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 that woven basket baskets of a particular style which were preciously found only in Palean village are not unique because they are recently found in Lithos village too. However, the argument can be properly evaluated if author provides evidence to following two specifics.
The author assumes that The Brim River was very deep and broad and it could be crossed only by boat which is not found yet. But it is possible that even though there may be not a short land way to directly go from Palean to Lithos there might be a round- about path through which traveler could travel. Further possibility is, people may have travelled by boat but the boat is yet to be discovered. If any of these scenarios has merit, then the conclusion drawn from current argument is significantly weakened.
Moreover, the author assumes that Lithos had only their native people. There could be Palean people in Lithos who may have made the basket. So, the baskets found in Lithos may be made by those Palean people living there. This may attribute that the maker of the basket be only Palean people. If this is found true, the argument does not hold water.
In conclusion, the argument, as it stands now, is not flawless due to its reliance on unwarranted evidence. If the author provides evidence to these two analyses (perhaps from a systematic study approach) then it can be evaluated that Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean.
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Comments
e-rater score report
flaws:
No. of Words: 247 350
Minimum 250 words wanted
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 247 350
No. of Characters: 1160 1500
No. of Different Words: 128 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.964 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.696 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.354 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 83 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 53 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 39 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 17 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.39 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.846 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.375 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.59 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.083 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 109, 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.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 55.5748502994 43% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1199.0 2260.96107784 53% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 247.0 441.139720559 56% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.85425101215 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96437052324 4.56307096286 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41708881642 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 204.123752495 64% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.53036437247 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 376.2 705.55239521 53% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => 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: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.4535945746 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.2307692308 119.503703932 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.30769230769 5.70786347227 75% => 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 : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.208036008369 0.218282227539 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0848749741929 0.0743258471296 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0827753792511 0.0701772020484 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138528043297 0.128457276422 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0719453018114 0.0628817314937 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 14.3799401198 76% => 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: 10.85 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 98.500998004 52% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => 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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