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 author’s conclusion that Woven baskets initially attributed to Palean people were not uniquely Palean seems convincing at the first glance. However, the argument fails to address the misgivings arises from the deep analysis of the evidences and the consequent conclusion and hence not a truly compelling argument.
Firstly, the author presents the evidence that the Brim river in between two ancient villages Lithos and Palean was broad and deep that it was impossible to cross without boat and such boat were not found near the Palean village. Even though it seems to serve the conclusion to be cogent, the assumption that author made upon this is fallacious. The author assumes that the only way to get through to the village Lithos is to cross the Brim river; however there may be a roundabout way to the village Lithos that could have allowed people to trade between two villages and such baskets might have been reached Lithos. So, further evidence is essential to increase the credibility of the argument.
Secondly, the author of the article believes that no evidences of palean boat guaranteed that there were no Palean boats in existence; however, through the passage of time such Palean boats might have been rotten or the flood in the Brim river might have washed them away. So, the author fails to provide necessary explanation to believe his conclusion.
Finally, the author himself states that woven baskets were first found in vicinity of Palean village and again he states that recently archaeologist found such basket in Lithos. Here, the author assumes that there were no activities between these two time periods. It is possible that a bridge might have been built in the Brim river, allowing villagers to engage in several activities of trade and cultural exchange. And as a result, such baskets might have made their way to the Lithos village.
In summation, as explained above, the assumptions in which the authors based his conclusions are wrong. Without further explanation and evidences, the argument cannot be truly convincing.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 176, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... it was impossible to cross without boat and such boat were not found near the Pa...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, may, second, secondly, so, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 58.6224719101 73% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1731.0 2235.4752809 77% => OK
No of words: 338.0 442.535393258 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12130177515 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28774723029 4.55969084622 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54902046666 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 215.323595506 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.458579881657 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 536.4 704.065955056 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 6.24550561798 16% => OK
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.2370786517 69% => 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: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.7546594527 60.3974514979 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.642857143 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1428571429 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.21951772744 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 10.2758426966 29% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.245065385247 0.243740707755 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0781481143139 0.0831039109588 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.069619937491 0.0758088955206 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131863933563 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0792164320729 0.0667264976115 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 100.480337079 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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