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.
In this argument the author concludes that the Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean. To support this the author cites following facts. First, archaeologists discovered Palean basket in Lithos. Besides, the river between Lithos and Palan is very deep and broad. Then, no Palean boats have been foud. Close scrutiny of each of these facts, however, reveal none of these facts lends credible support to the conclusion.
First, the mere fact that no Palean boats have been found does not mean that no boat existed at all. Perhaps the Palean boat wad made by some easily decomposing material such as woods. After a few years, the woods had already been eroded. In order to evaluate the argument, the author should provide more specific record evidences that the river existed in then.
Even if the author successfully justifies that there were no boats, the argument still based on a flawed assumption that the only way carrying Palean baskets from Palean to Lithos was by boat. Since no evidence corroborates this assumption, it is entirely possible that the basket was not directly brought to Lithos by the people lived in Paean or Lithos, but rather by trade. Furthermore, since only one single blanket has been found, this boat might be droped by a resident of Palean, and then drifted to the opposite side. Any of these scenarios, if true, would serve to undermine the conclusion that the baskets were not uniquely Palean.
Finally, the author also needs to provide evidence to substantiate that there did exist a river in the past. Otherwise, there might not be a river at all. If it is true, the residents of villages could walk away and back freely, with baskets, let alone "cross the river". Without this crucial evidence, any reasoning based on this fact is unconvinced.
In short, the argument is replete with ambiguous points. The lack of enumerated evidence renders the argument open to different explanations defying any certain evaluation. Therefore, the conclusion which is based on such an inconclusive argument cannot be tenable.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 303, Rule ID: CLOSE_SCRUTINY[1]
Message: Use simply 'scrutiny'.
Suggestion: Scrutiny
.... Then, no Palean boats have been foud. Close scrutiny of each of these facts, however, reveal...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'besides', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'therefore', 'in short', 'such as', 'it is true']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.229591836735 0.25644967241 90% => OK
Verbs: 0.170918367347 0.15541462614 110% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0739795918367 0.0836205057962 88% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0739795918367 0.0520304965353 142% => OK
Pronouns: 0.00510204081633 0.0272364105082 19% => Some pronouns wanted.
Prepositions: 0.114795918367 0.125424944231 92% => OK
Participles: 0.0535714285714 0.0416121511921 129% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.58136789467 2.79052419416 93% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0255102040816 0.026700313972 96% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.137755102041 0.113004496875 122% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.015306122449 0.0255425247493 60% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00255102040816 0.0127820249294 20% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2063.0 2731.13054187 76% => OK
No of words: 340.0 446.07635468 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.06764705882 6.12365571057 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29407602571 4.57801047555 94% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.373529411765 0.378187486979 99% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.261764705882 0.287650121315 91% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.176470588235 0.208842608468 84% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0970588235294 0.135150697306 72% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58136789467 2.79052419416 93% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 207.018472906 92% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561764705882 0.469332199767 120% => OK
Word variations: 61.7870621584 52.1807786196 118% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.039408867 105% => OK
Sentence length: 16.1904761905 23.2022227129 70% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.0012957364 57.7814097925 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.2380952381 141.986410481 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.1904761905 23.2022227129 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.714285714286 0.724660767414 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.58251231527 28% => OK
Readability: 42.3669467787 51.9672348444 82% => OK
Elegance: 1.59183673469 1.8405768891 86% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.411080649837 0.441005458295 93% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0829475333213 0.135418324435 61% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0683132327002 0.0829849096947 82% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.494836610209 0.58762219726 84% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.124747627426 0.147661913831 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.14288892907 0.193483328276 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0687874768383 0.0970749176394 71% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.345882829039 0.42659136922 81% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0529135321785 0.0774707102158 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.258935733212 0.312017818177 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0770353266447 0.0698173142475 110% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.33743842365 60% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.87684729064 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.82512315271 124% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 6.46551724138 46% => OK
Negative topic words: 9.0 5.36822660099 168% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 14.657635468 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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