Many important discoveries or creations are accidental: it is usually while seeking the answer to one question that we come across the answer to another.
For centuries, scientists are working tirelessly in the laboratories, with some purpose in mind which they wanted to achieve by following certain pre-planned steps. Even when the research work didn’t reach a stage when laboratories have come into existence, people used to apply thought process in order to enhance the way of working, which gave us the gifts of fire, or wheel. It can be assumed that most of these researches never yielded the intended outcome, while some of them had actually achieved the goals. However, there are indeed a few well-known cases of research, or some other unplanned activities, that went in a completely different direction, with the researcher, to his utter surprise, finding something that have proved quite useful in the history of mankind, but the original purpose was nowhere close to what could be ultimately achieved.
Otherwise, what shall we call the discovery of some of the great medicines of all time – including penicillin, insulin, quinine, or even viagra? Saccharine was discovered when the scientists were actually doing some other chemical researches, forgot to wash hands, and found everything they touch with their hands taste sweet. They patented Saccharine which was 400 times sweeter than sugar, and was of great importance during the world wars, as a replacement of sugar. Even microwaves, radioactivity or LSD fall into this serendipitous category of great accidental inventions.
We all know, Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays when he was experimenting with cathode ray tubes. He saw some rays leaking out of the container, and tried to stop that by using thicker materials with no results. Then he tried to put his hands to stop that emission, and he clearly saw his bones visible in the wall placed next to his hands. He immediately recognize ho beneficial this rays will be to diagnose inside human body, and X-rays saw daylight for the first time.
It is said that Tea, the most widespread beverage in the world, was discovered by a Chinese emperor. He sat under a tree after an long day of travel, and was served with some hot water. Suddenly a few leaves from the tree fell into the water. When the emperor drank it, he had very refreshing feeling. That was how tea was discovered, with no active pursuit to find a beverage.
Viagra, originally intended to be a heart remedy, was found quite ineffective for heart patients, but those used it reported an increased erectile function. When experimented with this new objective, it has found to heal many patients with erectile dysfunction.
So it’s indeed agreeable to the original assertion that many discoveries were actually accidents, and not as per the originally followed plans. Still, they have made a huge difference in the world of mankind.
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Cannot understand the low
Cannot understand the low score, though the contents are full of real life examples, and the previous feedback to improve score was all followed. Looks like it doesn't find the correlation between essay and topic - I am clueless how to improve that.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 213, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...en the research work didn't reach a stage when laboratories have come into e...
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Line 3, column 48, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...se, what shall we call the discovery of some of the great medicines of all time – including...
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Line 5, column 357, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[3]
Message: The pronoun 'He' must be used with a third-person verb: 'recognizes'.
Suggestion: recognizes
...laced next to his hands. He immediately recognize ho beneficial this rays will be to diag...
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Line 7, column 128, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...nese emperor. He sat under a tree after an long day of travel, and was served with...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, however, if, so, still, then, well, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2336.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 457.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11159737418 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77735439871 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 271.0 215.323595506 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592997811816 0.4932671777 120% => OK
syllable_count: 725.4 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 12.0 1.77640449438 676% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.6197899648 60.3974514979 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.238095238 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7619047619 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.21951772744 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.0400745332971 0.243740707755 16% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0124769371236 0.0831039109588 15% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0197614012016 0.0758088955206 26% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0233184326255 0.150359130593 16% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0167059708197 0.0667264976115 25% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 100.480337079 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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