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.
The argument initially assumes that woven baskets of a certain distinctive pattern were only found in the village of Palea. In the latter, the author argues to conclude that the baskets weren't uniquely Palean but the argument is not well supported.
However, the archaeologists found a similar basket in Lithos which questioned the assumption made at the beginning of the argument. The author then states that Lithos could be reached only by boat since the Brim river is deep and broad and no Palean boats were found. He uses this as evidence for denying the uniqueness of the baskets to Palea.
The evidence is completely baseless since the basket could have been reached Lithos through various reasons. There is no evidence mentioned about how long the basket was in Lithos. Therefore, the boat not being found cannot be strong proof. Also, the basket would have been left by a Palean at any point of time when he visited Lithos. It could also be possible that any Palean lives in Lithos or a person from Lithos would have bought it from Palea.
Therefore, there could be many possible reasons why the Palean basket was found in Lithos. The evidence used by the author to deny the originality of the Palean baskets is not enough to prove the point.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 187, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: weren't
...hor argues to conclude that the baskets werent uniquely Palean but the argument is not...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, so, then, therefore, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 55.5748502994 49% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1043.0 2260.96107784 46% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 217.0 441.139720559 49% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8064516129 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8380880478 4.56307096286 84% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35017619889 2.78398813304 84% => OK
Unique words: 111.0 204.123752495 54% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.511520737327 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 325.8 705.55239521 46% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 23.8012604708 57.8364921388 41% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 86.9166666667 119.503703932 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0833333333 23.324526521 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.75 5.70786347227 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.267577100227 0.218282227539 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102856990945 0.0743258471296 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.07722825429 0.0701772020484 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169299421369 0.128457276422 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0544656749935 0.0628817314937 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 14.3799401198 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.32 12.5979740519 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.44 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 40.0 98.500998004 41% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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