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 writer here is making some grave fallacious assumptions, and these assumptions being very critical, the argument made by the writer doesn’t hold good. Also, on the basis of the information used in making the conclusion, the writer’s argument lacks strength and seems implausible.
The argument can be easily debunked as many wrong assumptions, negligence to consider other important aspects are visible in the writer’s thesis. The argument seems parochial and more broader analysis was required before making the said assumption. The writer firsty says that a “single Palean style basket” was found in Lithos. So,finding a single basket doesn’t necessarily mean that the basket was designed by the people in Lithos, maybe it had arrived to Lithos from Palea via some other place. Say, that particular basket might have been traded from Palea to some other distant place. From that distant place, the basket might have been brought to Lithos. Also, there might have existed a trade wherein, large number of Palean baskets were traded in some other major market place. This major market might have been the source for the transport of the Palean baskets to Lithos.
Likewise, the writer says no Palean boat has been found yet but, he fails to mention anything about the navigating capabilities of the Lithos’s residents. Lithos might have had a strong naval structure which might have facilitated trade across the two cities of Palea and Lithos. It must also be argued that if no boat has been found yet doesn’t necessarily mean that the Paleans were not navigators. Maybe their boats might have been destroyed in some calamity or their Naval base might have been at some distant place. This assumption that Paleans didn’t use boats needs more evidence for support.
The writer could have strengthened his argument by providing other crucial information such as whether the Lithos had boats or not. Also, writer fails to mention whether any longer route of transport via some other major centre existed or not. In addition, no consideration is made of the fact that a single basket found cannot mean that the basket was not Palean. The instance of indirect transfer from Palea to a market and from that market to Lithos is not at all considered by the writer.
Therefore, it can be concluded that the writer errs by making many false assumptions which frustrate the argument from being valid. Non-consideration of many other important factors also pulls back the writer’s argument. Thus, the argument made by the writer seems implausible.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, likewise, may, so, then, therefore, thus, in addition, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2179.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 418.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21291866029 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72155553694 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.447368421053 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 665.1 705.55239521 94% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.2558180976 57.8364921388 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 99.0454545455 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.81818181818 5.70786347227 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.174768844522 0.218282227539 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0684000903941 0.0743258471296 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0668953756311 0.0701772020484 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0943138932013 0.128457276422 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0761016410485 0.0628817314937 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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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