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.
The issue of the uniqueness of the Palean basket is as timely as ever. Recently these baskets were discovered in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea. He suggests that River is deep and broad, so the ancient Paleans crossed it only by boat, and no Palean boats were found and based on this he claims that Palean basket were not Palean uniquely. Though the underlying issue has merit, because of lack of evidence, weak assumption, and vague terminology the author’s argument is unsubstantiated.
First of all author’s assumption of boats as only mode of transportation is questionable. It is possible that basket might have been dropped by someone in Palea into the River and it might have reached Lithos with the flow of the river like pollen or seeds of plants are transported in the river. So flow of river can also play an important role in the transportation of the basket.
Secondly, the author claims that the river is deep and broad but he undermines the fact that whenever the river is such broad and deep, there could be small gap between the two banks of the river at some distance from the village where it might be easy for transportation and people might have used that place transportation.
Finally, basket could also sent through wires attached on the both sides of the river which might not have been discovered by the researchers. In order to substantiate this there is a river named Manikaran where people use wires to transport items from one side to another.
Despite the argument’s flaws and unconvincing terminology the author could strengthen his position by providing evidences that might help us to reach a conclusion. Also he should consider the above stated facts only then the argument’s reasoning would be significantly improved. However, without these changes, the argument is implausible and reasonable faulty.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 28, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'could' requires the base form of the verb: 'send'
Suggestion: send
...ortation. Finally, basket could also sent through wires attached on the both side...
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Line 9, column 170, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...at might help us to reach a conclusion. Also he should consider the above stated fac...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'then', 'first of all']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.252124645892 0.25644967241 98% => OK
Verbs: 0.152974504249 0.15541462614 98% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0594900849858 0.0836205057962 71% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0509915014164 0.0520304965353 98% => OK
Pronouns: 0.028328611898 0.0272364105082 104% => OK
Prepositions: 0.13597733711 0.125424944231 108% => OK
Participles: 0.0481586402266 0.0416121511921 116% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.9282958449 2.79052419416 105% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0113314447592 0.026700313972 42% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.116147308782 0.113004496875 103% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0339943342776 0.0255425247493 133% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0113314447592 0.0127820249294 89% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1895.0 2731.13054187 69% => OK
No of words: 313.0 446.07635468 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.05431309904 6.12365571057 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.57801047555 92% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.306709265176 0.378187486979 81% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.223642172524 0.287650121315 78% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.166134185304 0.208842608468 80% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.121405750799 0.135150697306 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9282958449 2.79052419416 105% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 207.018472906 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.543130990415 0.469332199767 116% => OK
Word variations: 56.9181387213 52.1807786196 109% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 20.039408867 65% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0769230769 23.2022227129 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.3956225833 57.7814097925 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.769230769 141.986410481 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0769230769 23.2022227129 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.846153846154 0.724660767414 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 46.4411403293 51.9672348444 89% => OK
Elegance: 1.87804878049 1.8405768891 102% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.424511713626 0.441005458295 96% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.137224018757 0.135418324435 101% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.080734929308 0.0829849096947 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.624834748543 0.58762219726 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.152737228987 0.147661913831 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.188998159656 0.193483328276 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0634931388302 0.0970749176394 65% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.345204358708 0.42659136922 81% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.111198547792 0.0774707102158 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.277217574519 0.312017818177 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0579624985756 0.0698173142475 83% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.33743842365 60% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.87684729064 58% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.82512315271 83% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 6.46551724138 62% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 5.36822660099 75% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 14.657635468 68% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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