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.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
What is the purpose of research in any field? The goal is to analyze a mysterious problem in a particular field and find feasible solutions for the same. It is true that a number of innovations are a result of accidental discovery. However, one cannot deny the importance of focused research in a particular field. A research project can be successful when the scientists or researchers involved are deeply interested in it.
A well-defined problem statement is the first step of any kind of research. If researchers are not focused on something that has an immediate, practical application, how would they define a problem statement to work on? Moreover, the interest in a research domain is equally important for a researcher to contribute something valuable. For instance, if Einstein had not restrained his focus on the field of physics in which he expected to discover something valuable, it would have cost the world another decade or more to discover the same. Admittedly, the outcome of his research was not clear at the time. Nonetheless, it is his passion that helped him to uncover mysteries of physics, and a number of ground-breaking theories such as the photoelectric effect, theory of relativity, and Bose-Einstein quantum statistics.
In addition, modern research projects are goal-oriented and require a comprehensive literature review before starting the research work. For such projects, it is highly likely that the outcome is sure to be achieved. Researchers need to define a problem statement along with a lot of evidence supporting the feasibility of research work to get the funding for the project. There is no element of luck or chance in such determined projects. Any modern research project can be considered as an example here: a large hadron collider, genome sequencing, or a number of unicorn start-ups around the globe.
It can be argued that history is replete with examples of accidental discoveries where researchers' goals were not limited to certain areas. For example, fleming's discovery of penicillin, and Wilhelm Rontgen's discovery of X-rays. Despite these and many other examples, one cannot deny the fact that the basis for all these innovations was a focused, goal-oriented research project.
However, in some rare cases, scholars should focus highly on immediate problems targeting a probable outcome. Mankind faces unexpected events sometimes. For instance, the world is now besieged by the novel coronavirus, scientists do not know much about its molecular structure and genome. There is no medicine available that can cure the patients, so the only way to protect people is to prevent it from infecting which can be achieved by vaccination. As a result, researchers all over the world have been working relentlessly to invent vaccines, and already we have some efficient vaccines such as Moderna, Pfizer, Oxford, etc within only one year. These vaccines are saving millions of lives. If in this unprecedented situation, researchers did not think about the current threat, we would not have these life saving cures.
In conclusion, researchers should work on the projects in which they expect to discover something new. Undoubtedly, there are some projects where the outcome of a line of research cannot be predicted with certainty, and in others, there is a fair chance of not achieving the desired results. Nevertheless, deviating from their interests would not lead to fruitful outcomes, either in their field of interest or the new area that they are exploring.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 802, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this life' or 'these lives'?
Suggestion: this life; these lives
...t the current threat, we would not have these life saving cures. In conclusion, resear...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, nonetheless, so, well, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, kind of, such as, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2962.0 2235.4752809 132% => OK
No of words: 564.0 442.535393258 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25177304965 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87326216964 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01227098217 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 288.0 215.323595506 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510638297872 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 932.4 704.065955056 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.0770536905 60.3974514979 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.137931034 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4482758621 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.79310344828 5.21951772744 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.285997707118 0.243740707755 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0750427344144 0.0831039109588 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0676040516888 0.0758088955206 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152478762318 0.150359130593 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0734213663523 0.0667264976115 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 163.0 100.480337079 162% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 802, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this life' or 'these lives'?
Suggestion: this life; these lives
...t the current threat, we would not have these life saving cures. In conclusion, resear...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, nonetheless, so, well, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, kind of, such as, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2962.0 2235.4752809 132% => OK
No of words: 564.0 442.535393258 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25177304965 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87326216964 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01227098217 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 288.0 215.323595506 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510638297872 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 932.4 704.065955056 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.0770536905 60.3974514979 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.137931034 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4482758621 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.79310344828 5.21951772744 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.285997707118 0.243740707755 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0750427344144 0.0831039109588 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0676040516888 0.0758088955206 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152478762318 0.150359130593 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0734213663523 0.0667264976115 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 163.0 100.480337079 162% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: 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.