Collectors prize the ancient life-size clay statues of human figures made on Kali Island but have long wondered how Kalinese artists were able to depict bodies with such realistic precision. Since archaeologists have recently discovered molds of human heads and hands on Kali, we can now conclude that the ancient Kalinese artists used molds of actual bodies, not sculpting tools and techniques, to create these statues. This discovery explains why Kalinese miniature statues were abstract and entirely different in style: molds could be used only for life-size sculptures. It also explains why few ancient Kalinese sculpting tools have been found. In light of this discovery, collectors predict that the life-size sculptures will decrease in value while the miniatures increase in value.
The collectors argue that the discovery that the Kalinese artists used mold to sculpt, lead to decline in price of actual life-size sculptures and incline in price of miniatures. However, this argument has several unsubstantiated assumptions and is therefore unpersuasive as it is.
Firstly, the collector assumes that since there are few sculpting tools found, there will be more life-size scuptures. However, this assumption overlooks other possible explanation. Since the Kalinese statues were from ancient times, its tools might be from ancient times and therefore might have been lost after many times. Just because the scupting tools cannot be found, does not mean the ancient people did not actually used it.
Secondly, the collector estimates that since the mold has been use to create life-size clay statue, there will be less usage on tools. However, the collector overlooks other translation to this findings. We cannot overestimate that the use of mold lead to less usage of sculpting tools. There is no direct evidence that more usage of mold lead to less in sculpting. Moreover, there might be a possibility that the ancient Kalinese artists use both methods, sculpting and molding, to make statues.
Thirdly, the collector concludes that since the chance of finding a life-size sculptures are high, the price of these sculptures will be lower than the miniature. However, the collector relies on assumptions that the price of statues are related to rarity. To make this assumption expoundable, there must be other cases that explains this relationship. Moreover, just because the number of the real life statues are more than the number of the miniatures does not lead to increase in price of miniatures. The artistic value of miniature might be lower than the real life statue, or the real life statue has more historical value. Without extra information about the features of the statues or miniatures, the assumption of the collector cannot be plausible.
In conclusion, the collector's assertion that the value of the real-life sculpture will decrease relies on weak evidence and assumption. Moreover, it has some overgeneralized issue without extra information. Therefore, the collector fails to corroborate his assertion.
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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: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 353 350
No. of Characters: 1843 1500
No. of Different Words: 150 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.335 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.221 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.739 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 125 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 108 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 60 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.65 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.295 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.328 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.328 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.081 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 424, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'did' requires base form of the verb: 'use'
Suggestion: use
...ean the ancient people did not actually used it. Secondly, the collector estimates ...
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Line 3, column 64, Rule ID: BE_USE_TO_DO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
... estimates that since the mold has been use to create life-size clay statue, there ...
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Line 3, column 64, Rule ID: USE_TO_VERB[1]
Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
... estimates that since the mold has been use to create life-size clay statue, there ...
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Line 3, column 189, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...ollector overlooks other translation to this findings. We cannot overestimate that t...
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Line 4, column 79, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'sculpture'?
Suggestion: sculpture
...since the chance of finding a life-size sculptures are high, the price of these sculptures...
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Line 5, column 20, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'collectors'' or 'collector's'?
Suggestion: collectors'; collector's
...annot be plausible. In conclusion, the collectors assertion that the value of the real-li...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, firstly, however, if, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1893.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 353.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36260623229 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33454660006 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84898809076 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.444759206799 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 597.6 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => 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: 33.7118673467 57.8364921388 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 94.65 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.65 23.324526521 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.85 5.70786347227 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.169335534539 0.218282227539 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0537202105431 0.0743258471296 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0434294332401 0.0701772020484 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.099866127793 0.128457276422 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0276499740731 0.0628817314937 44% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.51 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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