The following appeared in an article written by Dr. Karp, an anthropologist.
"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 examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the
argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and
what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
Dr. Karp author of the argument concludes that his research proves that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture is invalid and thus that the observation-centered approach to studying cultures is invalid and the interview-centered method that his team of graduate students is using in Tertia will establish a more accurate understanding of child-rearing traditions. This conclusion is based on inadequate assumptions and unfair comparisons. Without further information, we do not have sufficient evidence to determine whether the author's conclusion is valid.
The author mentions that Dr. Field a noted anthropologist concluded his observations about child-rearing in Tertia 20 years ago and then the author mentions his recent interviews with children. The author does not consider the fact that a lot of things can change in 20 years. Possible changes can be the migration of most people towards urban cities. Younger parents after 20 years would have become more concerned for their children. The time difference between both observations should be considered by the author before proving Dr. Field's conclusion invalid.
Additionally, the author also mentions that his recent interviews with children living in the group of islands that includes Tertia show that these children spend more time talking about their biological parents than the other adults in the village. This argument has two flaws that the author needs to provide further information about. Firstly, as the author mentions interviewing children from a group of islands that includes Tertia, the author needs to provide more information about how many children did he interview from Tertia. Secondly, the author mentions that children talk more about their biological parents which are not appropriately compared with Dr. Fields' conclusion about child rearing. As children are reared by villagers rather than by biological parents is very different than children talking more about their biological parents rather than other villagers which makes this argument vague.
Furthermore, the author mentions the interview-centered method that his 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. The author has not given any additional information about the number of people the team will interview or what are the questions asked in the interview or which age group is the target group for the interview. Without further information the author's conclusion that this method will establish an accurate understanding is inadequate.
Ultimately, unless the assumptions are addressed, the author’s argument that Dr. Fields' observation is invalid and his interview-centered method is more accurate fails to be convincing.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 423 350
No. of Characters: 2364 1500
No. of Different Words: 178 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.535 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.589 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.06 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 187 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 142 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 108 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 66 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.882 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.702 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.353 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.397 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.604 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.155 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 542, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...cient evidence to determine whether the authors conclusion is valid. The author ment...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 133, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (Tertia) must be used with a third-person verb: 'shows'.
Suggestion: shows
...e group of islands that includes Tertia show that these children spend more time tal...
^^^^
Line 5, column 708, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” 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.
... Fields conclusion about child rearing. As children are reared by villagers rather...
^^
Line 5, column 796, Rule ID: RATHER_THEN[2]
Message: Did you mean 'different 'from''? 'Different than' is often considered colloquial style.
Suggestion: from
...by biological parents is very different than children talking more about their biolo...
^^^^
Line 7, column 484, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...erview. Without further information the authors conclusion that this method will establ...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, then, thus, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2403.0 2260.96107784 106% => OK
No of words: 423.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.68085106383 5.12650576532 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53508145475 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11675747079 2.78398813304 112% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.442080378251 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 710.1 705.55239521 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.6023234995 57.8364921388 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.352941176 119.503703932 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8823529412 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.05882352941 5.70786347227 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214482348335 0.218282227539 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0729364985346 0.0743258471296 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0760854786086 0.0701772020484 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126651443161 0.128457276422 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0426731182667 0.0628817314937 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 14.3799401198 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.3550499002 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.96 12.5979740519 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => 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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