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, 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 can be concluded from the evidence that the probability of the Lithos being the original creators of the woven basket is much higher than the probability that the baskets came from the village of Palea. This argument stems from three basic claims. The first being that the only passage between the two cities is the Brim river. The second is the fact that there were no Palean boats found and the third being that evidence surrounding the basket’s origins are either from the Palean or Lithos village.
While it could be possible that the Lithos were the original makers of the basket, one could also consider the possibility that the Paleans were the originators of the distinct woven baskets on the basis that there were other ways to commute between the two villages other than the river Brim. It is possible that there is a much longer route around the river which is not yet known to the archaeologists or the existence of some unknown path somewhere which the archaeologists are not aware of. The existence of alternative routes would weaken the argument because the Paleans could have transferred their knowledge to the Lithos via communication made possible through an alternative route.
Another possibility to look out for is the existence of the river in the first place. It is given that the villages are ancient, this could mean that during the formation of the baskets, the river brim was not in existence and that rather than a river, a valley was just the only thing separating the two villages. This valley would have been the route through which the inhabitants of the villages passed to move from village to village. The archaeologists might have not found any evidence of an existing valley before the river was formed which in turn weakens the argument.
Palean boats were claimed not to be found. It could have been that there were indeed boats used to cross the river, but a disaster happened and the boats were washed away to an unknown location or sunk down to river depths not accessible to the archaeologists which could probably due to lack of sufficient resources or technological knowhow.
The argument initially started out by saying that the baskets were initially woven in Palea, however, after some more search, it is indirectly claimed to have been found in Lithos. What if their search was not thorough enough? What if the basket even originated from other villages or vicinities, but because no new archaeological evidence has been found yet, the claim of Lithos village being the originators still persists.
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Comments
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: 16 15
No. of Words: 433 350
No. of Characters: 2086 1500
No. of Different Words: 176 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.562 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.818 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.515 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 131 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.062 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.723 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.356 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.592 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.1 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, second, so, still, third, while, as for, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.6327345309 178% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2127.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 433.0 441.139720559 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91224018476 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56165014514 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57841411767 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.431870669746 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 665.1 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 80.3919111292 57.8364921388 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.9375 119.503703932 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0625 23.324526521 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.70786347227 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.20373554029 0.218282227539 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0734632802347 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0563669902177 0.0701772020484 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123561962514 0.128457276422 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0313365230045 0.0628817314937 50% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.3550499002 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.197005988 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
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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