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 Palean people. Recently, however, archaeologists discovered such a “Palean” basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brain 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. Therefore it follows that the so-called Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean.
Author made the conclusion that the so-called Palean baskets, found previously only in the village Palea, are not uniquely the Palean, basically on the fact that there were no Plaean boats found yet without which no Palenas cross the river, Brain in order to go to the Lithos. The conclusion is based on inadequate evidences and is not plausible.
Firstly, writer made conclusion just by assuming boats are only the medium to cross the river and absence of boat signified that the Palean baskets found in another village called Lithos are not those baskets found in Palea so Plaean baskets are not ...
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- better: maybe the Brim River is not deep and broad at the ancient time.
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- not OK. the topic said: 'no Palean boats have been found', but people from other villages may have boats.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 420 350
No. of Characters: 2034 1500
No. of Different Words: 182 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.527 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.843 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.493 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 133 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 43 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.239 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.688 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.37 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.589 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.095 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 698, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...os are necessarily uniquely the Palean. Furthermore, without having the proper i...
^^^
Line 3, column 622, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...p it is. The author totally excluded the possibility that such bags were sent to ...
^^
Line 3, column 709, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...s from Palia through such animal means. Hence without having detailed knowledge of si...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, furthermore, hence, if, may, so, while
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 : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2085.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 420.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96428571429 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58739640979 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.457142857143 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 660.6 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.5855039446 57.8364921388 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.3125 119.503703932 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.25 23.324526521 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.375 5.70786347227 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.203774378172 0.218282227539 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0682395669295 0.0743258471296 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0613206929941 0.0701772020484 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128625517331 0.128457276422 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.04695983712 0.0628817314937 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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
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