It is generally believed that some people are born with certain talents, for instance for sport or music, and others are not. However, It is sometimes claimed that any child can be taught to become a good sports person or musician.

In this competitive world, people with certain level of proficiency in their career have a higher chance of success. Therefore, the controversy exists as to whether this degree of competency is a god given talent or can be acquired through practice. This essay aims to investigate the above-mentioned debate.

The defenders of genetically-inherited talent convincingly argue that there is a cascade of vital qualities in many fields that cannot be learned. Firstly, some sports demand particular physical characteristics that are only transferred through genes to offspring. For example, height in basketball or strong bone structure for football are necessities that cannot be taught. Secondly, it has been abundantly seen that children who are raised in similar circumstances have different abilities in the same obsession. For example, a research has been conducted on siblings in a close age that studied their capability in learning musical instruments. The outcome showed that although they had same instructors and used same instruments, the improvement pace was different in them.

On the other hand, the quote “practice makes perfect” has some wisdom to it. The vital role of hard work should not be undermined in any endeavor. There are many examples of people these days that have reached the highest level of success because of their dedication and hard work. Take famous musicians or sportsmen as an example, many of them admit that they learned the tricks of their trade by practicing. Another reason in support of the significance of training is that flaws and weaknesses can be discovered through repetition of a task. Hence, by correcting them, a higher level of proficiency can be achieved.

All in all, while the debate of talent versus hard-work has been continued for many years and probably will be continued for years to come, on the basis of the aforementioned points, I believe some natural and physical talents are certainly inheritable. However, training and hard work also play a vital part in achieving perfection.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 152, Rule ID: WHETHER[6]
Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "as to"?
Suggestion: whether
...cess. Therefore, the controversy exists as to whether this degree of competency is a god give...
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Line 3, column 530, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'research'.
Suggestion: research
...ies in the same obsession. For example, a research has been conducted on siblings in a clo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, as to, for example, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1739.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 326.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33435582822 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13074794123 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 176.041082164 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588957055215 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 542.7 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.8059110493 49.4020404114 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.294117647 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1764705882 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06120827912 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.202337067558 0.244688304435 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0536655497993 0.084324248473 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0430327755586 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107634812401 0.151304729494 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0218852966863 0.056905535591 38% => 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: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.4159519038 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.23 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 78.4519038076 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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