Claim: Researchers should not limit their investigations to only those areas in which they expect to discover something that has an immediate, practical application.
Reason: It is impossible to predict the outcome of a line of research with any certainty.
Research plays a vital part in the competitive world of ours. We cannot undergo any development without serious research work being conducted. People who pursue research are regarded with high prestige and are considered equivalent to God for they gift the society with mind boggling findings and inventions. Research works requires lot of patience and diligent efforts in order to achieve success. In today’s world people just want to make money fast in shortest period of time by doing cosy job or having a business. In such scenario, it is highly contentious to limit the research work to areas that have immediate practical application. A stand can be taken on this issue only after a careful analysis.
Firstly, the ultimate aim of research is to firmly establish a new concept. It seems so that the concept is useless unless they apply to some manner fulfilling the needs of the society. On the contrary, all fruits of the scientists which we enjoy today were not highly regarded during those scientists’s period. For instance, we cannot imagine traveling to other country without the help of aeroplanes. But in the olden days, people used to travel to different part of the world by ships or by walks with periodic rest. We now realize that Wright brothers have gone a long way in inventing aeroplanes for making our journeys easier and enjoyable. The applications of the discovered results of a research is analyzed on-the-go and not as and when they are produced. Therefore, even if the research result does not result in immediate practical application, they may sometime in future turn out to be the most important discoveries. Newton’s theory of gravitation and Einstein’s theory of relativity seemed to be of trivial importance back then when they were put forth before the society. On the other hand, today, most of the concepts in physics could not establish their results without considering the implication of these theories. Research done in any field will always have utility. But it might not be relevant in the initial stages after research work is being completed.
Secondly, the time and effort required by the research work is tremendous, to the extent of not justifying the compulsion of any practical application. Huge amount of money is also spent by governments of countries like United States of America in order to make their nation forefront in the area of research. Unlike other projects, a research project’s consequences cannot be determined beforehand. For instance, installations of nuclear power plant in order to compensate the electricity shortage might be a good move. The scientists and civil engineers may undergo an extensive research about the targeted place in order to effectively design the nuclear power plant. But there exists a possibility of any untoward incidents happening in case of leakage in the nuclear power plant. The damage that it would cause cannot be estimated and pre-cautionary measures can be taken only to assuage the severity of the purported damages. Therefore, uncertainty in research works should not prevent one from carrying them out. Risks are meant to be taken in most cases to come out with flying colors in the field of research. For example, ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in the field of computer science was touted to be the active research field in the 1990’s. After a decade, the research works became dull in this area due to the fear of failure. But, now this field has again gain momentum and countries are competing to bring out a perfect humanoid robot. Therefore, considering the complexity of research work, too much thinking must not happen prior to start a research.
Everyone today wants to do their activities in a jiffy. Subsequently, they look forward to exciting gadgets and applications to make their life easier. However, there exists another part of the society beyond the common people. The teachers, doctors, engineers, etc, also require help in their profession. Hence, research works should be evenly carried out across all the fields. Some might be of the opinion that a research work is not worth pursuing, if it does not cater to the uses of majority of the people. However, all the professions are interlinked. For instance, if a serious disease rocks the world tomorrow, the medical research have to come up with a promising treatment or medication; otherwise the disease will make a huge impact and affect people in all walks of life. Same is the case with computers which are operated by almost all professions. As a result, all fields are interlinked and necessary to ensure healthy and comfortable survival of the humanity.
Thus, I completed agree with the claim that researchers should not restrict themselves to areas with potential applications. As quoted in the reason, the output of research works cannot be determined with accuracy. Hence research works are to be carried out by the individuals out of their own interest. Researchers ought to devote their time in finding new concepts and leaving applications or the part of it to the society. For example, Ramanujan’s mathematical derivations were not much of use in his days. But today, they are highly regarded and researchers are still working on his theorems to make new implications. Research works take a humongous amount of time and sincere efforts to establish something worthwhile and research in all fields are necessary to ensure a better living.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 458, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'in the shortest'.
Suggestion: in the shortest
...rld people just want to make money fast in shortest period of time by doing cosy job or hav...
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Line 1, column 470, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...ust want to make money fast in shortest period of time by doing cosy job or having a business....
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Line 3, column 699, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'research'.
Suggestion: research
...plications of the discovered results of a research is analyzed on-the-go and not as and wh...
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Line 5, column 574, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'extensive research'.
Suggestion: extensive research
...entists and civil engineers may undergo an extensive research about the targeted place in order to ef...
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Line 5, column 1388, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'gained'.
Suggestion: gained
... failure. But, now this field has again gain momentum and countries are competing to...
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Line 5, column 1574, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'research'.
Suggestion: research
...thinking must not happen prior to start a research. Everyone today wants to do their ac...
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Line 9, column 216, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...rks cannot be determined with accuracy. Hence research works are to be carried out by...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, therefore, thus, while, as to, for example, for instance, in short, as a result, in most cases, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 41.0 19.5258426966 210% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 14.8657303371 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 150.0 58.6224719101 256% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 4587.0 2235.4752809 205% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 893.0 442.535393258 202% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1366181411 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.46654420955 4.55969084622 120% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9401300512 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 421.0 215.323595506 196% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.471444568869 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 1429.2 704.065955056 203% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 49.0 20.2370786517 242% => Too many sentences.
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.9155031326 60.3974514979 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 93.612244898 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2244897959 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.55102040816 5.21951772744 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 24.0 10.2758426966 234% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 15.0 4.83258426966 310% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.275147416777 0.243740707755 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0653338507928 0.0831039109588 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0511057877979 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176118471732 0.150359130593 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0393216386364 0.0667264976115 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.1392134831 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 226.0 100.480337079 225% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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