In any field of inquiry the beginner is more likely than the expert to make important contributions 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 | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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In any field of inquiry, the beginner is more likely than the expert to make important contributions.

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.

For the past few centuries, virtually every field of human endeavour has morphed so drastically in an unprecented way. In cooking the use of fire and wood has been replaced with stoves and cookers, the use of axes and hoes has been replaced with tractors and ploughs, even in the health sector many diseases and ailments ones seen as impossible to cure can now be prevented even with a tablet of drug. All these achievements and developments would have not been possible without the contributions of some people, both beginners and experts. However, people sometimes posit that beginners are more likely to make important contributions in any field of inquiry than the expert. While this does not hold in every case, I agree to this argument due to the following reasons stated below.

To begin with, experts are known to have a vast knowledge of a particular field such that they actually in many cases have lacked the inquisitiveness a beginner may have. A beginner comes into a field with the motive to make impacts and begin a new kind of beginning, while an expert though with this motive but may have been preoccupied because of the position they have attained. This can be seen as Professors of Universities have supervisees of which they supervise their work and in turn benefit from the contributions made by the supervisee. A professor once given a grant would surely need the contributions of beginners in the field such as Phd or Masters students who can make important contributions and would most likely not opt to work with another expert in the field. This is because the beginners are more likely to make more contributions than an expert, due to their inquisitiveness and the time they have unlike an expert.

As a further illustration, consider the story of the great mathematician Paul Erdos and the then child mathematician Terence Tao, who today have won the prestigious Fields Medal, the equivalent of Nobel Prize for mathematicians. Paul Erdos, though a renowned mathematician worked closedly with the 9 year old boy to make groundbreeaking contirbutions to the world of Mathematics. This ability to contribute more than experts has been undersstood by many experts in different fields, and thus they employ beginners to work with them so as to have significant contributions.
However, as many may argue otherwise that experts can contribute more due to their experience and knowledge. This actually can be debunked, since contributions to a field is not by mere experience but with the inquisitiveness to discover loop holes in a certain field, a quality known to be possessed by beginners.
Conclusively, I agree to the argument that beginners are likely to contribute more than experts because of the reasons given above.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, however, if, may, so, then, thus, while, as to, kind of, such as, in many cases, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2300.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 458.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02183406114 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62611441266 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04335171556 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.471615720524 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 730.8 704.065955056 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => 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: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 48.7803991758 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.75 118.986275619 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.625 23.4991977007 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.8125 5.21951772744 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => 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: 0.261935474903 0.243740707755 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105509906048 0.0831039109588 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0861403903273 0.0758088955206 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.165425464401 0.150359130593 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0525862631863 0.0667264976115 79% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 14.1392134831 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.8420337079 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.43 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 100.480337079 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, however, if, may, so, then, thus, while, as to, kind of, such as, in many cases, to begin with

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