Until now, the distinctive patterned baskets were thought to exist only in Palea. Recently, archaeologists found a Palean basket in the city of Lithos. Now, there exists Brim river between these two cities. No evidence of boats till now and the river being deep and broad, the archaeologists have concluded that the baskets were indeed not unique to Palea.
Express your views on the author's argument and conclusions by discussing its flaws and/or merits.
Though it could be possible that the Palean baskets were indeed not uniquely Palean , the link between the absence of Palean Boats and the non-uniqueness of the Palean woven baskets is not cogent. The arguement is rife with assumptions and holes that need to be accounted for and countered before anything can be concluded.
One has to consider the fact that geographical phenomenon and factors can account for changes in the environment. This puts a big question mark on the existance of the river itself. What if the river was a product of recent geographical phenomenon? Thus gainsaying the possibility of its existance in the prehistoric time of the villages. Based on this arguement if we assume that the Brim river did not exist in the past , there would have been no demarcation between the cities with a water body. Thus , the baskets could very well be carried to Lithos for trading or other purposes thus justifying their uniqueness and existance in other places at the same time.
If we deny our previous possibility of the absence of the river, what gainsays the fact that a bridge between two cities could have existed? This would facilitate movement of goods between Palea and Lithos , thus countering the non uniqueness arguement. Furthermore , based on the same premise of changing geographical conditions could the river not have changed in depth or breadth? Going from shallow in the past to broad and deep in the recent times?
Ok, let's consider the fact that the rivers were indeed deep and needed boats to cross. No evidence of boats found till now does not mean that they were actually no boats being used then. Could evidence for boats be found in the future ? Highly likely.
The author of the arguement states that archaeologists discovered 'one' such Palean basket. This does not justify the existance of such baskets in Lithos. What if the one basket found was one of the few baskets carried over to the other side by the river? This evidence is not compelling enough to state that such baskets did exist in Lithos.
Now keeping in mind all the above possible loopholes to the author's arguement we have to consider one assumption that the entire arguement is based upon. Till now , such baskets were only found in Palea , note the word 'till now'. There is a possibility that these baskets were indeed not unique and found in many other places.
Considering the author's arguement however ,nothing can be concluded as further evidence and knowledge is required to combat some of the counter-arguements which would need to be accounted for the claim to make sense.
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- TOEFL Official Guide Test2 Writing task 1 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 84, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... baskets were indeed not uniquely Palean , the link between the absence of Palean ...
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...the Brim river did not exist in the past , there would have been no demarcation be...
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...tween the cities with a water body. Thus , the baskets could very well be carried ...
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...vement of goods between Palea and Lithos , thus countering the non uniqueness argu...
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...he non uniqueness arguement. Furthermore , based on the same premise of changing g...
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Suggestion: ,
...entire arguement is based upon. Till now , such baskets were only found in Palea ,...
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...onsidering the authors arguement however ,nothing can be concluded as further evid...
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Line 7, column 125, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, furthermore, however, if, so, then, thus, well, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2144.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 440.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87272727273 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57997565096 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63135467459 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.454545454545 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 664.2 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.4165918611 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.2173913043 119.503703932 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1304347826 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.73913043478 5.70786347227 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 17.0 4.67664670659 364% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.363102851401 0.218282227539 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105282898853 0.0743258471296 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0891693677737 0.0701772020484 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171964217334 0.128457276422 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0859088405298 0.0628817314937 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.3799401198 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.77 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.