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.
While the speaker claim may seem true, his claims rests on a number of unjustified assumptions, poor quantification and numerous logical flaws which make it impossible to validate his conclusion.
The speaker assumed that since the woven basket was discovered by the archaeologists in Lithos, that once known Palean basket is not truly Palean's but Litho's. The speaker failed to present an irrefutable evidence that will support his claim. Just because the woven basket was discovered at Lithos doesn't mean it is theirs. What if the woven basket discovered in Lithos was owned by a Palean or a person from another village which the speaker didn't mention of? The conclusion made by the speaker is too porous to be considered plausible. However, in other to improve this argument the speaker should provide a lucid evidence showing that this basket is of Lithos origin.
Also, the speaker flawed argument was exacerbated when he failed to provide quantification for various properties such as the depth and the breadth of the river between the Palean and Lithos villages. Stating that the river is very deep and broad and therefore, precludes the possibility of Palean crossing over. Who measured the depth and the breadth of the river? The part of the river near the Palean may not be too deep or far to enable the Palean villagers to pass or swim through. There is no clear evidence to back this claim . The argument could be improved by quantifying the depth and breadth of the river.
Finally, the speaker made a dubious claim that "no Palean boats have been found". Who reported this ? Who was responsible for checking if Palean boats have entered Lithos? This claim is too light to be true. In order to validate this claim the speaker need to provide more evidence that will substantiate his claim.
The argument was based on questionable assumptions, lack of quantification and contain numerous logical errors that make it impossible incontrovertible. To make his claim unequivocal, the speaker would need to quantify his claim and provide more evidence that will enable his claim to be plausible and indisputable.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 354 350
No. of Characters: 1732 1500
No. of Different Words: 159 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.338 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.893 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.69 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 122 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 90 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 52 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.632 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.097 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.474 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.34 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.34 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.103 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 297, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...e woven basket was discovered at Lithos doesnt mean it is theirs. What if the woven ba...
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Line 2, column 442, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
... from another village which the speaker didnt mention of? The conclusion made by the ...
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Line 3, column 532, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
... is no clear evidence to back this claim . The argument could be improved by quant...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, may, so, therefore, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1779.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 352.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05397727273 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78464168401 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.471590909091 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 544.5 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.9388375916 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.95 119.503703932 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6 23.324526521 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.35 5.70786347227 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0974369489081 0.218282227539 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0351594570201 0.0743258471296 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0496480383641 0.0701772020484 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.051741519538 0.128457276422 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0487443029551 0.0628817314937 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.3799401198 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.71 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.62 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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