is it better to focus on one skill or many skills

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is it better to focus on one skill or many skills

The approach an individual takes to the improvement of their skills depends to a great extent on their goal and expected function of those skills in their lives. While many might believe specializing in one area is a decisive factor in being more successful, opponents may argue that learning different capabilities is more practical and useful. I agree with the former, and I believe success is readily achieved while focusing on the development of one specific skill. I will demonstrate further as follows.

First, in my opinion, today's world is a bed for specialty training and promoting the status of individuals who are highly advanced experts in one narrow field. Due to all the progress in science and technology, every subject in the educational and professional fields has become tremendously complex, and it requires special training. Additionally, when a company wants to hire an employee or when a community member needs service, they turn to the person who is particularly focused on the subject and has developed extraordinary skills. In other words, while there was a high demand for generalization in the past, today, communities encourage specialization. For instance, a hundred years ago, in my country, there was only one type of medical doctor, which corresponds to the general practitioner role today. This doctor had to know about every illness, every drug, and nutritional and physical facts. Today, by contrast, there are specialists trained to treat every minute part of the body, and people value their work more than general practitioners.

Secondly, striving to develop several skills and perfecting each one of them is simply impossible in my mind. We live in a busy world; the hectic nature of modern life makes balancing between work, education, and social life very difficult. Now, imagine combining these inevitable challenges with another hard-to-overcome obstacle; the development of numerous abilities and gaining expertise in every one of them. There is a limit to human time and energy, and this struggle surpasses that limit. Thus, I believe in the attempt of trying different skills, one might risk not achieving excellence in any one of them. For example, how can a professional international athlete manage to find the time to attend graduate school and get a Ph.D. in finance?

Conclusively, I believe that in today's world there are high rewarding roles for people who have specialized skills. Moreover, it is not plausible to assume a person can learn many different skills and be proficient in all of them. Therefore, it is best to concentrate on developing one ability and improving it constantly.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 170, Rule ID: MANY_NN_U[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun might seems to be uncountable; consider using: 'much might', 'a good deal of might'.
Suggestion: much might; a good deal of might
... of those skills in their lives. While many might believe specializing in one area is a d...
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Line 10, column 176, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
... plausible to assume a person can learn many different skills and be proficient in all of them...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, while, for example, for instance, in my opinion, in other words, to a great extent

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 43.0788530466 67% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2233.0 1977.66487455 113% => OK
No of words: 426.0 407.700716846 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24178403756 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54310108192 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00704958347 2.67179642975 113% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 212.727598566 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593896713615 0.524837075471 113% => OK
syllable_count: 716.4 618.680645161 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.86738351254 321% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.3111928815 48.9658058833 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.65 100.406767564 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3 20.6045352989 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.35 5.45110844103 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.229862997767 0.236089414692 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0610682602778 0.076458572812 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0780233703286 0.0737576698707 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153696008414 0.150856017488 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0874818610725 0.0645574589148 136% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 11.7677419355 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 58.1214874552 72% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.1575268817 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 10.9000537634 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.53 8.01818996416 119% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 86.8835125448 151% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 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: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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