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.
Though it could be true that Palean basket were not uniquely Palean but in making this argument author make some unwarranted assumptions which can be argued. Author fails to mention several key factors, for example author fails to mention what he meant by unique. Whether he meant unique in terms of shape or size or process in making the basket. There are many lack of details which makes the author’s argument not so very cogent.
For starters, author does not specifically mention to what extent the basket found in the Lithos is similar to the one found near Palean village. Whether it is similar in terms of shape, size, texture, etc. we can’t tell for sure. For all we know it could be type of basket endemic to the Lithos region only and comparing it to the Palean basket is totally unacceptable. And even if it is similar to the Palean basket, this in no way to tell for sure that it belongs to the Lithos region. It could be given to the Lithos people by the palena people. Due to this author’s argument seems little farfetched and the argument would have been much clearer if it explicitly gave some specific details about the basket found in the lithos.
Secondly, in making the argument author assume that only Palean people were likely to travel long distances and and didn’t mention travelling habits of the Lithos people. As mentioned above there is a possibility that Lithos people visited the Palean region and took back some of the Palean baskets with them while returning. Or Palean people would have given basket to them as a gift or token.
Additionally, author assumes that for crossing the Brim river palena people only used boats and there is no other ways to cross the river. What if palean or lithos people were technologically advanced and built a bridge over the river for conveniently crossing the river. And archeologist didn’t find any brigde cause it got damaged due to some natural calamity or got withered away naturally over this long period of time and the traces of the ruins were carried away from the site by the flowing river.
And finally, author based his arguments on the fact that there were no boats found. In the argument he/she failed to mention where they looked for the boats, whether archeologist searched for the boats near the palean region or near the lithos region. If they failed to find any boats in one region then this is not incontrovertible that they will not find any boat in other region. And even if they looked for the boats in both regions and could not find any boat doesnt mean there were no boats present. In ancient times boats were generally made by using woods and wood can deteriorate completely when exposed to natural conditions over a long period of time. May be this is the reason archeologist didn’t find any traces of any boats.
So the author concluding that Palean basked were not uniquely Palean is flawed in many ways due to the lack of supporting evidences and has no legs to stand for. It could be strengthened if the author clearly mentioned the relevant facts.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 358, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun lack seems to be countable; consider using: 'many lacks'.
Suggestion: many lacks
...process in making the basket. There are many lack of details which makes the author'...
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Line 4, column 109, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: and
...le were likely to travel long distances and and didn't mention travelling habits o...
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Line 4, column 278, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...visited the Palean region and took back some of the Palean baskets with them while returnin...
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Line 6, column 414, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... withered away naturally over this long period of time and the traces of the ruins were carrie...
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Line 8, column 253, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...alean region or near the lithos region. If they failed to find any boats in one re...
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Line 8, column 466, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...oth regions and could not find any boat doesnt mean there were no boats present. In an...
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Line 8, column 648, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...posed to natural conditions over a long period of time. May be this is the reason archeologist...
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Line 8, column 668, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (May) must be used with a third-person verb: 'is'.
Suggestion: is
...ditions over a long period of time. May be this is the reason archeologist didn&ap...
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Line 11, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... clearly mentioned the relevant facts.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'finally', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'then', 'while', 'for example']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.238255033557 0.240241500013 99% => OK
Verbs: 0.169463087248 0.157235817809 108% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0738255033557 0.0880659088768 84% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0486577181208 0.0497285424764 98% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0352348993289 0.0444667217837 79% => OK
Prepositions: 0.119127516779 0.12292977631 97% => OK
Participles: 0.0453020134228 0.0406280797675 112% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.46166154795 2.79330140395 88% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0335570469799 0.030933414821 108% => OK
Particles: 0.00167785234899 0.0016655270985 101% => OK
Determiners: 0.109060402685 0.0997080785238 109% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0184563758389 0.0249443105267 74% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0134228187919 0.0148568991511 90% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3092.0 2732.02544248 113% => OK
No of words: 537.0 452.878318584 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.75791433892 6.0361032391 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81386128306 4.58838876751 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.344506517691 0.366273622748 94% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.189944134078 0.280924506359 68% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.109869646182 0.200843997647 55% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0707635009311 0.132149295362 54% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46166154795 2.79330140395 88% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 219.290929204 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.418994413408 0.48968727796 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 48.4985933629 55.4138127331 88% => OK
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6194690265 121% => OK
Sentence length: 21.48 23.380412469 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.1790801097 59.4972553346 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.68 141.124799967 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.48 23.380412469 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.44 0.674092028746 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.21349557522 173% => OK
Readability: 40.4744134078 51.4728631049 79% => OK
Elegance: 1.58940397351 1.64882698954 96% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.377332934046 0.391690518653 96% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.154335349238 0.123202303941 125% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.109738159815 0.077325440228 142% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.555010356615 0.547984918172 101% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.159894820198 0.149214159877 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.1464996887 0.161403998019 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0730647234791 0.0892212321368 82% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.385947315963 0.385218514788 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0346552444137 0.0692045440612 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.2492505948 0.275328986314 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0606693727767 0.0653680567796 93% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.4325221239 58% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.30420353982 245% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88274336283 123% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 7.22455752212 69% => OK
Negative topic words: 13.0 3.66592920354 355% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.70907079646 148% => OK
Total topic words: 22.0 13.5995575221 162% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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