I strongly agree with the assertion that significant advances in knowledge require expertise from various fields. The world around us presents a seamless web of physical and anthropocentric forces, which interact in ways that can be understood only in the context of a variety of disciplines. Two examples that aptly illustrate this point involve the fields of cultural anthropology and astronomy.
Consider how a cultural anthropologist's knowledge about an ancient civilization is enhanced not only by the expertise of the archaeologist--who unearths the evidence--but ultimately by the expertise of biochemists, geologists, linguists, and even astronomers. By analyzing the hair, nails, blood and bones of mummified bodies, biochemists and forensic scientists can determine the life expectancy, general well-being, and common causes of death of the population. These experts can also ensure the proper preservation of evidence found at the archaeological site. A geologist can help identify the source and age of the materials used for tools, weapons, and structures--thereby enabling the anthropologist to extrapolate about the civilization's economy, trades and work habits, life styles, extent of travel and mobility, and so forth. Linguists are needed to interpret hieroglyphics and extrapolate from found fragments of writings. And an astronomer can help explain the layout of an ancient city as well as the design, structure and position of monuments, tombs, and temples--since ancients often looked to the stars for guidance in building cities and structures.
An even more striking example of how expertise in diverse fields is needed to advance knowledge involves the area of astronomy and space exploration. Significant advancements in our knowledge of the solar system and the universe require increasingly keen tools for observation and measurement. Telescope technology and the measurement of celestial distances, masses, volumes, and so forth, are the domain of astrophysicists.
These advances also require increasingly sophisticated means of exploration. Manned and unmanned exploratory probes are designed by mechanical, electrical, and computer engineers. And to build and enable these technologies requires the acumen and savvy of business leaders, managers, and politicians. Even diplomats might play a role--insofar as major space projects require intentional cooperative efforts among the world's scientists and governments. And ultimately it is our philosophers whose expertise helps provide meaning to what we learn about our universe.
In sum, no area nonintellectual inquiry operates in a vacuum. Because the sciences are inextricably related, to advance our knowledge in any one area we must understand the interplay among them all. Moreover, it is our non-scientists who make possible the science, and who bring meaning to what we learn from it.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'look', 'moreover', 'so', 'well', 'as well as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.286004056795 0.240241500013 119% => OK
Verbs: 0.121703853955 0.157235817809 77% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0730223123732 0.0880659088768 83% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0507099391481 0.0497285424764 102% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0283975659229 0.0444667217837 64% => OK
Prepositions: 0.107505070994 0.12292977631 87% => OK
Participles: 0.0304259634888 0.0406280797675 75% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.3663886435 2.79330140395 121% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0162271805274 0.030933414821 52% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0953346855984 0.0997080785238 96% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0141987829615 0.0249443105267 57% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0243407707911 0.0148568991511 164% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2906.0 2732.02544248 106% => OK
No of words: 431.0 452.878318584 95% => OK
Chars per words: 6.74245939675 6.0361032391 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55637350225 4.58838876751 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.445475638051 0.366273622748 122% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.380510440835 0.280924506359 135% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.30162412993 0.200843997647 150% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.208816705336 0.132149295362 158% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.3663886435 2.79330140395 121% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 219.290929204 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587006960557 0.48968727796 120% => OK
Word variations: 72.0657520112 55.4138127331 130% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6194690265 97% => OK
Sentence length: 21.55 23.380412469 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.3236444335 59.4972553346 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.3 141.124799967 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.55 23.380412469 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.4 0.674092028746 59% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.21349557522 115% => OK
Readability: 59.6010440835 51.4728631049 116% => OK
Elegance: 2.11111111111 1.64882698954 128% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239071251059 0.391690518653 61% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0945155122613 0.123202303941 77% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0547989992905 0.077325440228 71% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.565620435645 0.547984918172 103% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.148953720405 0.149214159877 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104684651425 0.161403998019 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0507956324798 0.0892212321368 57% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.401382476683 0.385218514788 104% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.133257645764 0.0692045440612 193% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164261325277 0.275328986314 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0436908116222 0.0653680567796 67% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.4325221239 77% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.30420353982 57% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88274336283 184% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 8.0 7.22455752212 111% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.66592920354 27% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 8.0 2.70907079646 295% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 13.5995575221 125% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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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.