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.
According to the author, the woven basket found on ancient city of Lithos is not a Paean basket. Some evidences have served as basis for the conclusion of the author of the letter. However, these evidences need further evaluation as it is rife with uncertainties.
Citing the geological feature of brim river and absence of Paean boat as evidences, The author asserts that the basket found in Lithos cannot be originated from Paean city. According to him, the deep water and sheer wideness of the brim river requires boat so that Paleans can cross to Lithos, but no Paean boats were ever found; thus, there is no way that Paean basket was ever transported to the other side. However, the author never considers the geological evolution that bodies of water undergo. It may be possible that during ancient times the brim river was just a regular stream or a thin, shallow river where Paleans can cross and distribute the basket by foot or by crossing simple wooden bridge. Yet over time, as the water volume increases due to climactic or geological phenomena, the river becomes wider and deeper. But to that time, the civilizations in both sides are no longer present; thus, a boat was never necessary in the first place. Consequently, the excavators did not find any Paean boat. Through Intricate archaeological investigation on the brim river, it will give the author an in-depth understanding to its ancient feature and finally understand why no Palean boat was ever found.
On the other hand, if the features of Brim River at the time of excavation are almost exactly the same as it was in ancient times, it may be possible that the people from Lithos were the ones that have crossed by boat and introduced the basket to Paleans instead. In effect, it was pointless to raise the absence of Paean boats as evidence in justifying the basket is not uniquely Paean when it is possible that it wasn’t the Paleans that crossed the river to begin with. Further excavation and scientific investigation may confirm whether the conclusion is warranted or not.
Furthermore, the fact that the basket was only discovered on the immediate vicinity in Palea as compared to the late discovery in Lithos may suggest that the baskets from the former are more recent than the similar baskets from the latter. With this in hand, it may be considered that it may not originate from Palea but from Lithos instead. Using carbon dating, a scientific technique, on the artefacts will help the author to determine which city it originates to.
In sum, evidences gathered by the archaeological expedition are not conclusive to support that the conclusion that the Paean basket found in Lithos did not originate from the city of Palea. In fact, the evaluation of evidence results an interesting possibility such that the distinct basket may rather introduced by people of Lithos to Paleans. Through further scientific investigation and wider excavation, the author will reach a warranted conclusion.
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- 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, arch
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, thus, in fact, to begin with, in the first place, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2492.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 503.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95427435388 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73578520332 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69660638349 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 204.123752495 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.439363817097 0.468620217663 94% => OK
syllable_count: 785.7 705.55239521 111% => 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: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.22255489022 237% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.8901285689 57.8364921388 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.6 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.15 23.324526521 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.85 5.70786347227 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.121564990359 0.218282227539 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0402118176976 0.0743258471296 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0391855289762 0.0701772020484 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0816832140733 0.128457276422 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0226852538729 0.0628817314937 36% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.3799401198 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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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