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 author concludes that interview-centered method is more accurate and reliable than the observation-centered approach that is used by Dr. Karp. This conclusion was based on the evidence provided by the author, that when the children of some island in Tertia were interviewed, they talked about their biological parents more which was contradicting the conclusion derived from the observation method used by Dr. Karp which stated that these children were reared by the entire village instead of their biological parents. Although the cited pieces of evidences seem logical and probable, but the assumptions on which the conclusion relies does not lend credible support to the argument. Hence the argument seems logically unconvincing in several aspects.
Firstly, the author fails to provide information about the number children he has interviewed. Perhaps if he has interviewed only few children then the conclusion can be inaccurate. Further, even if it is assumed that more number of children were interviewed, but what was the proportion of children who were interview and were belonging to the island of Tertia. Since the author claims that the children from a group of islands were interviewed, then it may be possible that the number of children belonging to Tertia were less. Also was the survey conducted on the children from the entire island, or only those children that lived nearby to the author's hotel or place of stay. Therefore small, biased and unreprensentative samples can considerably weaken the argument.
In addition to this, perhaps, the questions that were asked to the children in the interview were based on their biological parents or maybe they were asked to describe themselves as a result of which they kept mentioning about their biological parents. Further, the children might be show reluctance while answering to the questions and hence would not tend to reveal any information about themselves. Therefore the interview method would fail to achieve its objective as the children may be shy and diffident and thus not give answer to the questions honestly. To strengthen the argument, the author should have provided additional information about the type of children who were interviewed.
Finally, perhaps there may be some other impediments to a successful interview such as language barriers, age of the children and their educational backgrounds. For instance, many of the children belonging to the Island of Tertia, cannot speak any other language other that their local language. If the interviewer is not aware of that language then he cannot possibly gain much information from the children. Also, perhaps if the students are younger then they may be instructed by their parents to not reveal much information about themselves to any strangers. Thus due to all these factors using an observational strategy to gain information from the children can be a much better approach as it will overcome all the language barriers and give a detailed insight into the daily lives of the children
To sum up, the argument consists of some obvious fallacies and loopholes. To strengthen the argument, the author should have provided additional information about the number of children interviewed, or the type of questions that were asked in the survey as well as the type of children that were surveyed. But in the absence of this data, the argument relies on certain doubtful assumptions that render it unconvincing as it stands
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 9 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 555 350
No. of Characters: 2863 1500
No. of Different Words: 224 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.854 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.159 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.876 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 210 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 164 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 133 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 73 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.227 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.568 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.864 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.349 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.546 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.145 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 689, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... lend credible support to the argument. Hence the argument seems logically unconvinci...
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Line 3, column 324, Rule ID: NON_ACTION_CONTINUOUS[2]
Message: The verb belong is usually not used with a continuous form, use the simple form instead. Suggestion: 'belonged'
Suggestion: belonged
...tion of children who were interview and were belonging to the island of Tertia. Since the auth...
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Line 3, column 324, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...tion of children who were interview and were belonging to the island of Tertia. Since the auth...
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Line 3, column 531, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...children belonging to Tertia were less. Also was the survey conducted on the childre...
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Line 3, column 649, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...those children that lived nearby to the authors hotel or place of stay. Therefore small...
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Line 3, column 681, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
... to the authors hotel or place of stay. Therefore small, biased and unreprensentative sam...
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Line 5, column 404, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...eveal any information about themselves. Therefore the interview method would fail to ach...
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Line 5, column 417, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ormation about themselves. Therefore the interview method would fail to achieve i...
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Line 5, column 491, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...chieve its objective as the children may be shy and diffident and thus not give a...
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Line 7, column 297, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” 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.
...nguage other that their local language. If the interviewer is not aware of that la...
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Line 7, column 445, Rule ID: COMPARISONS_THEN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'younger than'?
Suggestion: younger than
...dren. Also, perhaps if the students are younger then they may be instructed by their parents...
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Line 7, column 453, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[3]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...so, perhaps if the students are younger then they may be instructed by their parents...
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Line 7, column 564, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...tion about themselves to any strangers. Thus due to all these factors using an obser...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, honestly, if, may, so, then, therefore, thus, well, while, for instance, in addition, such as, as a result, as well as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 13.6137724551 154% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 28.8173652695 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 55.5748502994 130% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2922.0 2260.96107784 129% => OK
No of words: 555.0 441.139720559 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26486486486 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85370353223 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94667814688 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 204.123752495 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.416216216216 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 893.7 705.55239521 127% => 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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.4869448661 57.8364921388 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.142857143 119.503703932 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.4285714286 23.324526521 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.19047619048 5.70786347227 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 13.0 5.25449101796 247% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175625638372 0.218282227539 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0550771902837 0.0743258471296 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0537171824641 0.0701772020484 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101130541885 0.128457276422 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.047005205184 0.0628817314937 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 98.500998004 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 12.3882235529 157% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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