It is generally believed that some people are born with certain talents, for example, for sport or music; and others are not. However, it is sometimes claimed that any child can be taught to become a sports person or musician. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your knowledge or experience.
It is possible that genetics as nature and environment as nurture are not mutually exclusive. This assumption may explain in part the different levels of personal ability in music, art, sport and so on. In other words, good training is as important as natural talents.
From one point of view, being born with special gifts is certainly an advantage. What tells a difference is the innate talent which may be something that cannot be taught, and something money cannot buy. That is to say, without such born talent, no matter how good the teacher is or how frequently a person practices, there is little hope for him or her to become an excellent musician, artist, or sports player. Underlying this view is the fact that there is more to a natural skill than a learned technique. Indeed, some people do have talents that are probably inherited via their genes, allowing them to excel in specific fields. In comparison, more hard-working students are likely to find it next to impossible to reach as high a level as desired.
Nevertheless, from the other point of view, it seems that in right environment, practice would make perfect. Hard work could make a difference in children who are motivated to be aiming high in whatever discipline, including music, art or sport. At school, plenty of exceptional examples are found as evidence to support the claim that a child can acquire specific skills through continuous training under appropriate guidance. This implies the importance of learning with natural gifts or without. Further, it may be said that gifted persons would remain only gifted persons if their talents were not developed properly. Actually, the current education systems are based on the belief that all children can be taught to learn different skills, however demanding.
As a conclusion, any child can be trained to different degrees to become professionals, but to be really good in such areas as music, art and sport, then probably certain talents are required. The innate ability is always a plus, but it does not mean that the born talent is itself a guarantee for success. Nor does it indicate that, for not being born with certain talents, people should not at all learn particular skills.
Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'nevertheless', 'really', 'so', 'then', 'in other words', 'that is to say']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.218527315914 0.247107183377 88% => OK
Verbs: 0.171021377672 0.155533422707 110% => OK
Adjectives: 0.109263657957 0.0946595960268 115% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0570071258907 0.0501214627716 114% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0285035629454 0.0437548338989 65% => OK
Prepositions: 0.114014251781 0.122226691241 93% => OK
Participles: 0.0498812351544 0.0403226058552 124% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.65636015581 2.80594681477 95% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0308788598575 0.0326793684256 94% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0760095011876 0.0861772015684 88% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0285035629454 0.021408717616 133% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0190023752969 0.011925033212 159% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2226.0 1933.35771543 115% => OK
No of words: 372.0 316.048096192 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.98387096774 6.12580529183 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39173103935 4.20517956788 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.381720430108 0.374742101984 102% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.284946236559 0.28420135186 100% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.188172043011 0.203846283523 92% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.115591397849 0.137316102897 84% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65636015581 2.80594681477 95% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 176.037074148 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575268817204 0.56093040696 103% => OK
Word variations: 66.2761811272 60.7387585426 109% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0891783567 112% => OK
Sentence length: 20.6666666667 20.7743622355 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.0459841978 49.517814964 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.666666667 127.492653851 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6666666667 20.7743622355 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.611111111111 0.814263465372 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 49.1612903226 49.1944974215 100% => OK
Elegance: 1.49074074074 1.69124875643 88% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.429352803252 0.332605444948 129% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0753103760409 0.102741220458 73% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0627759947506 0.0668466124924 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.451138759927 0.534860350844 84% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0970987943002 0.148594505496 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136679469187 0.134430193775 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0648225073605 0.0742795772207 87% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.274330350218 0.324371583561 85% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0283047019492 0.0638462369009 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.284741790734 0.228012699653 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0871351493201 0.058150111329 150% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 8.68436873747 196% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.41683366733 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 14.0 5.90881763527 237% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 2.5751503006 39% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 1.9629258517 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 15.0 10.4468937876 144% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.