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 given argument that so-called “Palean” baskets with a distinctive pattern were not uniquely Palean due to a recent discovery of such basket in Lithos by the archaeologists lacks three specific evidences in order to evaluate the argument and thus, three assumptions should be addressed.
First of all, one of the reasons why Palean baskets are now thought to be not uniquely Palean is because The Brim River is very deep and broad and so the ancient Paleans could have crossed it only by boat but no Palean boats have been found. However, whether Brim River was also very deep and broad during the time Palean baskets were created and used is unknown. If the Brim River was not so deep and broad during this time and ancient Paleans were easily able to travel across the river to Lithos by foot then, the argument would be very weakened and the those so-called Palean baskets can still be uniquely Palean.
Secondly, there is no information on how much investigation efforts and resources were spent on looking for Palean boats. If the Palean baskets were more studied due to its higher historic value than the Palean boats then, there still might be a possibility that Palean boats would be found in the future and that would explain how Palean baskets arrived at Lithos. If this indeed happens, the argument would also be weakened and the Palean baskets can still be uniquely Palean made.
Thirdly, could there be any other way for Palean baskets to be found in Lithos other than ancient Paleans personally traveling carrying the baskets across the Brim River by the boats? Perhaps, one of the young aged ancient Paleans were playing with the baskets by the river and may have inadvertently lost grasp of the basket and it floated on its own across the river and ancient inhabitants from Lithos picked it up and started using it. Those other ways of the baskets traveling across the river other than personal touch of ancient Paleans would weaken the argument that those cannot be uniquely Palean anymore.
In conclusion, above evidences are needed to evaluate that Palean.
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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: 11 15
No. of Words: 356 350
No. of Characters: 1696 1500
No. of Different Words: 152 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.344 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.764 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.266 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 123 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 81 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 38 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 19 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 32.364 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.935 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.909 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.486 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.76 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.204 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thirdly, thus, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1747.0 2260.96107784 77% => OK
No of words: 356.0 441.139720559 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90730337079 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4088401215 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.435393258427 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 536.4 705.55239521 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => 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: 32.0 22.8473053892 140% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 71.3268579229 57.8364921388 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 158.818181818 119.503703932 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.3636363636 23.324526521 139% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.4545454545 5.70786347227 201% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
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: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.189780048812 0.218282227539 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0912864705917 0.0743258471296 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0487898398225 0.0701772020484 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108901929274 0.128457276422 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0449969887113 0.0628817314937 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.9 14.3799401198 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.46 48.3550499002 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.79 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.8 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 98.500998004 59% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 12.3882235529 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.1389221557 133% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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