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.
The author asserts that in any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field and I agree with the author on this claim as I believe that to make any significant contribution in a field, it is important to have as much knowledge about the field as possible. The following points will elucidate my perspective.
Firstly, I believe that to make a significant contributionin any field, a person should have knowledge about how the field has burgeoned, how the field has grown into what it is today so as to give the person a clearer view about where the field stands today. Once a person has been influenced by the past achievements he or she will understand where the scope of further development lies and where can they work so as to make a contribution to the field. It is important to know what has already been achieved and how it has been achieved so as to be better equiped with the proper knowledge on how to contribute to that field of endeavor.
Secondly, by being influenced by the past achievements within the field, the person gets a better knowledge and a better feel of that field of endeavor. The person can relate to the field better and while working further to make a significant contribution to the field, they can be better inspired by the people that have paved the way for them to come this far in their field of endeavor. They can draw on the struggles or achievements of their predecessors and shape their own thoughts according to that and innovate and contribute to the field. A very simple and relatable example for this is the field of medicine. The field of medicine is also ever improving with the technological advancements and whenever the doctors are faced with a patient that they can't figure out how to treat, it is not uncommon for them to resort to case studies of similar cases and draw inspiration from them so as to treat their patient better.
Although all that being said, I have to also concede to the fact that at times when stuck on a problem, a fresh perspective is very helpful instead of going around in circles being fixated on being influenced by the past achievements in that field. When a person is not influenced by the past achievements of a field, they have their own thought process in mind which helps them think clearly and may even help them reach their solution to the problem and make a significant contribution to the field.
Therefore, I agree with the author to a great extent and believe that in any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field but I also believe that there are exceptions to these cases and sometimes it may prove to be helpful in contribution to the field without being influenced by the past achievements.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use simply 'to'
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Message: Use simply 'to'
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...evelopment lies and where can they work so as to make a contribution to the field. It is...
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Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...n achieved and how it has been achieved so as to be better equiped with the proper knowl...
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...tors are faced with a patient that they cant figure out how to treat, it is not unco...
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...ar cases and draw inspiration from them so as to treat their patient better. Although...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, as to, to a great extent
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 33.0505617978 157% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 91.0 58.6224719101 155% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2402.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 509.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.71905697446 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74984508646 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82289080334 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 215.323595506 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.361493123772 0.4932671777 73% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 738.0 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.2370786517 64% => 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: 39.0 23.0359550562 169% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 99.0800883393 60.3974514979 164% => OK
Chars per sentence: 184.769230769 118.986275619 155% => OK
Words per sentence: 39.1538461538 23.4991977007 167% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.69230769231 5.21951772744 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => 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: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.441832785464 0.243740707755 181% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.185012025142 0.0831039109588 223% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.14114461443 0.0758088955206 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.318017324426 0.150359130593 212% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.118917315983 0.0667264976115 178% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.4 14.1392134831 144% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.81 48.8420337079 100% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.1 12.1743820225 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.69 12.1639044944 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.49 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 100.480337079 62% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 11.8971910112 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 17.6 11.2143820225 157% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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