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.
Using patches of evidence, the given passage concludes that baskets earlier attributed to Paleans were, in fact, not unique to Paleans. This conclusion is broadly based on two disjointed shreds of evidence. One is the discovery of a "Palean" basket in Lithos. The other evidence is the current depth and width of the Brim River, which requires boats to get across. Archaeologists have not found any evidence of boats associated with the Paleans yet. However, the conclusion tied to this evidence holds true only if a specific set of assumptions were true. In the event of any of these assumptions being proven false, the complete argument will fail.
Firstly, the assumption that the depth and width of the Brim River would remain unchanged through several hundred years is flawed. It is well known for rivers to keep changing its form dynamically. Meandering and straightening periodically, the dimensions of the river do not remain stable with time. The river may have been a small rivulet during the prehistoric times which would have made crossing it quite easy. It is even possible that there may not have been a river and people of different villages were able to communicate without any obstacle.
Secondly, the discovery of a "Palean" basket in Lithos does not necessarily mean that the basket was devised in Lithos itself. The basket may have found its way across to Lithos as a trinket, an item of trade made by the barterers of Palea or simply given as a gift. The discovery of a single basket should not be taken as evidence for disattributing the basket from Palea.
Also, if the premise of the river being broad and deep holds true and no evidence of boats in Palea are found by archaeologists, there is a possibility that the people of Lithos may have used boats to cross the Brim river and communicate with the Paleans. Moreover, not being able to find Palean boats does not warrant the non-existence of such boats. They simply may not have been found yet. Or, have disintegrated with the passage of time beyond recognition.
Therefore, the evidence provided by the archaeologists needs to be reexamined with a fine toothed comb and reasonable assumptions should be made. Finding evidence to debunk the above arguments will strengthen the argument. Currently, the argument gives little reason to believe that Palean baskets are not unique to Palea.
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...boats to get across. Archaeologists have not found any evidence of boats associat...
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... of assumptions were true. In the event of any of these assumptions being proven false, t...
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...obstacle. Secondly, the discovery of a 'Palean' basket in Lithos doe...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'well', 'in fact']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.234375 0.25644967241 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.180803571429 0.15541462614 116% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0669642857143 0.0836205057962 80% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0691964285714 0.0520304965353 133% => OK
Pronouns: 0.015625 0.0272364105082 57% => OK
Prepositions: 0.122767857143 0.125424944231 98% => OK
Participles: 0.0758928571429 0.0416121511921 182% => Less participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.88074393851 2.79052419416 103% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0290178571429 0.026700313972 109% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.116071428571 0.113004496875 103% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0245535714286 0.0255425247493 96% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00446428571429 0.0127820249294 35% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2393.0 2731.13054187 88% => OK
No of words: 398.0 446.07635468 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.01256281407 6.12365571057 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46653527281 4.57801047555 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.331658291457 0.378187486979 88% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.236180904523 0.287650121315 82% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.173366834171 0.208842608468 83% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.118090452261 0.135150697306 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88074393851 2.79052419416 103% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 207.018472906 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492462311558 0.469332199767 105% => OK
Word variations: 53.5314315387 52.1807786196 103% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.039408867 110% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0909090909 23.2022227129 78% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.8879955849 57.7814097925 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.772727273 141.986410481 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0909090909 23.2022227129 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.681818181818 0.724660767414 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 3.58251231527 112% => OK
Readability: 41.7089995432 51.9672348444 80% => OK
Elegance: 1.63025210084 1.8405768891 89% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.461536896277 0.441005458295 105% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.101205407593 0.135418324435 75% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0627836174965 0.0829849096947 76% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.54427344148 0.58762219726 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.133085787457 0.147661913831 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.175438985432 0.193483328276 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0664642234883 0.0970749176394 68% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.344796738432 0.42659136922 81% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0523854613424 0.0774707102158 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.309446004982 0.312017818177 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0391125740816 0.0698173142475 56% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.33743842365 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.87684729064 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.82512315271 207% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 5.36822660099 75% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.82389162562 177% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 14.657635468 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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