In any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Throughout the history, there have been extraordinary prodigies such as Isaac Newton and John Sebastian Bach. Since the ingenuity underlying their works is seemingly unprecedented, some people might argue that great works can be made without the influence of past works. On the contrary to this argument, however, I adamantly believe that substantial achievements can be engendered only though past achievements in most cases.
Granted, the very first academic achievements are constructed out of nowhere. For example, the concept of Idea by Plato was reified without being influenced by past academic works, and many other notable original philosophical works were also invented without relying on the previous concepts. Similarly, other very first notions that constitute the axiom of their fields are in general not affected by previous works. Obvious as it may sound, this is simply because the first generation of academic giants had nothing to refer to.
However, most significant concepts except for the above-mentioned marginal axiomatic concepts rely on the previous works. Take Newton, the aforementioned prominent figure, as an example. One of the greatest achievements of him should be the formulation of the canonical equation of motions in classical physics, and some memoirs of him depict that most of his scientific achievements are formulated without relying on the previous theories. However, it should be noted that most of his significant scientific achievements could not have been possible were it not for the concept of inertia that was postulated by Galileo Galilei, who has passed away right before Newton was born. For example, Principia, the book that summarizes the crux of Newton’s achievements, relies heavily on the concept of Galilei’s inertial motion. As this compelling example shows, even Newton’s works are realized by past achievements.
Moreover, considering the process of the vicissitude of academic paradigm, the logic should be extended to other academic fields as well. This is because the change of a paradigm is made possible only by comparing the previous paradigm with the challenging paradigm. To elaborate, in every academic field, a new theory gains its significance by encompassing the scope of explanation of previous theories and by explaining the phenomena that could not be explained by previous theories. In other words, the previous achievements work sort of as a gauge that measures the significance of previous works.
In brief, although some early works are indeed realized without relying on past achievements, in most cases, especially in most of modern academic fields, it is in general impossible to engender significant achievements without relying on previous works. Therefore, rather than blindly seeking for the novelty, students should first thoroughly learn the past achievements to make a significant contribution to their fields.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, similarly, so, therefore, well, except for, for example, in brief, in general, sort of, such as, in most cases, in other words, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 14.8657303371 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2468.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 444.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.55855855856 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5903493882 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05146186731 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502252252252 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 759.6 704.065955056 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.7805221958 60.3974514979 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.894736842 118.986275619 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3684210526 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.94736842105 5.21951772744 191% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.168536394833 0.243740707755 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0549153948387 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0370264650071 0.0758088955206 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106180223876 0.150359130593 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0311234486997 0.0667264976115 47% => 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: 16.4 14.1392134831 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.26 12.1639044944 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.12 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 11.8971910112 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => 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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