Claim: Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
Reason: We are not able to make connections between current events and past events until we have some distance from both.
Knowledge of our rich past is a major luxury we have in modern world. We have come a long way in terms of societal development, but hadn't we at some point looked back and rectified the mistakes of the past - our legal systems, our government systems etc. would have been in complete chaos today. I believe, that given the dizzying pace we are developing today, understanding the past has become even more important. Our knowledge of history has helped us sift through a variety of social structures and tecnological mishaps, and has helped us better judge on what we think is the best way forward....
- Claim: Any piece of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted, since it may well be proven false in the future.Reason: Much of the information that people assume is factual actually turns out to be inaccurate. 58
- Universities should require students to take courses only within those fields they are interested in studying 90
- Claim: Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive.Reason: It is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated. 69
- Claim: Imagination is a more valuable asset than experience.Reason: People who lack experience are free to imagine what is possible without the constraints of established habits and attitudes. 75
- Claim Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today Reason We are not able to make connections between current events and past events until we have some distance from both 83
Sentence: We have come a long way in terms of societal development, but hadn't we at some point looked back and rectified the mistakes of the past - our legal systems, our government systems etc. would have been in complete chaos today.
Error: hadn Suggestion: hand
Sentence: Our knowledge of history has helped us sift through a variety of social structures and tecnological mishaps, and has helped us better judge on what we think is the best way forward.
Error: tecnological Suggestion: technological
Sentence: However, behavioural scientists around the world seem to concur on the fact that all our acitons are in some sense a reflection of our past knowledge and experience.
Error: acitons Suggestion: actions
Sentence: This owuld have not been possible, if we had simply forgotten the incremental progress we made in the technology and science space.
Error: owuld Suggestion: would
Sentence: What we did in technology world, was - acrrue our past knowledge and then make these ideas substantially complexer to fit the needs of future.
Error: acrrue Suggestion: accrue
flaws:
No. of Words: 676 350
Don't put two paragraphs starting with 'however'
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 36 15
No. of Words: 676 350
No. of Characters: 3243 1500
No. of Different Words: 315 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.099 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.797 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.664 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 218 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 163 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 109 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 85 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.778 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.554 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.528 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.289 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.452 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.177 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5