The ancient Oppo tribe has long been thought to have hunted only with wooden spears because none of their cave paintings depict bows or arrows. Recently, however, flint arrowheads have been found among the fossilized bones of ibex, animals thought to be a staple of the Oppo tribe’s diet. Since these finds were made on land previously inhabited by the Oppo tribe, it follows that the Oppo used both spears and arrows to hunt.
The given argument states that the ancient Oppo tribe which had earlier been thought to have used only spears for their hunting as apparent from their cave paintings also used arrows as a weapon for hunting. The author attributes this conclusion to the recent finding of flint arrowheads in the fossil of Ibis which was the staple diet of the tribe. The author fallaciously derives a conclusion, from unsubstantiated evidence.
Firstly, the argument relies only on cave paintings as evidence to ascertain the tribe's use of only wooden spears for hunting. The author fails to consider other available depictions and artifacts such as sculptures, manuscripts or the presence of the hunting equipment itself which may have aided in strengthening the argument's assumption.
Secondly, the argument implicitly assumes that since the Ibis was the staple diet of the inhabitants of the Oppo tribe, the arrowhead found in the fossil of the Ibis must have belonged to the tribe. The argument fails to consider possibilities of another tribe having inhabited the area, other than the Oppo tribe, which could have hinted the Ibis. Had the argument provided grounds based on which such possibilities were eliminated, it could have been strengthened.
The given argument fails to provide the reader with details such as the period during which the tribe inhabited the area, presence of other evidence for ascertaining the equipment used by the tribe for hunting-such as artifacts, manuscripts, etc. The presence of such facts would have surely strengthened the argument.
The given argument, therefore, lacks a coherent and logical approach towards the given facts. It unassumingly derives conclusions with no strong backing. It has too many assumptions and flaws in it's reasoning to be deemed as acceptable.
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Comments
Essay evaluation 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: 12 15
No. of Words: 285 350
No. of Characters: 1484 1500
No. of Different Words: 136 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.109 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.207 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.78 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 105 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 81 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.938 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.393 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.664 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.124 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 351, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...which was the staple diet of the tribe. The author fallaciously derives a conclusio...
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Line 3, column 320, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'arguments'' or 'argument's'?
Suggestion: arguments'; argument's
...ich may have aided in strengthening the arguments assumption. Secondly, the argument ...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 342, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...strengthening the arguments assumption. Secondly, the argument implicitly assume...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, as to, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 19.6327345309 31% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 28.8173652695 35% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 55.5748502994 58% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1518.0 2260.96107784 67% => OK
No of words: 285.0 441.139720559 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32631578947 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86171274158 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 204.123752495 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.508771929825 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 466.2 705.55239521 66% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.5368713761 57.8364921388 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.769230769 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9230769231 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.84615384615 5.70786347227 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.225874100865 0.218282227539 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0790490870611 0.0743258471296 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.063111070661 0.0701772020484 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122417842499 0.128457276422 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0739083281903 0.0628817314937 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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.