“In our time, specialists of all kinds are highly overrated. We need more generalists—people who can
provide broad perspectives."
To quote the saying, "Jack of all trades, master of none," would be my position on the statement. I feel
specialists in all areas of knowledge lead to a higher standard of living for everyone. Specializing in
different areas allows us to use each others talents to the highest level and maximize potential. As an
example, if a person required brain surgery, would they rather have a brain surgeon or a general practitioner
doing the work? Clearly a specialist would do the better job and give the patient a chance at a better life.
A university education starts by laying the groundwork for general knowledge but then narrows down to a
specific field. General knowledge and a broad prospective are important, but if there was no focus on
specific areas, our overall knowledge as a population would be seriously lessened.
Another example of specialists not being overated would be international trade. Not every nation can
provide for themselves. They need to get products and ideas from other parts of the world because they are
better at providing them. This allows for a growing economy if two different nations can provide each
other with two different products. If one country can produce oranges better than another, it should trade
the oranges for the fish that it can not produce. If generalizing was the normal thing to do and both
countries tried to produce all kinds of products, the countries would probably survive, but not have the
standard of living they presently have.
- Some people believe that scientific discoveries have given us a much better understanding of the world around us Others believe that science has revealed to us that the world is infinitely more complex than we ever realized 83
- Advancement in a field of study and outside experts 83
- Some people claim that you can tell whether a nation is great by looking at the achievements of its rulers artists or scientists Others argue that the surest indicator of a great nation is in fact the general welfare of all its people Write a response in 66
- Some people believe that scientific discoveries have given us a much better understanding of the world around us Others believe that science has revealed to us that the world is infinitely more complex than we ever realized 83
- Do we learn most from the people whose views we share 73
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 262, Rule ID: MAY_COULD_POSSIBLY[1]
Message: Use simply 'can'.
Suggestion: can
...ing their times, now, no one individual can possibly digest and assimilate all of the knowle...
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Line 3, column 297, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...dual can possibly digest and assimilate all of the knowledge in any given area. On the ot...
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Line 4, column 102, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: No
...hich people can lose the larger picture.No one can hope to understand the human bo...
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Line 5, column 449, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Meanwhile,
... and new technologies are driven ahead. Meanwhile no individual can see the wholisitc vie...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 33, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a people' or simply 'peoples'?
Suggestion: a people; peoples
...f all. Finally, over-specialization in a peoples daily lives and jobs has meant personal...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, if, look, may, so, still, thus, while, at least, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 36.0 14.8657303371 242% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 88.0 58.6224719101 150% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3264.0 2235.4752809 146% => OK
No of words: 622.0 442.535393258 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24758842444 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.99398916966 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.3370397056 2.79657885939 119% => OK
Unique words: 320.0 215.323595506 149% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514469453376 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 1053.9 704.065955056 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => 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: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.5185158609 60.3974514979 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.0 118.986275619 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9166666667 23.4991977007 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.58333333333 5.21951772744 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.177024047474 0.243740707755 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0491265963805 0.0831039109588 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0438485948633 0.0758088955206 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0807915580187 0.150359130593 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0407754399993 0.0667264976115 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 14.1392134831 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.8420337079 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.04 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 164.0 100.480337079 163% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 21.0 11.8971910112 177% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
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.