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 passage offers two evidence to illustrate that the “Palean basket” is not uniquely Palean. One is that such basket was found in another village Lithos, the other is no boat was found to prove that the ancient Paleans went to Lithos across the Brim River. However, I think the second evidence is insufficient because no Palean boats was found does not mean no Palean boats ever existed. To fully support the argument the author needs to prove that it is impossible for the ancient Paleans to have boats in order to travel across the Brim River, and there was no other access for the Paleans to Lithos. The author also needs to make sure that the Palean baskets was not traded to other villages and then to Lithos. Only after the author exclude every occasion of interaction between Palea and Lithos can we conclude that the basket found in Lithos was originally made by the residents there.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, second, so, then, i think
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 12.9520958084 8% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 55.5748502994 36% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 751.0 2260.96107784 33% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 159.0 441.139720559 36% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.72327044025 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55098862472 4.56307096286 78% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30370756597 2.78398813304 83% => OK
Unique words: 87.0 204.123752495 43% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.547169811321 0.468620217663 117% => OK
syllable_count: 240.3 705.55239521 34% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 6.0 19.7664670659 30% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.5484871718 57.8364921388 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.166666667 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5 23.324526521 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.66666666667 5.70786347227 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 1.0 5.15768463074 19% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160041694632 0.218282227539 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0862955379506 0.0743258471296 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0181109988279 0.0701772020484 26% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160041694632 0.128457276422 125% => 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: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 12.5979740519 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 34.0 98.500998004 35% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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 -- 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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