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.

I concede that some scientists made great contributions for the benefit of people by focusing on areas that they think will make a change in human’s life. However, I disagree with the statement in two respects. First, not all these progresses are made with a predetermined purpose. Second, the importance of developments in areas that may not seem like benefiting the majority in the short term should not be ignored.

I agree with the statement insofar as our lives has changed dramatically with the advent of scientific inventions designed to bring benefits to majority people. Just like how the invention of phonographs, cinecameras and electric light made by a venerable and profound inventor-Thomas Alva Edison, who had over 2000 inventions that are beneficial to humankind and lead human to electric lighting era-revolutionized the human visionary function. With the view of bringing light to the public so that people can read at night, Edison finally found a new illuminate called Japanese bamboo filament after trying over 6000 fiber material. Undoubtedly, these researches that serve to bring convenience to most people should be advocated.

However, some great inventions are a product of unexpected discoveries rather than a consequence of purposely benefiting the public in that goals are results do not always serve in the same direction. The surprising discovery of Penicillin can be cited as an example. Alexander Fleming, a biochemist who ended an age when contagions are virtually untreatable by helping human find a powerful bactericidal medicine-Penicillin, found an aberrant substance as a result of bacteriolysis in his laboratory after leaving scores of substrates unwashed. Therefore, it is presumptuous to define which research to focus on simply from its potential results since results are usually indeterminable.

Another problem with this argument is that it overlooked other researches that do not benefit the greatest number of people yet are still fundamental to a nation. While the public is the foundation of a country and benefiting the public seems to be at the top priority, there are other considerations that may affect a country in the long term, which includes national defense, outer space researches and history researches. Take the benefit of having outer space researches as an example. Although researches in outer space may seem have no direct effect on the public, it is necessary and closely related to human’s life in that it makes our daily communication with family via communication satellite and speculations on weather via the weather satellite possible. All these attributions will not exist without researchers’ efforts.

To sum up, researchers’ focus should not be constrained to studies that will benefit the majority people, instead, they should be free from such a restriction. In addition, investigations in all areas are encouraged.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'still', 'therefore', 'while', 'in addition', 'as a result', 'to sum up']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.245544554455 0.240241500013 102% => OK
Verbs: 0.152475247525 0.157235817809 97% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0990099009901 0.0880659088768 112% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0514851485149 0.0497285424764 104% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0257425742574 0.0444667217837 58% => OK
Prepositions: 0.128712871287 0.12292977631 105% => OK
Participles: 0.0415841584158 0.0406280797675 102% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.3039271309 2.79330140395 118% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0277227722772 0.030933414821 90% => OK
Particles: 0.0019801980198 0.0016655270985 119% => OK
Determiners: 0.10297029703 0.0997080785238 103% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0237623762376 0.0249443105267 95% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0237623762376 0.0148568991511 160% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2928.0 2732.02544248 107% => OK
No of words: 453.0 452.878318584 100% => OK
Chars per words: 6.46357615894 6.0361032391 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61343653406 4.58838876751 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.397350993377 0.366273622748 108% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.326710816777 0.280924506359 116% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.256070640177 0.200843997647 127% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.185430463576 0.132149295362 140% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.3039271309 2.79330140395 118% => OK
Unique words: 248.0 219.290929204 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.547461368653 0.48968727796 112% => OK
Word variations: 65.0953973242 55.4138127331 117% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6194690265 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.8421052632 23.380412469 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.0128549674 59.4972553346 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 154.105263158 141.124799967 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8421052632 23.380412469 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.789473684211 0.674092028746 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 56.5131869409 51.4728631049 110% => OK
Elegance: 1.81034482759 1.64882698954 110% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.429286816197 0.391690518653 110% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0973015787044 0.123202303941 79% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0601616684003 0.077325440228 78% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.511313599424 0.547984918172 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.157785524917 0.149214159877 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.140581922585 0.161403998019 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0746474469708 0.0892212321368 84% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.248901409219 0.385218514788 65% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0225386480493 0.0692045440612 33% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.255178987546 0.275328986314 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0353787364397 0.0653680567796 54% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.4325221239 105% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.30420353982 57% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88274336283 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 7.22455752212 111% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 13.5995575221 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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