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 arguement made by the author is very ambigious and does not provide clear evidence to prove his'/her conclusion. There can be may cases that the author did not think of while proving this hypotheses.
He mentions that the woven baskets that where found in the villages of Palea where assumed to be made by the Palean people but as archaeologists did more research of the near by villages they found that similar baskets were found in Lithos but there was no mode of transportation, therefore these baskets are not Palean. What the author fails to take in consideration is the change in geography since the prehistoric times, if we go deep in a study of tectonic movements we will find out that the landmasses on earth shift slightly over years and assuming that Palea and Lithos's villages were at least 500,000 years ago as the author mention prehistoric times, there could have been shift in their landmasses. Or we can say that the river also existed in the early days but was not as deep as it is now and people in those days did not require boats to commute to the other side and over time with heavy rains and surface being dissolved the depth and breadth increased.
There can be one more phenomenon to describe this that both people of Lithos and Paleans come from the same ancestor who used similar design patterns on their crockeries to ornate them. It could have been a possibility of a contentious leader with whom many of the villagers didnt agree and were forced to leave the clan and start their own settlement at a different location, or as it has been popular in the days of kings and queens, a marriage alliance to strengthen their allies and it would clearly explain how it was easy for both the villages to have the same types of baskets. Another possibility can lie in the tradition of the people of Palea, maybe they used to have some festivities and merrials in which they used the baskets as floatation devices in the Brim river and they reached Lithos and people of Lithos used those baskets as containers.
We can assumes another possibility that Palea or Lithos's people didnt use the traditional boats but made use of rafts to commute across the river and along with times the rafts got disintegrated leaving no hard proofs for the archeaologists. There can by many possibilities which the author have not taken into consideration which might weaken his/her arguement, therefore to give a judgement without carefully examining all the possibilities can render it moot.
Comments
e-rater score 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: 10 15
No. of Words: 438 350
No. of Characters: 2042 1500
No. of Different Words: 215 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.575 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.662 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.553 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 118 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 90 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 43.8 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 18.071 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.392 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.661 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.203 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 187, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...e author did not think of while proving this hypotheses. He mentions that the wo...
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Line 3, column 171, Rule ID: NEAR_BY[1]
Message: Did you mean 'nearby'?
Suggestion: nearby
...archaeologists did more research of the near by villages they found that similar basket...
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Line 5, column 276, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
... leader with whom many of the villagers didnt agree and were forced to leave the clan...
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Line 7, column 8, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'assume'
Suggestion: assume
...those baskets as containers. We can assumes another possibility that Palea or Litho...
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Line 7, column 65, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...ossibility that Palea or Lithoss people didnt use the traditional boats but made use ...
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Line 7, column 458, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'moots'?
Suggestion: moots
...ing all the possibilities can render it moot.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, then, therefore, while, at least
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 11.1786427146 206% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 28.8173652695 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2071.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 436.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.75 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56953094068 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61059051844 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 204.123752495 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490825688073 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 649.8 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => 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: 43.0 22.8473053892 188% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 98.3547151895 57.8364921388 170% => OK
Chars per sentence: 207.1 119.503703932 173% => OK
Words per sentence: 43.6 23.324526521 187% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.6 5.70786347227 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.223499952339 0.218282227539 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0800574341897 0.0743258471296 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0710210950535 0.0701772020484 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118711593394 0.128457276422 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.081052436442 0.0628817314937 129% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 22.7 14.3799401198 158% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.29 48.3550499002 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 18.9 12.197005988 155% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.16 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 19.2 11.1389221557 172% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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