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 concludes, the assumption that- a special type of woven basket which once was thought to be used by only Palean people, has proved wrong. As recently archaeologists found evidence of using similar type basket in Lithos which is separated from Palea by a deep, broad Brim River and no evidence of Palean boat refutes the “Unique Palean Basket” theorem. However, two two evidences need to be considered before coming into such a conclusion.
First of all, the record of time difference between the trend of woven basket usuage in Lithos and the inception of boat transport by Palean people is required. If the villagers in Lithos began to use the basket before the Palean learnt to make boat, then it can certainly be said that, the baskets were not uniquely Palean. Otherwise, it is possible that the unique Palean baskets were transported from Palea to Lithos via boat. Though it is stated that, no evidence of Palean boat has been found, it is not correct to say that Palean people didn’t use boat at all. They might have used boat, but the evidence hasn’t been found yet.
Secondly, the evidence of any major natural calamities like earthquake that could change the geographic pattern should be found out. It may be the case that, a devastating earthquake or other disasters has changed the land structure and made a passage for water flow which eventually turned into a mighty river. If this scenario proves to be true, then we may say that, there was an easy communication between these two groups and the people of Lithos took the idea of woven basket from Palean.
So it is apparent that, without reasoning out the two above evidences, the conclusion of this argument can not be accepted undoubtedly. The above mentioned evidences or even other relevant historical documents can validate whether the woven baskets were uniquely Palean or not.
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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: 13 15
No. of Words: 319 350
No. of Characters: 1507 1500
No. of Different Words: 164 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.226 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.724 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.465 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 110 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 67 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 49 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.538 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.001 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.379 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.598 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.129 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 225, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...evidence of using similar type basket in Lithos which is separated from Palea by ...
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Line 1, column 386, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: two
...e Palean Basket' theorem. However, two two evidences need to be considered before ...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1574.0 2260.96107784 70% => OK
No of words: 317.0 441.139720559 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.96529968454 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60751838843 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.545741324921 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 498.6 705.55239521 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.4062440611 57.8364921388 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.076923077 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3846153846 23.324526521 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.38461538462 5.70786347227 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198369532779 0.218282227539 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0790082316066 0.0743258471296 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0462686796539 0.0701772020484 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112302641072 0.128457276422 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0529053628069 0.0628817314937 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 98.500998004 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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