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 topic here is about a type of woven basket of particular distinctive pattern which was first thought to be exclusive only to the village of Palea and the implication of finding a basket in another village far from the Palea village across a river. upon this finding it was thought this Palean baskets might not be that much unique after all and their decision was based on the not being able to find any Palean boat to cross the river as the river is very deep. Although this sounds very logical and convincing to reach the final decision lets first scrutiny the undelying assumptions behind this judgement.
The main assumption hee is based on not finding any boat of paleans as the river is very broad and deep. This assumption can be identified as flawed in several senses. Firstly, just the Paleans might have used boats, but just because none of them are found yet, we can say that there was no boat at that. also, there might have been some other mode of transportation available at that era which allowed them to cross the river effectively. Again from the arguement it is understood that the river is currently very deep and broad. This might not have been the case at at that period of time as it is geographically know that the depth and the pathway of river changes over the period of time due to many natural causes.
alternatively, it is also possible that the their were some other land crossing abailable at the time with the ancient village from the village Palea. Which enabled the people of Palea to move their and taking this baskets along with them. It is also posssible that some migrant from the village Palea had taken such a basket with him to the village. it is plausible that the migrant might have the skills to make that basket over there. Also there are possibilities that this could have a gift from someone from the Palean village to that village across the river. among other possibilities it is also possible that this basket was used as a trae item for some sort of transaction and reached their by some itinerant person who once visited the Palean village. Furthermore, it is also possible that the basket was moved to that village at a later time when transportation medium to cross the river was established.
From the lessons learnt through the passage of time we have seen the arts and culture along withs skills to be transffered from one nation to another. This transfer was made possible through several direct and indirect mode, like traveling, exchange of gift and expertise of people. So, form the arguement presented before, it can be said that based on just not finding any Palean boat which might be found later and the Brim river being very deep and broad at present it cant be dismissed that the basket was not unique to the Palean. There could be several ways how a basket could have reached that village. So, more cogent evidence is required to strongly dismiss the claim that Basket was not uniquely Palean.
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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: 17 15
No. of Words: 526 350
No. of Characters: 2404 1500
No. of Different Words: 215 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.789 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.57 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.307 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 140 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 101 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 51 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.941 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 19.182 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.529 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.347 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.529 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 253, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Upon
... from the Palea village across a river. upon this finding it was thought this Palean...
^^^^
Line 1, column 516, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'reaching'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'convince' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: reaching
...this sounds very logical and convincing to reach the final decision lets first scrutiny ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 306, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Also
...can say that there was no boat at that. also, there might have been some other mode ...
^^^^
Line 3, column 566, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: at
...road. This might not have been the case at at that period of time as it is geographic...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 577, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...might not have been the case at at that period of time as it is geographically know that the d...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 616, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'known'.
Suggestion: known
... period of time as it is geographically know that the depth and the pathway of river...
^^^^
Line 3, column 678, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...d the pathway of river changes over the period of time due to many natural causes. alternat...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Alternatively
... of time due to many natural causes. alternatively, it is also possible that the their wer...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 41, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'their'?
Suggestion: the; their
...alternatively, it is also possible that the their were some other land crossing abailable...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 211, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...eople of Palea to move their and taking this baskets along with them. It is also pos...
^^^^
Line 5, column 352, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
... such a basket with him to the village. it is plausible that the migrant might hav...
^^
Line 5, column 439, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
... skills to make that basket over there. Also there are possibilities that this could...
^^^^
Line 5, column 508, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...that this could have a gift from someone from the Palean village to that village ...
^^
Line 5, column 568, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Among
...llage to that village across the river. among other possibilities it is also possible...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 36, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
.... From the lessons learnt through the passage of time we have seen the arts an...
^^
Line 7, column 474, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...being very deep and broad at present it cant be dismissed that the basket was not un...
^^^^
Line 7, column 474, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'cants'?
Suggestion: cants
...being very deep and broad at present it cant be dismissed that the basket was not un...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, so, after all, sort of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 38.0 19.6327345309 194% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 26.0 13.6137724551 191% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 28.8173652695 174% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 55.5748502994 126% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2450.0 2260.96107784 108% => OK
No of words: 526.0 441.139720559 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.65779467681 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78901763229 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35953234926 2.78398813304 85% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 204.123752495 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.416349809886 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 770.4 705.55239521 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.7674915385 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.666666667 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0476190476 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.14285714286 5.70786347227 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 17.0 5.25449101796 324% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.67664670659 235% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.186462571068 0.218282227539 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0626003014925 0.0743258471296 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0493065315669 0.0701772020484 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117568180065 0.128457276422 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0167668764827 0.0628817314937 27% => 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: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.3550499002 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.04 12.5979740519 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.52 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 12.3882235529 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => 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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