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 islande cultures.”
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 advocates that the observation-centered approach used by dr. field is less invalid than the interview-centered method adopted by his team. To substantiate this conclusion, the author points out that dr. field observed that children in tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their biological parents 20 years ago, while dr. karp recently proves that children living in the groups of island that include tertia spend more time talking about their biological parents, using an interview-centered approach. although it may seem reasonable at first glance, the conclusion, however, is rife with assumptions and holes. The evidence for the support of the assumptions given is inadequate, thus making the claim not convincing enough to lead to the conclusion that the interview-centered approach outperforms the observation-centered one. My reasons are stated as follows.
A paramount problem involved in this argument is that the arguer simply assumes that the situation nowadays remains the same as the situation twenty years ago. although this might be entirely possible, the author offers no solid evidence to substantiate this crucial assumption. it is very likely that tertia has changed significantly over the past 20 years. For example, the village adopted a Western-style family structure and children are indeed reared by their biological parents when dr. karp pays his visit. therefore, unless the author gives crucial evidence that the situation is primarily the same between it is recently and it was 20 years ago, the assumption is not solid enough to draw the conclusion that the observation-centered approach is overshadowed by the interview-centered one.
Additionally, the arguer assumes that the islands near tertia have the same culture as tertia's. Nevertheless, neither any conclusive scientific evidence nor any anecdotal evidence is provided to substantiate this important assumption. As a matter of fact, great possibilities are that there is no relation between the cultures of villages inside the group of islands. therefore, unless the arguer can supply more specific evidence like the results given by the interviews only inside tertia residents or solid evidence that the nearby village has the same culture of rearing children can he makes his argument more strongly bolstered.
Finally, even if the foregoing assumptions on which the conclusion is based can be substantiated by the author, the argument merely relies on the unwarranted assumption that the results of his study can be safely extended to the conclusion that interview-centered methods are inherently more valid than observation-centered ones. In fact, more careful evaluations are needed to support the validity of this extension. To be specific, more studies should be involved and the study designs might also be carefully examined. it is possible that dr. field did not conduct an effective observational study while other observation-based ones could be effective. In order to affirm this grandiose claim, the author really needs to provide more additional evidence to validate the applicability of his result to a wider conclusion.
To sum up, there are, as I have presented, many obvious flaws that need to be addressed and much crucial evidence that needs to be provided before the conclusion can be seriously scrutinized. Otherwise, any impetuous extension of the results of the study to the anthropological framework would be unlikely to have accurate conclusions.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 541 350
No. of Characters: 2913 1500
No. of Different Words: 249 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.823 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.384 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.31 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 222 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 171 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 127 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 80 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 38.643 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 20.423 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.367 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.625 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.108 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: Although
..., using an interview-centered approach. although it may seem reasonable at first glance,...
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Suggestion: Although
...same as the situation twenty years ago. although this might be entirely possible, the au...
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Suggestion: It
...o substantiate this crucial assumption. it is very likely that tertia has changed ...
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Suggestion: Therefore
...l parents when dr. karp pays his visit. therefore, unless the author gives crucial eviden...
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Suggestion: Therefore
...f villages inside the group of islands. therefore, unless the arguer can supply more spec...
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...signs might also be carefully examined. it is possible that dr. field did not cond...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, really, so, therefore, thus, while, for example, in fact, talking about, as a matter of fact, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.6327345309 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 13.6137724551 154% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 28.8173652695 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 16.3942115768 159% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2975.0 2260.96107784 132% => OK
No of words: 541.0 441.139720559 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.49907578558 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82280071112 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.35595070646 2.78398813304 121% => OK
Unique words: 260.0 204.123752495 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480591497227 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 943.2 705.55239521 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.1876154349 57.8364921388 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.423076923 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8076923077 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.03846153846 5.70786347227 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.67664670659 235% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.193709740151 0.218282227539 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0644094497367 0.0743258471296 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0828790741411 0.0701772020484 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106783744342 0.128457276422 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0805095075196 0.0628817314937 128% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.3550499002 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.62 12.5979740519 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 140.0 98.500998004 142% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.