The best ideas arise from a passionate interest in commonplace things.
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.
The best ideas are the ones that solve the persistent problems that people face in everyday life. Starting from everyday transport, cooking, to sleeping in comfort, simple ideas changed the lives of people and made it more sophisticated. The prompt suggests that the best ideas arise from a passionate interest in commonplace things and I agree with it. However, there do exist certain revolutionary ideas which were unique and did not stem from avidity in common things, yet, most of the great ideas do come from common problems and I would like to support my stance with the following examples.
In the past decades, there have been many inventions that have made the life of people easier, but there always seems to be some kind of issue persistently and the best ideas are mostly the solutions for such quotidian issues. A common example would be a chair. Chairs were invented centuries ago and were usually used only by the nobility. But years after, their uses found its way into everyday lives and people started using chairs everywhere. And one person was clever enough to notice that, to move these chairs, one has to get up, pick it up and place it in another place. And so that person came up with an idea to fix wheels under the chair to move the chair wherever one goes without even getting up from it. Further, some people developed portable chairs that were capable of being folded into a small object and can be opened wherever required. Such great solutions could have originated only because of the interest of those inventors in commonplace things.
Another example would be a website called trivago which is for booking hotels online. Currently, several websites do this but what makes trivago different is, it compares the prices from all the other websites available and shows the cheapest price to the user. This is not even a creative idea, it's just comparing different values from different places and throwing out the cheapest value, a basic algorithm, but it does solve a huge issue that people face: Where can I book a hotel at the cheapest price? And what more, the website has produced millions in revenues.
While there do exist some innovations such as computers, which was not an idea out of commonplace things but to convert the PC to a laptop did arise from it. By just noticing the rudimentary things in everyday life, it can be adapted into solving age-old issues. One just needs the zeal to identify the problems and a bit of imagination to come up with ideas and a bit more hard work to get that idea in everyone's hands.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, while, as to, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 12.9106741573 8% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2122.0 2235.4752809 95% => OK
No of words: 447.0 442.535393258 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74720357942 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40061734357 2.79657885939 86% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512304250559 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 684.0 704.065955056 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.1017081919 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.684210526 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5263157895 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.73684210526 5.21951772744 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.155053841597 0.243740707755 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0530570476967 0.0831039109588 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0694984922706 0.0758088955206 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107287795405 0.150359130593 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0656971002854 0.0667264976115 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.1392134831 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.57 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 100.480337079 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, while, as to, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 12.9106741573 8% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2122.0 2235.4752809 95% => OK
No of words: 447.0 442.535393258 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74720357942 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40061734357 2.79657885939 86% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512304250559 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 684.0 704.065955056 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.1017081919 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.684210526 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5263157895 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.73684210526 5.21951772744 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.155053841597 0.243740707755 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0530570476967 0.0831039109588 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0694984922706 0.0758088955206 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107287795405 0.150359130593 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0656971002854 0.0667264976115 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.1392134831 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.57 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 100.480337079 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.