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.
The author has cited some facts and come to the conclusion that a particular type of basket, once presumed to be unique to Palean people is not entirely so. However, the argument presented by the author is rife with holes and unwarranted assumptions, and thus, not strong enough to buttress the preceded conclusion.
The author's conclusion is based on a questionable assumption that by no means the Palean basket could have landed ashore on the Lithos's side. However, it is plausible that the baskets could have ended there due to various other reasons. For all we know, the baskets could have floated over the river to the other side, or were sold by a Palean merchant to a buyer from Lithos. Also, just because an item is found somewhere doesn't necessarily mean that it was made there.
Additionally, the author implies that the Paleans didn't have boats to cross the river, as no evidence of their presence has been found till date. Perhaps they had boats but those couldn't survive through time, or that the remains could have been washed by the Brim river and deposited at some distant location, which has not yet been explored by researchers. There simply isn't sufficient evidence in the argument to utterly negate the existence of Palean boats. Also, it is possible that the people of Lithos had boats, and that they sailed over to the Palean side and traded with them. A proper approach to validating this information would be to carry out a search for the remains of Lithian boats.
Furthermore, the is no significant information about the Brim river in the argument. Perhaps the river came into existence by some geographical phenomenon post this period. If the broad and deep river wasn't there demarcrating the ancient villages of Palea and Lithos, people then wouldn't require boats to travel from one village to the other in the first place. It would be more prudent to ascertain the history of the river before implying the necessity of boats.
In sum, various important avenues are left unexplored in the argument, due to which the conclusion seems feeble. It would be wise to address those areas prior to setting any firm conclusion on the matter.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'in the first place']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.212814645309 0.25644967241 83% => OK
Verbs: 0.162471395881 0.15541462614 105% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0869565217391 0.0836205057962 104% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0617848970252 0.0520304965353 119% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0228832951945 0.0272364105082 84% => OK
Prepositions: 0.102974828375 0.125424944231 82% => OK
Participles: 0.0549199084668 0.0416121511921 132% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.72148205445 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0411899313501 0.026700313972 154% => OK
Particles: 0.00228832951945 0.001811407834 126% => OK
Determiners: 0.12585812357 0.113004496875 111% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0160183066362 0.0255425247493 63% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0045766590389 0.0127820249294 36% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2219.0 2731.13054187 81% => OK
No of words: 370.0 446.07635468 83% => OK
Chars per words: 5.9972972973 6.12365571057 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38581623665 4.57801047555 96% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.340540540541 0.378187486979 90% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.248648648649 0.287650121315 86% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.164864864865 0.208842608468 79% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.116216216216 0.135150697306 86% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72148205445 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 207.018472906 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545945945946 0.469332199767 116% => OK
Word variations: 60.6871238241 52.1807786196 116% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 20.039408867 85% => OK
Sentence length: 21.7647058824 23.2022227129 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.9352936616 57.7814097925 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.529411765 141.986410481 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7647058824 23.2022227129 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.588235294118 0.724660767414 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.58251231527 0% => OK
Readability: 46.6295707472 51.9672348444 90% => OK
Elegance: 1.5 1.8405768891 81% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.422715353786 0.441005458295 96% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.117950451861 0.135418324435 87% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0640604905536 0.0829849096947 77% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.623609440044 0.58762219726 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.122716760051 0.147661913831 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.18689651894 0.193483328276 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0649807171839 0.0970749176394 67% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.425810227679 0.42659136922 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0980449305443 0.0774707102158 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.278820090094 0.312017818177 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0657575712261 0.0698173142475 94% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.33743842365 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.87684729064 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.82512315271 187% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 2.0 6.46551724138 31% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 5.36822660099 75% => OK
Neutral topic words: 7.0 2.82389162562 248% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 14.657635468 89% => OK
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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