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 archaeol

The argument claims that so-called Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean as similar baskets have been found 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. Stated in this way argument fails to mention several key evidences, on the basis of which it can be evaluated.

First, there should be detailed study of the course and nature of river over the years. The argument readily assumes that Palean river was always very deep and broad and cou...

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...ate change and it was not always so deep , this would surely weaken the argument. ...
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...l. For example, the nature of Brim river , if it was seasonal river which was dry ...
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...river which was dry in winters and hence , people can trade across the river. Clea...
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...is can weaken the argument significantly . The argument would be more convincing i...
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...ything about Lithos boats. To illustrate , what if the art of making boats were on...
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...rgument and would weaken the stated one.The argument could have been much clearer i...
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...enty of artifacts common to both of them , we can conclude that there was for sure...
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... people of two villages. On the contrary , if research shows that only basket was ...
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...that only basket was common between them , this would strengthen the claim of the ...
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... between both villages. In conclusion , the argument is flawed because of above...
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...idences. In order to asses the situation , it is essential to have full knowledge ...
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...istory of the course and nature of river , Lithos boats and similarities between t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, if, second, so, then, therefore, well, as for, for example, in conclusion, on the contrary

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2106.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 434.0 441.139720559 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85253456221 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56428161445 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45042759113 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 204.123752495 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.421658986175 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 647.1 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.0571523367 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.285714286 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6666666667 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.90476190476 5.70786347227 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 5.25449101796 228% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.142606966658 0.218282227539 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0481426817741 0.0743258471296 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.07703177895 0.0701772020484 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10215879565 0.128457276422 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100008665807 0.0628817314937 159% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.85 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.25 8.32208582834 87% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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argument 1 -- OK

argument 2 -- OK

argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 435 350
No. of Characters: 2050 1500
No. of Different Words: 183 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.567 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.713 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.349 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 142 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 55 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 29 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.714 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.195 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.325 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.539 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.116 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5