"Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia and concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. However, my recent interviews with children living in the group of islands that includes Tertia show that these children spend much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. This research of mine proves that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture is invalid and thus that the observation-centered approach to studying cultures is invalid as well. The interview-centered method that my team of graduate students is currently using in Tertia will establish a much more accurate understanding of child-rearing traditions there and in other island cultures."
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 the article, Dr. Karp endorses the superiority of his interview-centered method in comparison to the observation-centered approach Dr. Field used in the past. While his arguments may seem impeccable, there are few points that must be addressed to properly evaluate his point.
First, Dr. Karp must ensure that his interview respondents were as honest as possible in their answer. Conscious about the publicity of his answer, a person may give different answers than what is reflected in his beliefs or every day life. Also, it may be a cultural norm to talk about one’s biological parent more than anything else in Tertia. This potential discrepancy between an interviewee’s answer and his actual tradition needs to be disproved before the acceptance of Dr. Karp’s opinion.
Another evidence that is necessary is whether the interviews were conducted over the correct region. In the article, Dr. Karp mentions that the interviews were conducted in “group of islands that includes Tertia.” However, if Dr. Karp’s students spent most of their interview time on other islands, the results may be biased and his conclusion in the importance of biological parents in the culture may be invalid.
Another possibility is that both the interview and observation-central approaches are valid. In other words, both Dr. Karp and Dr. Field may have been correct. Dr. Field conducted his study twenty years ago, which means the culture itself may have changed over the years. Thus, it may be natural and correct that Dr. Karp’s results prove different from Dr. Field’s experiences. This would require further research on the Tertian culture of upbringing kids to divulge the truth.
In conclusion, Dr. Karp’s argument that strongly displays his predilection for interview-centric approach is based on assumptions that may be disproved. Such assumptions must be supported by strong evidence as suggested above in order to judiciously assess his claims.
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Essay evaluation report
sample arguments:
https://www.testbig.com/story/gre-argument-essay-topic-21-outline
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 308 350
No. of Characters: 1600 1500
No. of Different Words: 166 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.189 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.195 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.025 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 116 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.044 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.562 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.371 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.601 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.092 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 275, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...order to judiciously assess his claims.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, so, thus, while, in conclusion, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1693.0 2260.96107784 75% => OK
No of words: 308.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.49675324675 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.2622535843 2.78398813304 117% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.561688311688 0.468620217663 120% => OK
syllable_count: 498.6 705.55239521 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.5687060924 57.8364921388 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.866666667 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5333333333 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.73333333333 5.70786347227 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.255522817768 0.218282227539 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0934909722979 0.0743258471296 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.05397370683 0.0701772020484 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151234343289 0.128457276422 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0499201652634 0.0628817314937 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.62 12.5979740519 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.32208582834 110% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.