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.
it is stated that the palean basket is not uniquely palean because of nonappearance of palean boats. The author has come to this conclusion based on the assumption that ancient paleans used palean boat as a transportation mode. The geological information is mentioned that the village is across the brim river and brim river is deep and broad, the ancient paleans used to cross it only by boat. However, before this recommendation can be fully evaluated, below questions must be answered.
First of all, is it comparable the absence of palean boat and evidence of woven basket in vicinity of the prehistoric village of palea? In other words, the clue of a particular distinctive palea woven basket pattern is sufficient to relate the unavailability of paleans boat? perhaps- it is possible that the paleans boat may be rotten after a decade. The author does not take into account that some natural calamity was responsible for the nonexistence of palean boat. Further, there is a possibility that after few years, paleans found out an alternate route. if either of these scenarios has merit, then the conclusion drawn is significantly weakened.
Secondly, how did the woven baskets reach to immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of palea? perhaps, it is possible that the village palea was involved in trading of woven baskets. The archaeologists discovered the proof of a particular distinctive palea woven basket style. it is a less likely to believe that the palea villagers and its vicinity had the same skills and characteristics in making woven baskets. The author ignores the possibility that the palea villagers skill was demanded and they may want to share their knowledge in order to flourish and thrive. if the above assumptions are true, then the authors conclusion does not hold water.
Thirdly, the author fails to consider that the ancient paleans could have migrated to other locations in search of job or any other purpose. these people could have been carried the woven basket which is significantly known for palean's authentic work. The authors argument is relies on the assumptions for which no evidence has been given.
The argument as it holds now, is considerable flawed due to its reliance on several unwanted assumptions. if the author is able to answer the questions above and offer more evidence, then it will be possible to fully evaluate the visibility of the proposed conclusion. Without additional information, there isn't much reason to believe on conclusion that the palean basket were not uniquely palean.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 418 350
No. of Characters: 2089 1500
No. of Different Words: 198 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.522 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.998 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.798 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 111 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 75 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.867 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.952 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.533 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.35 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.598 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.072 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2144.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 417.0 441.139720559 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.14148681055 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84152525367 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489208633094 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 683.1 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.4375531182 57.8364921388 46% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 97.4545454545 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9545454545 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.40909090909 5.70786347227 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 17.0 5.25449101796 324% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.67664670659 278% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.301607966564 0.218282227539 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0866180801341 0.0743258471296 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0733159398028 0.0701772020484 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148474326724 0.128457276422 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0500602709461 0.0628817314937 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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