Collectors prize the ancient life-size clay statues of human figures made on Kali Island but have long wondered how Kalinese artists were able to depict bodies with such realistic precision. Since archaeologists have recently discovered molds of human heads and hands on Kali, we can now conclude that the ancient Kalinese artists used molds of actual bodies, not sculpting tools and techniques, to create these statues. This discovery explains why Kalinese miniature statues were abstract and entirely different in style: molds could be used only for life-size sculptures. It also explains why few ancient Kalinese sculpting tools have been found. In light of this discovery, collectors predict that the life-size sculptures will decrease in value while the miniatures increase in value.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
In this essay, collectors are predicting that the value of life-size ancient Kalinese sculptures will decrease while miniatures will increase due to the discovery of molds of human hands and heads by archaeologists in Kali. They present the difference in style between miniature and life-sized statues as well as the lack of Kalinese sculpting tools found as evidence for this prediction. I believe there are three questions that must be answered before considering this prediction a reasonable one.
The first question is, how do we know for sure that these molds were used to make all the life-size statues? It is possible that the artists only used the molds as some sort of basis before hand-making the statues. Maybe, some section of artists used these molds but others stuck to make their clay statues entirely by hand. If either of these proved true, it would mean that this prediction would become quite baseless, since there will still be valuable handmade life-size Kalinese statues in existence.
The second question is, why does the scarcity of ancient Kalinese sculpting tools imply that there were no specialised sculpting tools or techniques used in the creation of these statues? Perhaps, the tools that were utilised for making these statues have perished over the centuries. It is also possible that there were specialised techniques for making these statues, either using molds or otherwise that were only passed down in oral form and thus are not documented. If either of these was true, this lack of ancient sculpting tools would not be able to support this prediction, thus, weakening it.
The third question is, why would this discovery necessarily lead to an increase in the price of miniature Kalinese clay sculptures? While the miniature statues are abstract and the difference in style seems to point towards them being entirely handmade vis a vis the life size statues, it does not necessarily mean that they have become more valuable. Maybe, this discovery would actually fuel public interest in the life-size Kalinese statues, leading to an increase in the price of these statues instead. It is also possible that the miniature statues are not quite as well finished as the life-sized ones, being too abstract for the average person to prefer these over the life-sized ones, irrespective of the techniques utilised to create the statues. If either of these stands true, it would mean that the prediction of increase in price of miniature Kalinese statues is not very well substantiated.
In conclusion, the prediction as it stands is flawed and is not a reasonable one. If answers to these three questions could be provided along with supporting evidence, it would be easier to effectively evaluate if this prediction is reasonable or not.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 7 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 454 350
No. of Characters: 2274 1500
No. of Different Words: 184 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.616 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.009 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.625 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 151 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 129 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 98 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.222 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.254 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.889 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.362 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.362 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.134 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... this prediction is reasonable or not.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, may, second, so, still, third, thus, well, while, in conclusion, sort of, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 28.8173652695 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2324.0 2260.96107784 103% => OK
No of words: 454.0 441.139720559 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11894273128 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61598047577 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67395437897 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.418502202643 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 737.1 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.6106807026 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.111111111 119.503703932 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2222222222 23.324526521 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.44444444444 5.70786347227 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.196678685936 0.218282227539 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0712201895399 0.0743258471296 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.049119736824 0.0701772020484 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112656577188 0.128457276422 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0547047646873 0.0628817314937 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 14.3799401198 106% => 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: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.62 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 98.500998004 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => 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
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