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.

Baskets with that particular distinctive pattern is found in vast numbers in Palea, but only one such basket has been found in Lithos. This suggests that the people of Lithos might not have had the knowledge of how to make these baskets. Evidence of just one such basket could be explained by trade or perhaps strong water currents or winds that may have blown the basket from Palea, across the river to Lithos. While there have been no Palean boats found, as of this day, the implication that the Palean people never crossed the river would be wrong. Evidence of the Palean boats may not have survived, or other traders from a different settlement could have brought back the "Palean" baskets with them on their own boats. Thus the "Palean" basket found in Lithos could be attributed to trade between the two settlements. If a more in-depth search of the Lithos or other archaeological dig sites gives evidence of the baskets in higher quantities, then the conclusion made above could be have more merit.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 735, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...; baskets with them on their own boats. Thus the 'Palean' basket found in ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, then, thus, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 19.6327345309 36% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 55.5748502994 45% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 852.0 2260.96107784 38% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 174.0 441.139720559 39% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89655172414 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.63192868298 4.56307096286 80% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73770808901 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 101.0 204.123752495 49% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.580459770115 0.468620217663 124% => OK
syllable_count: 256.5 705.55239521 36% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 19.7664670659 35% => 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.2174728677 57.8364921388 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 121.714285714 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8571428571 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.42857142857 5.70786347227 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 1.0 5.15768463074 19% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.264819352028 0.218282227539 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12944389321 0.0743258471296 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0859106520319 0.0701772020484 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.264819352028 0.128457276422 206% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0628817314937 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 33.0 98.500998004 34% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.

Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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