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.
In order to evaluate the argument that the Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean, one must first glance at the similarities between the newly discovered Palean basket and the previous one. The latter was characterized by a very specific pattern which if proven to be identical to the recently found basket, would confirm that the artifacts are not unique to the Palean people.
Another important piece of evidence has to do with the positioning of the villages. According to the text, they were in close proximity, only to be divided by a river. It is therefore plausible that the two ancient populations might have interacted and such baskets would have been exchanged or that ancient Paleans could have migrated to the area across the river and as such, brought their basket weaving skills with them.
When looking at the Brim River, one must analyze the depth and broadness in the specific time frame as water is known to be an erosive factor which can cause significant changes in landscape. Therefore, we would not be able to point out whether the now-deep river was previously a shallow one, which would have allowed the baskets to be transported one way or the other.
Moreover, there needn’t be evidence of a Palean boat; an ancient Palean instrument which would have allowed cargo to be carried over the river, such as a rudimentary raft meant only for goods, would suffice to show that Paleans and Lithoes traded and could thus explain the discovery of the baskets.
Additionally, the paragraph mentions no evidence regarding other means of passing the river, such as a bridge. If either the Lithoes or the Paleans could be proven to have used bridge-like constructions, it would serve as a strong argument to prove that the two populations came into contact and therefore the Lithoes could have learned the distinctive wooving specific to the Palean baskets.
Lastly, the originally discovered Palean baskets were found “in the immediate vicinity” of the Palean village. This may very well serve to show that the baskets in fact belonged to a different village but were wrongly attributed to the Palean as they might have also been carried there by strong river currents from Lithos. This would strengthen the argument in the sense that it would prove that the baskets were not at all uniquely Palean, on the contrary, the Paleans would thus be the “imitators”.
In conclusion, there is not sufficient evidence in order to support the claim that the baskets were not uniquely Palean and more proof is needed if we are to make this statement.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: is
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'if', 'lastly', 'look', 'may', 'moreover', 'regarding', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'thus', 'well', 'as to', 'in conclusion', 'in fact', 'such as', 'on the contrary']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.209979209979 0.25644967241 82% => OK
Verbs: 0.176715176715 0.15541462614 114% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0769230769231 0.0836205057962 92% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0519750519751 0.0520304965353 100% => OK
Pronouns: 0.018711018711 0.0272364105082 69% => OK
Prepositions: 0.101871101871 0.125424944231 81% => OK
Participles: 0.0602910602911 0.0416121511921 145% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.73575857853 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.043659043659 0.026700313972 164% => OK
Particles: 0.002079002079 0.001811407834 115% => OK
Determiners: 0.128898128898 0.113004496875 114% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.04158004158 0.0255425247493 163% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.010395010395 0.0127820249294 81% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2592.0 2731.13054187 95% => OK
No of words: 432.0 446.07635468 97% => OK
Chars per words: 6.0 6.12365571057 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55901411391 4.57801047555 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.351851851852 0.378187486979 93% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.280092592593 0.287650121315 97% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.164351851852 0.208842608468 79% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.106481481481 0.135150697306 79% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73575857853 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 207.018472906 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.472222222222 0.469332199767 101% => OK
Word variations: 52.0563279459 52.1807786196 100% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 20.039408867 70% => OK
Sentence length: 30.8571428571 23.2022227129 133% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.4064217031 57.7814097925 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 185.142857143 141.986410481 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.8571428571 23.2022227129 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.35714285714 0.724660767414 187% => Less Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.14285714286 136% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 58.8664021164 51.9672348444 113% => OK
Elegance: 1.50420168067 1.8405768891 82% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.475305788497 0.441005458295 108% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.145740194112 0.135418324435 108% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0573207814978 0.0829849096947 69% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.7511553674 0.58762219726 128% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.159199425295 0.147661913831 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.239869992063 0.193483328276 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0569558784623 0.0970749176394 59% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.407727330671 0.42659136922 96% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0536148494886 0.0774707102158 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.297601674117 0.312017818177 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0750812005675 0.0698173142475 108% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.33743842365 60% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.87684729064 44% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.82512315271 124% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 5.36822660099 56% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.82389162562 142% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 14.657635468 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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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