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 author concludes that the so-called Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean as archaeologists discovered such a "Palean" basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea, which is a very deep and broad river and no Palean boats have been found. However, the argument is based on some unwarranted assumptions. These following three cases must be evaluated first before making such a conclusion.
First of all, it is important to determine whether ‘a’ Palean basket in Lithos is representative of all the Palean baskets. The author assumes that only one basket is enough to make the conclusion of the argument. However, only one basket is not a sufficient proof for the case that inhabitants of Lithos made that. If the inhabitants of Lithos could really made Palean baskets, then why only one basket would be found by the archaeologists? There must be abundance of Palean baskets. If the author can’t provide evidence for this case, then the argument will be seriously flawed.
Secondly, it is important to determine whether the inhabitants of Lithos, the ancient village, used boats to communicate with the prehistoric village of Palea. The author prematurely assumes that only Palean people used boats. However, this may not be the case. People from Lithos village can go to the village of Palea and bring that basket as a gift for the people of Lithos. If the author can’t provide evidence for this case, the argument will not hold water.
Last, but not least, it is important to evaluate whether the Palean people used water transports other than boats to cross the deep river. The author assumes that boat is the only medium to cross the river. However, this may not be the case. The Palean people can cross the river with the help of other type of transports to cross the river. If the author can’t provide evidence for this, the argument will be seriously flawed.
In conclusion, the argument, as it stands, is seriously flawed as it is based on some unstated assumptions which are unwarranted. If the author can provide evidence of the three stated cases above, then the conclusion can be considered for evaluation otherwise it will remain as seriously weakened.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 370 350
No. of Characters: 1779 1500
No. of Different Words: 131 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.386 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.808 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.538 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 130 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 78 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 53 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.619 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.516 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.351 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.526 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.066 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 115, 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
...alean as archaeologists discovered such a 'Palean' basket in Lithos, an...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, then, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1859.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 370.0 441.139720559 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02432432432 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38581623665 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70873515964 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 204.123752495 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.410810810811 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 579.6 705.55239521 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
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: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 53.4701900547 57.8364921388 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.5238095238 119.503703932 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.619047619 23.324526521 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.42857142857 5.70786347227 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.178482725601 0.218282227539 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0575225615147 0.0743258471296 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0630315069656 0.0701772020484 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10535646395 0.128457276422 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0657370403981 0.0628817314937 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.3799401198 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.54 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.13 8.32208582834 86% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 98.500998004 63% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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