Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: People who try to acquire more than one skill are more likely to become successful than people who just focus on one skill?
All creatures rely on certain skills to survive in the world. Human beings are not exceptional. There are no other creatures on the earth able to compete with us regarding the number of skills mastered. A controversy, however, has been existing for centuries between people full of various talents and people who concentrate only on a single specialty. Some attach greater benefits to the general education and admire figures like Aristotle, while others lay more emphasis on focused study. There is no universally agreed upon ideas whose opinion is superior to another’s, but rather that those who are equipped with various skills and proficient at a certain field in the meanwhile are more likely to success.
On the one hand, there are many basic skills that anyone who dreams of a bright future ought to be equipped with. Among them are cooking, washing, speaking, reading, writing, and so forth. All those basic skills lay a fundamental for individual father development. Without those skills, one will have difficulties even in living on, not to mention success. How can you expect an illiterate person who wears mess clothes, speaks a mouthful of dirty words to success? Impossible! Another skill I want to highlight is the second language. Almost all modern citizens are able to use a second language, which serves as an evidence of its great importance. Although I don’t major in English, the ability of speaking and writing English definitely provided me more opportunities to pursue success in career and to make more friends. After all, it does no harm to acquire as many useful skills as you can.
In addition, acquiring a large number of skills has once made certain individuals a great success. A case in point is associated with Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher. He researched on all scientific fields that existed at that time and contributed greatly to most of them. As a result, his combined works constitute a virtual encyclopedia of Greek knowledge. But, this has become history.
On the other hand, it is a wise choice today to select a single promising specialty and dive into it. After dozens of centuries of accumulation, especially in an era of knowledge explosion, no one can master all the skills and knowledge human has deposited. Aristotle-like marvels are not going to happen again, because being an expert even in one realm often takes a person several decades. But fortunately, being proficient at a single field, of course on top of mastering compulsory living skills, is more than sufficient to ensure success. To illustrate this, I want to cite an example of William, one of my schoolmates. He was hired by Google after graduation, as a result of his brilliant skills in C++ programming. What’s more amazing is that C++ is the only one programming language he mastered. Now, he always boasts his pleasing life in Bay Area. You won’t believe what concentrating on one skill can bring to a person.
With reference to the subjects mentioned above, there should be no prejudice against either of these two attitude towards learning skills. As far as I’m concerned, both a well capture of all kinds of basic skills and the domination in a certain realm is prerequisites for success.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 24, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...ls as you can. In addition, acquiring a large number of skills has once made certain individual...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, regarding, second, so, well, while, after all, in addition, of course, as a result, with reference to, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 43.0788530466 79% => OK
Preposition: 84.0 52.1666666667 161% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2714.0 1977.66487455 137% => OK
No of words: 539.0 407.700716846 132% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03525046382 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81833721656 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8736050812 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 306.0 212.727598566 144% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567717996289 0.524837075471 108% => OK
syllable_count: 864.0 618.680645161 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.994623655914 101% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.6003584229 150% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.8265831657 48.9658058833 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.5483870968 100.406767564 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3870967742 20.6045352989 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.45161290323 5.45110844103 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.328104602282 0.236089414692 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0682513400222 0.076458572812 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0526232993446 0.0737576698707 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158854239097 0.150856017488 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0761430779013 0.0645574589148 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 11.7677419355 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 58.1214874552 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 10.9000537634 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 146.0 86.8835125448 168% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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