The following appeared in an article written by Dr. Karp, an anthropologist.
"Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia and concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. However, my recent interviews with children living in the group of islands that includes Tertia show that these children spend much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. This research of mine proves that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture is invalid and thus that the observation-centered approach to studying cultures is invalid as well. The interview-centered method that my team of graduate students is currently using in Tertia will establish a much more accurate understanding of child-rearing traditions there and in other island cultures."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The above assumption states that observation-centered approach does not provide a valid observation in study of culture which is vaidated by an interview-centered approach. This implies that interview-centered method is the conventional method to be followed while studying cultures based on an empirical evidence. It was author's observation that brought this conclusion.
However, this cannot be completely accepted because of the following points - Firstly, the conditions and the environment under which the interview was conducted affects the response of the children. Suppose if children were at their homes along with their parents, their answers would probably be biased. Or else, if the children are not in support of taking care of them by the society or the people in the society, it would also result in a biased answer.The questions asked, also result in the answers generated. If the questions are more related to their parents, they would obviously answer related to that.
If the assumptions prove wrong, then that would result in giving out a vague study of culture. If interview-centered approach is given weightage than observation-centered approach, that would result an answer that is inclined to the response that is collected through interview. As interviewees are children, their responses might not be enough to extrapolate and form a final result. But if both the approaches are used together it would give a more detailed explanation of the culture.
Therefore, the observation-centered approach cannot be ostarcized as this approach would also go hand-in-hand along with the interview-centered approach for a broader knowledge of studying culture.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 257 350
No. of Characters: 1391 1500
No. of Different Words: 133 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.004 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.412 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.472 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 104 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 84 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.417 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.772 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.364 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.364 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.076 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 341, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'want'?
Suggestion: want
..., a person sitting from a small village wants to do an invention, requests for resour...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 261, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun people is countable.
Suggestion: Fewer
...result in supression of new inventions. Less people would come forward for these dev...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, then, whereas, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 33.0505617978 33% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 58.6224719101 53% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1194.0 2235.4752809 53% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 234.0 442.535393258 53% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10256410256 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91114542567 4.55969084622 86% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07221862579 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 128.0 215.323595506 59% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.547008547009 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 356.4 704.065955056 51% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 20.2370786517 49% => 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: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.4768632797 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.4 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 5.21951772744 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.221650115895 0.243740707755 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0886997161328 0.0831039109588 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0469301799065 0.0758088955206 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142047546519 0.150359130593 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0412825242827 0.0667264976115 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 100.480337079 51% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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