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 discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the
argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The statement above, gives two contradict methods of two anthropologists about child-upbringing culture of a island. The letter method: interview center method may be a more accurate method, but there are some gaps describing the method. It will need more other process other than interviewing the children of Tertia; to establish the letter method as a more accurate method. And observation method for evaluate the child-rearing culture cannot be deny as a whole wrong method.
To know the culture of any place it is very important to communicate with the inhabitants there; it is the most dependent process to know them easily. The letter method stated by Dr. Krap, only includes communicating with the children; there is no mention about the view of adults regarding the issue. Children are naive, may be they spend much of their time in home with parents, but they are reared by the adults of the island, when their parents are in working place. Any children would be fond of their parents, so they surely would talk about their parents. There is no mention that they if they were asked about the other adults; may be, they were asked about their parents. So, by interviewing the adults of the island would give a more clear view of the child-rearing culture of the island.
Moreover, the connection between the cultures of island of Tertia with the other island has not mentioned; in which basis does the interview-centered method in Tertia can help in evaluating the culture of other island? The geographical position of the islands, similarities in other cultural views could be mentioned here. This idea entails more information about the cultural relationship between the islands. The observation method cannot be underestimated only in the basis of what children said, more proves need to invalidate it.
Observation of anything can differ from person to person, it cannot be a process of evaluating the culture of a group; but there is no mention of that, Dr. Field did not interview the people of the island. Also, the observation method cannot be underestimated only in the basis of the interviewing children, more proves need to invalidate it.
Culture differs from place to place, any particular culture of a place can only be known through the people of that place. So, talking to them regarding any particular culture; help to reach any particular view of that culture. Child-rearing culture can be distinctive for any particular place; the similarities in cultures of places can be established by individually evaluating the cultures of each place. Hence, more theory need to confirm the letter method most accurate.
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- The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagreewith the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take.In developing and supp 50
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Essay evaluation report
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 435 350
No. of Characters: 2148 1500
No. of Different Words: 163 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.567 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.938 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.864 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 150 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 100 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.028 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.55 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.352 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.567 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.146 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 108, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...gists about child-upbringing culture of a island. The letter method: interview ce...
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Line 2, column 322, Rule ID: MAY_BE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'maybe' (=perhaps)?
Suggestion: maybe
...egarding the issue. Children are naive, may be they spend much of their time in home w...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, moreover, regarding, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.9520958084 162% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 55.5748502994 124% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2208.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 435.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07586206897 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56690854021 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90460839028 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.411494252874 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 698.4 705.55239521 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.6994363353 57.8364921388 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.4 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.75 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.5 5.70786347227 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0912191368299 0.218282227539 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0349200777767 0.0743258471296 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.032612992925 0.0701772020484 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0618204506302 0.128457276422 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0288912470235 0.0628817314937 46% => 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: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 12.18 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.8 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 98.500998004 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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