Scientists and other researchers should focus their research on areas that are likely to benefit the greatest number of people

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Scientists and other researchers should focus their research on areas that are likely to benefit the greatest number of people.

Ever since the first human gazed up at the night sky, human beings have never stopped acquiring knowledge and attempting to understand the surrounding environment. The statement assess that scientific research should aim at promoting the benefit of the people. I mostly agree with this prompt for two reasons. However I do concede that there are a few fields of research that may or may not benefit humans but they should get the attention.

To begin with, scientific researches, over the past hundred of years in the medical field have saved billions of lives. A disease that was considered life threatening before the medical advancement, can now be treated easily withing days. An ideal example to assess this statement would be the discovery of penicillin. The discovery of penicillin have changed the face of medicine and saved millions of lives. Another example to support this statement is discovery of smallpox vaccine. For centuries smallpox devastated mankind. In modern times we do not have to worry about it thanks to the remarkable work of Edward Jenner. We owe our lives and good health to a series of medical reasearchs that were made to help mankind.

Secondly, the researches that were done to our ease day-to-day tasks and routine have made it possible for us to have a luxurious life. It is because of invention of cars and automobiles that we can travel large distances within few hours. Thanks to Benjamin Franklin and his daring experiment to discover electricity, we now live in a world where we are not dependent on the natural light of sun. Another example to prove that our lives have become so much easy and comfortable is the continues discovery and advancement in technology. With the invention of mobile phones and computers, everything we need to know is now on our fingertip. We are not required to step out of our home to buy groceries, we just need a device that was developed as a result of millions of researches that were done to help people and to make their life easier.

However, I do believe that certain fields research worth time and attention even when it not assured that they will benefit people or not. The best example to illustrate the statement will the research in the field of space exploration. The space, as we know, is infinite and the knowledge we have now is significantly small. Thousands of scientists spend their whole life try to figure out the mysteries of the outer world. Even though most of the discoveries made in this field are not so beneficial currently but they do affect our lives in some ways. I do believe that even just for the sake of knowledge, this field is worth the attention and focus of scientists.

In conclusion, without the researches focus on collective benefit of humankind, thousands of people would still be dying of common diseases every year. We would still be writing letters to our loved ones that are far away from us. If we continue to support these researches the world will become a more better place to live.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 179, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'assesses'.
Suggestion: assesses
... surrounding environment. The statement assess that scientific research should aim at ...
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Line 1, column 311, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...agree with this prompt for two reasons. However I do concede that there are a few field...
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Line 9, column 232, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...r loved ones that are far away from us. If we continue to support these researches...
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Line 9, column 299, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'better' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: better
...hese researches the world will become a more better place to live.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, in conclusion, as a result, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 33.0505617978 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 77.0 58.6224719101 131% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2500.0 2235.4752809 112% => OK
No of words: 518.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82625482625 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77070365392 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66983321978 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 257.0 215.323595506 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496138996139 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 792.0 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.3727250151 60.3974514979 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 92.5925925926 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1851851852 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.7037037037 5.21951772744 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.155200758439 0.243740707755 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0432415291061 0.0831039109588 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0646968659029 0.0758088955206 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0993747286988 0.150359130593 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0577974542493 0.0667264976115 87% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 14.1392134831 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.1639044944 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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