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.
From the article, it was concluded that the shildren of Trtia spend much more time talking about their parent than with other adults n the village. This conclusion was based on the interview carried out with the children living in the group of islands which includes tertia. However, for this argument to be properly evaluated, two evidnces must be provided.
Firstly, the argument assumes that Tertia is similar in other Islands. There is need to provide a compelling evidences to support this assumption beacause the way of raring in Tertia could be different to other Islands. For instance, some parent might decide to send their wards to leave with a family friend because of financial capability and other family peculiarity. This might leads to the children leaving with someone different from their biological parent. Although, the interview might not cover this aspect while questioning the children, but there is need to provide evidence of such to adquately evaluate this assumption.
Secondly, the argument assumes that children is superior to their biological parent and other adults in the village. In the argument, it wasn’t properly explained while the children was priorotised in lieu of their parents or adults in the village while caarying out the interview. Ther should be an evidence explaining why the children is considered for the interveiew rather than their parent. For instance, the children might not be aware of why they were raised by other another individual in the village. Maybe the children were handed over at tender age and they might not have a clue about their parent therby, they tends to talk more about the individual that raised them much more better rather than their biological parent.
In conclusion, this argument as it stands now, is flawed because of several unwarranted and unexplained assumption made in the argument. Therefore, for this argument to be properly evaluated, there should be more compelling evidences to which the conclusion in the argument was based. This evidence could make the argument more viable and more effective.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 338 350
No. of Characters: 1713 1500
No. of Different Words: 153 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.288 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.068 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.505 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 130 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 97 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 72 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.125 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.999 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.372 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.566 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 630, Rule ID: NON3PRS_VERB[2]
Message: The pronoun 'they' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'tend'
Suggestion: tend
... a clue about their parent therby, they tends to talk more about the individual that ...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 692, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'better' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: better
...ut the individual that raised them much more better rather than their biological parent. ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, for instance, in conclusion, talking about
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 : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1762.0 2260.96107784 78% => OK
No of words: 337.0 441.139720559 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22848664688 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28457229495 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6229204893 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.462908011869 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 544.5 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 39.2395985422 57.8364921388 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.125 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0625 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.5625 5.70786347227 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0698521120013 0.218282227539 32% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.030467822596 0.0743258471296 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0285683624677 0.0701772020484 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0442336110881 0.128457276422 34% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0262661432999 0.0628817314937 42% => 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: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => 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: 13.05 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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