Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently, however, archa

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Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently, however, archaeologists discovered such a "Palean" basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea. The Brim River is very deep and broad, and so the ancient Paleans could have crossed it only by boat, and no Palean boats have been found. Thus it follows that the so-called Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean.

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 argument states about the development of woven baskets made by Palean people in some places around Palea area. However, there are some flaws which cast doubt about the authenticity of the argument. If the author wants to strength the argument he should provide more strong evidence about it.

The first flaw occurs when the author states that the only people who developed baskets were those who were from Palea, then only these people had the skills to devise baskets. However, this contradicts with what he says that Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean because he acknowledges that there may be another village where people might have made baskets. In order not to be ambiguous, the argument would be unfeeble to say that Palean baskets were originated from Palea village.
The second flaw appears when the author talks about the discovery made by archaeologists in another village. If the baskets were made only by Palean people, there is no way to say that baskets were found in Lithos. This is due because there are no evidences of people crossing the Brim river due to the fact that there are not Palean boats found in that village.

To summ up, if the author of the argument wants to strengthen it, he should provide more strong evidences which validated it.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 203, 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.
...about the authenticity of the argument. If the author wants to strength the argume...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, second, so, then

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 0.0 11.1786427146 0% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 55.5748502994 52% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1059.0 2260.96107784 47% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 218.0 441.139720559 49% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.85779816514 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.84250218741 4.56307096286 84% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.29750581104 2.78398813304 83% => OK
Unique words: 103.0 204.123752495 50% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47247706422 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 334.8 705.55239521 47% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => 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: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => 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: 31.4847582173 57.8364921388 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 105.9 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.1 5.70786347227 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21725105183 0.218282227539 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0924179683544 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0874052299503 0.0701772020484 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119163916631 0.128457276422 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0847418824437 0.0628817314937 135% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.14 8.32208582834 86% => OK
difficult_words: 34.0 98.500998004 35% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum 250 words wanted.

Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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