Critical judgment of work in any given field has little value unless it comes from someone who is an expert in 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.
Before releasing a new piece of artwork, applying for tryouts for a sports team, or going public with any type of material they have worked on, people usually ask for advice from others. Sometimes they receive constructive feedback, and sometimes it turns out that the comments are not actually as helpful as they had hoped. This type of situation makes a person wonder if critical judgement by others is only beneficial when it is given by people who are experts in the related field. Some people could argue that even laymen could give critical judgment, but I don't believe that is the case. The general public could be helpful in giving people a hint of an idea that could be helpful, but only experts have the capacity to give constructive criticism.
Admittedly, in most cases, anyone's comments about other people's work can be helpful. As the saying goes, "Two heads are better than one", so judgments made by fellow peers, mentors, or even strangers can help a person find his or her righteous path if something is wrong. However, there is doubt as to how much of a help they can be. If one has a lack of experience or knowledge in the field, there is a limit to how much he or she can fundamentally help a person in that typical field. For example, if amateur golfers see a neophyte trying to play golf for the first time, they could assist the helpless novice in fixing his or her posture. However, there is a limit to the amount of advice they can give, as they are not professionals themselves, and are also still learning. The judgement they give towards the beginner is based mostly on shallow knowledge and conjecture about what would be appropriate. People who are not experts, in this way, cannot give convincing critical judgments.
On the other hand, experts can give excellent personalized advice to other people. The reason their opinions can give a critical amount of benefits to others is because these people have gone through all the process that others in the same field are going through. Having prior knowledge about what people are experiencing, and what they will probably experience in the future allows them to give judgments tailored to the needs of others. Therefore, their critical judgments are not to help people out with their work, but also timely to help them out with their progress, encouraging them to have more confidence in themselves.
Also, experts can give much more coherent advice than the average person. Since professionals are those that have accumulated a tremendous amount of knowledge in their respective fields, their though process are relatively more organized than others. For example, when a graduate student discusses his or her idea regarding a thesis, it is possible for him or her to get tongue-tied due to lack of knowledge. However, just by listening to the key words of the idea, professors readily grasp what the student is trying to convey in the paper, and guides the pupil to right a cogent and persuasive paper. What could be just a bad random mix of possibly good ideas could actually fulfill their potentials with the critical assessment of an expert.
In conclusion, even though most people can give advice to some degree regarding others' work, there are limits in the depth of their opinions. On the contrary, experts can give more one-on-one advice and deliver their judgement more clearly due to the copious amounts of knowledge and experience they have. Therefore, it would be wise for people to focus more on the advice experts in their field give them.
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Essay evaluation report
flaws:
two reasons are relatively similar:
On the other hand, experts can give excellent personalized advice to other people.
Also, experts can give much more coherent advice than the average person.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 607 350
No. of Characters: 2861 1500
No. of Different Words: 265 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.964 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.713 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.477 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 201 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 135 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.28 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.023 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.76 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.308 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.487 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.142 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 449, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
...y beneficial when it is given by people who are experts in the related field. Some peop...
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Line 1, column 564, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...men could give critical judgment, but I dont believe that is the case. The general p...
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Line 1, column 599, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...ut I dont believe that is the case. The general public could be helpful in giving people a hin...
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Line 3, column 584, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... trying to play golf for the first time, they could assist the helpless novice in...
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Line 7, column 444, Rule ID: KEY_WORDS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'keywords'?
Suggestion: keywords
...edge. However, just by listening to the key words of the idea, professors readily grasp w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, regarding, so, still, therefore, as to, for example, in conclusion, in most cases, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 33.0505617978 157% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 78.0 58.6224719101 133% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2949.0 2235.4752809 132% => OK
No of words: 606.0 442.535393258 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86633663366 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.96155895361 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56579222943 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 275.0 215.323595506 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453795379538 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 920.7 704.065955056 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 9.0 1.77640449438 507% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.948967446 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.96 118.986275619 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.24 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.32 5.21951772744 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
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: 0.121524012297 0.243740707755 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0403699448492 0.0831039109588 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0373618372427 0.0758088955206 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0793164036023 0.150359130593 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0272241817956 0.0667264976115 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 100.480337079 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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