Clay pots of a particular specific design have earlier been found in the surrounding area of the prehistoric village of Karia and so were supposed to have been made exclusively by the people from Karia. However, of late, archeologists discovered a 'Karian' clay pot in Toga, an ancient village across the Mist River from Karia. The Mist River is very deep and wide, and so the ancient Karians could have crossed it only by boat, and no Karian boats have been found. Hence it is obvious that the so-called Karian clay pots are not uniquely Karian.
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 seems to jump to a hasty conclusion. The evidence is simply not enough. We can resort to conjecture at best. There is no evidence presented about whether the river changed its course in the intervening millennia, or whether its water level has remained steady. Also, we cannot really know for sure if they indeed used boats yet. How thorough was the excavation? Thus it seems that the argument needs some more conclusive evidence. Let us discuss this further.
It is assumed that river flow is steady and not prone to changes over the millennia. However, nature is in a constant flux. It is very plausible that Karians had access to a ford that allowed them to cross without boats, and that ford later disappeared. If that is so, then Toga might have been a branch of Karia sharing a similar culture and lifestyle. That would explain why the Karian pots landed in Toga. To substantiate this, we would need to date the pots from each village. If the Toga pots are more recent, it is very likely they originated from Karia.
If the river changed course, then it explains why the boats are not discovered yet. The current banks may be different from back then. A small alteration in the route of the river, would mean that boats may have been buried in the river bed. Humans themselves possess the ability to change river courses as per their needs. Romans changed the course of the Tiber river. If future empires altered the course of the river, it is also possible that both villages once fell on the same side of the river , and may indeed have been one. We need more evidence regarding the Mist River's past to come to a conclusion.
The archaeologists need to analyse the other artefacts found in the villages and look for similarities. If they too far apart, it stands to reason that Toga was indeed a different culture from Karia and then the pots are really not that unique. But we find similarities, again, it is likely that Toga was just a branch of Karia. Without further such evidence, we really cannot comment about this uniqueness of the 'Karian' pots.
The argument is very compelling and with more evidence can be strengthened or weakened. The above mentioned points illustrate some glaring holes in the evidence that need to be plugged before we figure out the Karian pot mystery.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 28 15
No. of Words: 406 350
No. of Characters: 1852 1500
No. of Different Words: 203 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.489 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.562 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.346 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 119 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 80 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 47 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 29 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 14.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.706 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.255 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.449 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.117 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: Thus,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, may, really, regarding, so, then, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1912.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 406.0 441.139720559 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.70935960591 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48881294772 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43850778784 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522167487685 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 603.9 705.55239521 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 4.96107784431 242% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 19.7664670659 142% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 22.8473053892 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.943058087 57.8364921388 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 68.2857142857 119.503703932 57% => More chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 14.5 23.324526521 62% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.42857142857 5.70786347227 43% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 19.0 4.67664670659 406% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.145069918328 0.218282227539 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.035741568995 0.0743258471296 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0492038349082 0.0701772020484 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0786282883071 0.128457276422 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0606205076595 0.0628817314937 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.0 14.3799401198 56% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.73 48.3550499002 136% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 12.197005988 62% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.45 12.5979740519 75% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.79 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 4.0 12.3882235529 32% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 11.1389221557 68% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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