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 argument discussed about the Woven baskets with a unique pattern that were only been found in Palea, thus were believed to be made by the Palea residents. However, a recent discovery by the archaeologists reported the same Woven baskets in Lithos, then the author assumes that the baskets were not only Palean. The change of attitude based on the new discovery might seem plausible, but a closer look to the details will bring out many logical fallacies.
At first, the argument pointed out that because the basket with a certain pattern were only been found in the vicinity of Palea, so it must be made by the Palean. However, it does not give us any evidence on the making of the basket in Palea. Simply only been found in Palea does not mean they were made in Palea. It is possible that all the baskets were made in a certain village other than Palea, and then were imported to Palea.
Moving on to the new archaeological discovery. The finding of a single basket with such 'Palean' pattern in Lithos led to believe that this type of baskets was not unique as Palean. First of all, with only one basket found in Lithos, this still cannot rule out the chance that the single basket was not actually from Palea. If by further exploring, similar baskets were found at other places could have strongly strengthen the case.
In the argument, it also mentioned that between Palea and Lithos is the Brim River, because no Palean boats were ever found, and the river is deep and broad, so the assumption is without boats Paleans didn't cross the river, thus the Palean couldn't introduce the basket to Lithos. However, it did not mention anything about people from Lithos didn't have ways to cross the river. So the possibility of Lithos people crossing over the river by their boats still exists.
Many assumptions need more supporting information or evidence in order to made believed. The author overlooked the possibility of trade relationship between the two villages, he or she didn't consider fully about Lithos having boats to cross over the river. In order to evaluate whether the baskets were Palean-based, it is recommendable to take more archaeological findings and data information into account.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, look, so, still, then, thus, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1835.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 379.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84168865435 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47347932787 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 204.123752495 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.46437994723 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 577.8 705.55239521 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.5726383291 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.941176471 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2941176471 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.82352941176 5.70786347227 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.362246624729 0.218282227539 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124771181868 0.0743258471296 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103726376352 0.0701772020484 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206048512392 0.128457276422 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.104263044676 0.0628817314937 166% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.09 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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