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.
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.
The argument claims that woven palean baskets were not originally palean as they were found in another village across the deep, broad Brim river. This claim might sound logical but if the statement is perused carefully, it is clear that the author has not considered some important evidence before inferring the conclusion. Thus, the argument is based on fallacious reasoning.
First of all, the author cites that no boats were found in the palean village hence inferring that there was not any mean the two villages could have been connected through. However, there is a possibility that the palean boats might have existed and later on destroyed due to climatic and environmental changes. Thus, the argument is missing the evidence of environmental changes that might have disintegrated the boats. Besides, there might be modes of crossing the river other than boats such as water vessels. Archeologists should also search for any kind of water vessel as it could weaken or strengthen this argument.
Secondly, it is possible that the Brim river might have been shallower or even non-existent in the past, thus, providing a land route between the two villages. Hence this argument assumes that the Brim river was before as it is now and without entertaining the evidence of topographical changes the conclusion is deduced. Therefore, topographical evidence should also be documented in order to strengthen the argument.
Finally, the palean baskets might have been carried away by flood if there were any in the history of the villages. So, the argument should also provide the evidence that there were not any floods in the past in order to make it more logical and less prone to attacks.
In conclusion, the argument presented is fallacious lacking basic evidence to claim whether the baskets were or were not of palean origin
Comments
Essay evaluation 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: 14 15
No. of Words: 301 350
No. of Characters: 1499 1500
No. of Different Words: 142 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.165 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.98 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.594 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 101 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 81 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 52 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.4 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.929 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.386 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.617 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.079 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 161, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... a land route between the two villages. Hence this argument assumes that the Brim riv...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, in conclusion, kind of, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 55.5748502994 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1542.0 2260.96107784 68% => OK
No of words: 301.0 441.139720559 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12292358804 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66485361632 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 204.123752495 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.481727574751 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 481.5 705.55239521 68% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.4233102086 57.8364921388 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 110.142857143 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4285714286 5.70786347227 183% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
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: 0.212694260096 0.218282227539 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0859341478401 0.0743258471296 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0467683040041 0.0701772020484 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133206703157 0.128457276422 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0115291352396 0.0628817314937 18% => 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: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.77 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 98.500998004 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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