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.
Based on the very fact, that the Brim River is broad and deep, the author insists, that only by boat can one across the river. As no boat has been found in Palean so far, therefore, the only plausible explanation of a unique Palean basket being discovered in Lithos has to be that the basket belongs to Lithos. In other words, it was, from the author’s perspective, impossible to carry a Palean basket to Lithos without boat.
The first hidden assumption made by the author is the river never dry up, or not being frozen at any time, or the water lever has been remained the same as always, under all of which circumstances human beings are not able to walk across the river. So we need more evidence to show whether the Brim River changes to be possible to cross by walking. If any document or other geological materials indicate that the Brim River had once been dried up, then it will certainly weaken the author’s claim.
The second hidden assumption is the author assumes the Brim River had been shaped before the particular basket came to being. We have to, therefore, identify both of the forming time of the Brim River and the Palean basket. If the Brim River formed before the basket, it definitely strengthens the author’s claim. Otherwise, such basket being carried to Lithos without boat is consequently reasonable.
Another crucial assumption, according to the author’s argument, is Palean people and only Palean people could ever carry the basket to Lithos. From the fact that no boat was found in Palean, the author derived an inference that such basket was impossible to be carried to the rival village. However, we need to see whether there’s a boat as old as the basket in Lithos. If the answer is yes, then the basket was probably carried by Lithos people when they sailed to Palean for trade, and accidentally brought the distinctive basket back to Lithos. In that case, the claim raised by the author was weakened.
Lastly, the author preconceived that the basket must have been brought by human beings. However, natural force also could be involved in the translocation of the basket. One single basket found in Lithos was hardly able to exclude the non-human factors as a cause of that. It’s perhaps the waves pushing it to the bank near Lithos. Thus, given that the more Palean baskets were discovered in Lithos, the more likely the basket belongs to Lithos. Of course it should be concluded when the above three assumptions turn out to be true.
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'consequently', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'lastly', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'thus', 'as to', 'of course', 'in other words']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.223382045929 0.25644967241 87% => OK
Verbs: 0.181628392484 0.15541462614 117% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0772442588727 0.0836205057962 92% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0647181628392 0.0520304965353 124% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0187891440501 0.0272364105082 69% => OK
Prepositions: 0.112734864301 0.125424944231 90% => OK
Participles: 0.0647181628392 0.0416121511921 156% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.44614254545 2.79052419416 88% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0459290187891 0.026700313972 172% => OK
Particles: 0.0062630480167 0.001811407834 346% => OK
Determiners: 0.129436325678 0.113004496875 115% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0125260960334 0.0255425247493 49% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0062630480167 0.0127820249294 49% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2487.0 2731.13054187 91% => OK
No of words: 431.0 446.07635468 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.77030162413 6.12365571057 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55637350225 4.57801047555 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.352668213457 0.378187486979 93% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.204176334107 0.287650121315 71% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.118329466357 0.208842608468 57% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0881670533643 0.135150697306 65% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44614254545 2.79052419416 88% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 207.018472906 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.466357308585 0.469332199767 99% => OK
Word variations: 51.2132463711 52.1807786196 98% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.039408867 105% => OK
Sentence length: 20.5238095238 23.2022227129 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.5704110588 57.7814097925 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.428571429 141.986410481 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5238095238 23.2022227129 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.666666666667 0.724660767414 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.58251231527 0% => OK
Readability: 40.9414429345 51.9672348444 79% => OK
Elegance: 1.51181102362 1.8405768891 82% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.41611864962 0.441005458295 94% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.121605628235 0.135418324435 90% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0603875488333 0.0829849096947 73% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.610886418009 0.58762219726 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.12932233173 0.147661913831 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.19005996466 0.193483328276 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0723293194651 0.0970749176394 75% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.532734908499 0.42659136922 125% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0647221663365 0.0774707102158 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.307205713091 0.312017818177 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0249186937121 0.0698173142475 36% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.33743842365 48% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.87684729064 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.82512315271 228% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 3.0 6.46551724138 46% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 5.36822660099 56% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.82389162562 212% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 14.657635468 82% => OK
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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