In any field of endeavor it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement

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In any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

In any field, there are historical moments when a person or a group of people contributes to the realm by making a groundbreaking achievement. Some people, like the speaker of the given statement, may argue that such contribution is possible only when one is influenced by the past achievements within the field. However, I argue that such process does not necessarily to involve strong influence of the field of endeavor for the following reasons.

Firstly, given this fast changing modern society, it is possible to make contribution without considering so carefully about the past achievements. ...

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Average: 7.4 (5 votes)
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'second', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'therefore', 'well', 'as to', 'at least', 'for example', 'such as']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.210720887246 0.240241500013 88% => OK
Verbs: 0.162661737523 0.157235817809 103% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0924214417745 0.0880659088768 105% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0646950092421 0.0497285424764 130% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0388170055453 0.0444667217837 87% => OK
Prepositions: 0.105360443623 0.12292977631 86% => OK
Participles: 0.0609981515712 0.0406280797675 150% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.04727810468 2.79330140395 109% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0462107208872 0.030933414821 149% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0961182994455 0.0997080785238 96% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0129390018484 0.0249443105267 52% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0166358595194 0.0148568991511 112% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2970.0 2732.02544248 109% => OK
No of words: 481.0 452.878318584 106% => OK
Chars per words: 6.17463617464 6.0361032391 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68313059816 4.58838876751 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.378378378378 0.366273622748 103% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.282744282744 0.280924506359 101% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.239085239085 0.200843997647 119% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.149688149688 0.132149295362 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04727810468 2.79330140395 109% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 219.290929204 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484407484407 0.48968727796 99% => OK
Word variations: 55.6519971991 55.4138127331 100% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6194690265 92% => OK
Sentence length: 25.3157894737 23.380412469 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.4426939854 59.4972553346 58% => OK
Chars per sentence: 156.315789474 141.124799967 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3157894737 23.380412469 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.947368421053 0.674092028746 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.21349557522 0% => OK
Readability: 53.5902177481 51.4728631049 104% => OK
Elegance: 1.41666666667 1.64882698954 86% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.469505318403 0.391690518653 120% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.100276495339 0.123202303941 81% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0693795816132 0.077325440228 90% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.555629701555 0.547984918172 101% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.112214508844 0.149214159877 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.191596549545 0.161403998019 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0754637301864 0.0892212321368 85% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.386023785462 0.385218514788 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.048488894829 0.0692045440612 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.331454199754 0.275328986314 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0449822210372 0.0653680567796 69% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.4325221239 77% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.30420353982 57% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88274336283 164% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.70907079646 185% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 13.5995575221 110% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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arguments: OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 481 350
No. of Characters: 2416 1500
No. of Different Words: 227 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.683 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.023 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.934 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 170 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 131 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 101 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 64 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.316 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.867 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.737 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.324 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.543 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.12 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5