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.
Earlier it was believed that, woven baskets with some kind of designs were native to the prehistoric village of Palea. However, one such basket was found near an ancient village of Lithos. Author argues that such woven baskets are not unique to only the village Palea, based on some evidence. Initially, the argument seems plausible, but evidence lacks coherence. So, more research is needed to prove that the author’s argument is correct.
Argument lacks geographic details about Palea and Lithos. It does not provide any record about other means of transportation between Palea and Lithos like the possibility that both villages connected by a part of land, So it would be possible to travel without the rive or boats. If there is some evidence which proves that, there are alternate ways connecting between Palea and Lithos, the argument fails miserably.
Moreover, only one basket is found in Lithos. A single basket is not enough to prove that the people in Lithos used to wave or such baskets. The basket could have been displaced there at some time later in the history and we are just finding it there. This is discovery needs to be investigated further before making any conclusions.
There could have been a possibility of trade and commerce between Palea and Lithos and this possibility is not mentioned by the author. If, there was a possible trade between both villages, people from Palea could have sold them to people in Lithos or Palean people could have taught people of Lithos, how to wave those baskets. If there is some evidence that proves a possible commercial relationship between Lithos and Palea, author’s argument does not stand anymore.
It is also possible that, in the course of long time, Palean people migrated to Lithos, which means that people of Lithos are a new generation of Palea. Thus proving that woven baskets are unique to village of Palea. If, there is such evidence, author’s argument fails to draw a correct conclusion.
To conclude, author’s evidence has some discrepancies, it does not shed light on some areas. Without further investigation into history and the given evidences it's difficult to draw conclusion about uniqueness of woven basket.
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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: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 364 350
No. of Characters: 1783 1500
No. of Different Words: 162 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.368 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.898 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.452 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 130 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 87 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 56 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 28 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.2 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.109 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.341 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.586 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.117 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 70, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... woven baskets with some kind of designs were native to the prehistoric village ...
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Line 1, column 76, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... baskets with some kind of designs were native to the prehistoric village of Pal...
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Line 3, column 70, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ails about Palea and Lithos. It does not provide any record about other means of ...
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Line 3, column 263, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... it would be possible to travel without the rive or boats. If there is some evidence whi...
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Line 7, column 92, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...mmerce between Palea and Lithos and this possibility is not mentioned by the auth...
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Line 7, column 176, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
.... If, there was a possible trade between both villages, people from Palea could h...
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Line 7, column 457, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...os and Palea, author’s argument does not stand anymore. It is also possible th...
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Line 11, column 177, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...and the given evidences its difficult to draw conclusion about uniqueness of wove...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, moreover, so, thus, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1853.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 364.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09065934066 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36792674256 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57239550478 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.467032967033 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 588.6 705.55239521 83% => 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: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.7447203589 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.65 119.503703932 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2 23.324526521 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.55 5.70786347227 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.67664670659 235% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224301546165 0.218282227539 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0757589182633 0.0743258471296 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0676953306643 0.0701772020484 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121593684249 0.128457276422 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0610567401662 0.0628817314937 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 98.500998004 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => 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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