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.
In the argument stated, it was found that the baskets that were presumed to be made only by Palean people are not uniquely Palean.The archaeologists have come to such a conclusion after they found Palean baskets in Lithos which is an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea. However, before this conclusion is properly evaluated, three questions must be answered.
First of all, was there any evidence regarding the manufacturing of the baskets in Palea ? In other words, it could have been the case that the baskets were manufactured in Lithos and sold in Palean and its neighboring villages due to its significant demand and to increase the economy of Lithos. There may have been a possibility that these baskets were sold predominantly in Palean due to its popularity or findable location and hence were called Palean baskets. Lithos was situated across a deep river from Palean and hence travelling to and fro to buy baskets would have been tedious Furthermore, the people of Lithos may have had a poor standard of living and hence could'nt afford to buy baskets and hence were traded to be sold in the places with a better economy. If either of these scenarios has merit, then the conclusion drawn in the argument is significantly weakened.
Secondly, the fact that no boats was found in the excavation, proves that boats did not exist for these villages to commute ? There may have been a possibility that the boats were washed away due to the high current of the Brim river during heaving rains or any natural disaster. During the archaeological search, no boats were found but that does not confirm that the people did not commute across the villages.In the ancient years, trading was done at a huge scale and for these villages that have a river between them, a boat is evident. One such trade could have been of the Palean baskets from Palea to Lithos. Some wealthy villagers from Lithos might have traveled to Palea to buy these baskets and hence the discovery of these baskets was found in Lithos. If the above is true, the argument does not hold water
Ultimately, does the argument give any evidence about the existence of the villages simultaneously? There may have been the case that the people living in Lithos started the manufacturing of the baskets and were faced by some disaster and the village was destroyed, making the people to move from Lithos to Palean and start their life there. And hence the baskets were manufactured in Palean by these people and were known to be Palean baskets. Due to the baskets being manufactured there first, traces of such baskets were found. If the above diegesis is literal, then the argument is purposefully weakened.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now, is greatly inaccurate due to various unjustified postulations. If the writer is able to give justified explanations to all the above scenarios and provide accurateverification (perhaps in the form of a systematic analysis of the argument), then it will be possible to verify thoroughly whether the Palean baskets were uniquely from Palea or Lithos.
Comments
e-rater score 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: 20 15
No. of Words: 524 350
No. of Characters: 2510 1500
No. of Different Words: 206 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.784 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.79 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.62 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 169 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 116 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 74 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.2 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.497 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.85 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.366 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.533 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.133 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, in conclusion, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 41.0 19.6327345309 209% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 76.0 55.5748502994 137% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2568.0 2260.96107784 114% => OK
No of words: 521.0 441.139720559 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92898272553 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77759609229 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71984478459 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.406909788868 0.468620217663 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 821.7 705.55239521 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.1273171802 57.8364921388 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.157894737 119.503703932 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.4210526316 23.324526521 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.94736842105 5.70786347227 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => 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: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.298052190174 0.218282227539 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106990602687 0.0743258471296 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0820269738573 0.0701772020484 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186597593043 0.128457276422 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0652386714246 0.0628817314937 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 98.500998004 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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