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.
In the argument the author questions the uniqueness of the Palean baskets. He based his assumptions on the recent discovery of those Palean baskets in regions other than Palea, geographical disadvantages to spread the baskets, absence of Palean boats. However, his conclusion is based on some unwarranted assumptions. To prove the persuasiveness of the author's argument, the following three questions need to be addressed.
First of all, Does the discovery of Palean baskets only in the Palean region really proves that these baskets are really unique to palea?
It may not be necessarily the case. Perhaps these kinds of baskets were made by people from other regions also but the evidence had vanished or they are yet to be found. In reality, it may also happen that, Palean people imported these baskets from different regions.
If one or more of the abovementioned cases are true then it will question the uniqueness of the Palean baskets.
Secondly, the author assumes that the Brim River hasn't changed its course over time. What if the river was narrow and shallow in the past and has changed drastically recently for some geographical reason. Maybe in the past, it was so small that Palean people were actually able to pass it just by swimming or by walking. It may also happen that the river was almost the same as it is today but some of its portions were passable. Inability to correctly answer these questions jeopardize the persuasiveness of the author's argument.
Finally, does the Brim River being deep and broad means there were no other means of passing the river other than a boat ? What if Palean people were good swimmers or they built a bridge on the river and continuously traded with Lithos. Perhaps it was actually the Litho people who actually crossed the river and brought the baskets with them.
The author's argument is flawed in a different aspect. To make it plausible and genial, the author should support his argument by providing some reasonable and scientific facts rather depending on some vague assumptions.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, then, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 58.6224719101 72% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1732.0 2235.4752809 77% => OK
No of words: 342.0 442.535393258 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06432748538 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.55969084622 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6455248099 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 215.323595506 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.502923976608 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 528.3 704.065955056 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.9931555764 60.3974514979 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 91.1578947368 118.986275619 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.42105263158 5.21951772744 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 10.2758426966 29% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.107496574051 0.243740707755 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0336429681177 0.0831039109588 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0392926801928 0.0758088955206 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.05834798577 0.150359130593 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0470788286057 0.0667264976115 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 100.480337079 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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