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.
According to the observation, the author concluded that the findings of Dr. Field is invalid and the interview-centered method is more accurate. The author had come to these conclusions based on the recent interviews with children living in the group of islands. However, the author had come to this conclusion based on several unfounded assumption which need to be substantiated with more information.
First of all, the researches of Dr. Karp were in the group of islands. While Dr. Field had a research only in the island of Tertia. It is possible that people of Tertia are a small proportion of the children that Dr. Karp interviewed and most of the other children who live in different islands reared by their biological parents rather than the entire village. So we cannot conclude that the researches of Dr. Field are flawed. We need more information about islands other than Tertia in order to evaluate the argument.
Moreover, the article introduce Dr. Field as a noted anthropologist, but did not provide any information about Dr. Karp. We cannot count on the information provided by a unknown anthropologist. It is possible that Dr. Kapr made a mistake in collecting information and used a wrong method to interview with children. And if the methods were wrong, we cannot trust on veracity of the conclusion. We need more information about Dr. Karp and his professional activities to trust his outcomes.
Finally, Dr. Karp noted that the interview-centered method was used by the team of graduate students. We cannot trust on the information provided by students at all. The author did not provide any information about the students. Maybe they are not well- experienced in interviewing or they made a mistake in collecting information and provide wrong report. So, we need more information to find out that whether the graduate students had enough experience to provide valid reports or not.
To be brief, the argument is based on several unfounded assumptions. We need more information about the other islands, professional activities of Dr. Karp and the experience of his team which are graduate students. If the author provide these information, we can fully evaluate the argument.
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Comments
e-rater score 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: 21 15
No. of Words: 360 350
No. of Characters: 1800 1500
No. of Different Words: 142 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.356 4.7
Average Word Length: 5 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.995 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 123 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 98 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 74 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.143 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.483 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.476 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.361 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.553 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.175 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 72, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... Dr. Karp were in the group of islands. While Dr. Field had a research only in the is...
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Line 5, column 169, 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
...ot count on the information provided by a unknown anthropologist. It is possible ...
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Line 9, column 238, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this information' or 'these informations'?
Suggestion: this information; these informations
...raduate students. If the author provide these information, we can fully evaluate the argument.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, moreover, so, well, while, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1849.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 360.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13611111111 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08039274192 2.78398813304 111% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 204.123752495 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.422222222222 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 567.9 705.55239521 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.3172790897 57.8364921388 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.0476190476 119.503703932 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1428571429 23.324526521 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.71428571429 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.67664670659 278% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.195531817494 0.218282227539 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.072536326983 0.0743258471296 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0725449994509 0.0701772020484 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119276570115 0.128457276422 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0942513111893 0.0628817314937 150% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.51 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 98.500998004 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => 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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