The following appeared in an article written by Dr. Karp, an anthropologist.
"Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia and concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. However, my recent interviews with children living in the group of islands that includes Tertia show that these children spend much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. This research of mine proves that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture is invalid and thus that the observation-centered approach to studying cultures is invalid as well. The interview-centered method that my team of graduate students is currently using in Tertia will establish a much more accurate understanding of child-rearing traditions there and in other island cultures.
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.
Dr. Karp, an anthropologist, asserts that Dr. Field’s attempt to understand the child-rearing traditions of Tertia through observation were inaccurate. Dr. Karp also goes on to say that observation-centered approaches in general are invalid, and that interview-centered approaches provide more accurate understanding of cultures. The anthropologist uses the results of his interviews, stating that children in Tertia talk about their biological parents more than the adults in the village, which contradicts the findings of Dr. Field. Dr. Karp relies on assumptions with no clear evidence, and extrapolates the results of one study to fit the needs of every study of every culture.
First, the anthropologist fails to recognize that Tertia may not be the same today as it was 20 years ago. Twenty years ago, the children of Tertia may have been raised by other adults in the village, while today they are raised by their biological parents. Dr. Karp also assumes that because the children of Tertia talk about their biological parents during the interview, that they are not raised by other villagers. The children could very well know both their biological parents as well as adult villagers, but be raised by the villagers. The anthropologist provides no evidence to support these assumptions, which leaves room for doubt in the validity of his statements.
Dr. Karp assumes that cultures cannot be accurately understood through observation, and that all cultures can be accurately understood through interviews. Several cultures taught about today have only been observed, and thus cannot be understood any other way. Just because Dr. Karp’s interviews provided crucial information about the child-rearing traditions of Tertia, does not mean interviews will provide crucial information for all cultures.
This argument can be thoroughly strengthened if he were to include concise evidence to back up his statements. He may be correct in his assumptions, but no support is given, which alters Dr. Karp’s credibility. He should study the history of Tertia, to see if the child-rearing traditions were always this way, or if they have changed over the years. Dr. Karp could also perform research on other cultures, and study how this culture had been studied previously, either by observation or by interview-centered approaches. Allowing the readers of Dr. Karp’s article to view data and analyses may result in more supporters of interview-centered research.
In conclusion, Dr. Karp states that Dr. Field’s observations of the children of Tertia were invalid, and thus all observational research on different cultures is invalid. Dr. Karp believes that interview-based research will provide for more accurate understanding of not only Tertia, but all cultures. He may be correct in his assertions, but there is a lack of conclusive evidence and several generalizations made about cultures in general, which take away from the article’s impact.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 484, Rule ID: BOTH_AS_WELL_AS[1]
Message: Probable usage error. Use 'and' after 'both'.
Suggestion: and
...well know both their biological parents as well as adult villagers, but be raised by the v...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, so, then, thus, well, while, in conclusion, in general, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2533.0 2260.96107784 112% => OK
No of words: 458.0 441.139720559 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.53056768559 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62611441266 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.33122879668 2.78398813304 120% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.449781659389 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 761.4 705.55239521 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 11.0 1.67365269461 657% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.3023463224 57.8364921388 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 126.65 119.503703932 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.65 5.70786347227 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.314435438465 0.218282227539 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107782679422 0.0743258471296 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.090745271716 0.0701772020484 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189861653554 0.128457276422 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0767321513262 0.0628817314937 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.3799401198 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.09 12.5979740519 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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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