely defined in the passage. We have to assume that all boat like entities such as rafts, etc were taken into account while making the argument. The river has been termed as broad and deep but no actual dimensions have been supplied to rule out the possibly that villagers could swim from one village to the other. Since, these assumptions are not addressed in the text, one can conclude that the evidence provided is not irrefutable.
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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: 14 15
No. of Words: 284 350
No. of Characters: 1313 1500
No. of Different Words: 145 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.105 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.623 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.314 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 75 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 56 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 36 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 23 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.286 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.229 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.643 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.356 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.554 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.085 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, while, at least, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 55.5748502994 58% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1365.0 2260.96107784 60% => OK
No of words: 284.0 441.139720559 64% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.80633802817 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50087021157 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.542253521127 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 429.3 705.55239521 61% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.0783343014 57.8364921388 49% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 97.5 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2857142857 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.71428571429 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281894025815 0.218282227539 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0971442987756 0.0743258471296 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0723930342811 0.0701772020484 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.181017486407 0.128457276422 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0487064353022 0.0628817314937 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.5979740519 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 98.500998004 62% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => 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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