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.
While it may be true that the children spoke about their biological parents more than they they did about about other adults in the village, this authors' argument does not make a cogent case for why DR. field’s approach is invalid and his correct as this argument is analogical, and not enough to invalidated Dr. Filed Approach.
Firstly, this author said Dr. Field research happened twenty years ago and his recently. He fails to acknowledge that a lot of changes could have occurred in this village that could have made the villagers change their style of rearing children. Likewise, given the time difference the population /sample are not similar.
Also, it isn't clear the questions the children were asked at the interview if it were centered about their parents, the other adult in the village or not. For such conclusion to be made more details about the interview question will be required. Also, it is not clear if the sample for the interview-base approach is large enough to make such conclusion and as such might not represent the larger population of the children.
Also, it is not clear if enough time were given to the interview-based approach as the observation-based approach which is usually extensive and time consuming.
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Comments
e-rater score report
No. of Words: 209 350
Minimum 250 words wanted
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 8 15
No. of Words: 209 350
No. of Characters: 1012 1500
No. of Different Words: 111 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.802 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.842 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.666 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 64 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 53 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 38 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 19 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.125 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.633 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.423 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.549 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.127 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 2 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 87, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: they
...bout their biological parents more than they they did about about other adults in the vil...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 101, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: about
...logical parents more than they they did about about other adults in the village, this autho...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 11, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...ion /sample are not similar. Also, it isnt clear the questions the children were a...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, likewise, may, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 17.0 55.5748502994 31% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1041.0 2260.96107784 46% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 208.0 441.139720559 47% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00480769231 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.79765784423 4.56307096286 83% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.740903291 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 204.123752495 55% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.543269230769 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 318.6 705.55239521 45% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 19.7664670659 46% => 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 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.6839963962 57.8364921388 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.666666667 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1111111111 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.55555555556 5.70786347227 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.118734761335 0.218282227539 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0539646765654 0.0743258471296 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0520846619981 0.0701772020484 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.072183468755 0.128457276422 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0404737358397 0.0628817314937 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 98.500998004 49% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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