In any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field.
As a great scientist once said,” I’m not greater than others ,I’m just standing on the shoulder of the giant people.” It seems quite plausible to make the statement that only by studying the past achievements within one field could one make a significant contributions in that field. Thus, I agree much with the claim, despite that it needs to be amended in special cases.
It is natural for a tyro in a field to get familiar with past achievements done by precedent scientists before starting his own research. In natural science area, for example, if the modern physicians do not know about the Einstein’s theories, they could not make the great discovery of gravitational waves, which was predicated by the genius a century ago. Most great scientists,such as Fleming,Maxwell, Newton, has already learned a lot about the field they were interested in before they really entered into it. It is the same in social science and art literature areas. Many economic theories derive from the fundamental principles established by Adam Smith, and modern sociological analysis are often based on the social conflict view by Marx or social functionalism perspective by other sociologists. When it comes to this area, they could not ignore the influence of Marx Weber neither. Historians usually base their remarks on the views of precedent people, as well as the literature critics. From so many cases, we could easily figure out that without a comprehensive master of the past achievements in this area, we could hardly make new discovery or greater achievement.
As college students, the statement has a more profound educational meaning to us. When we write essays, first we should review the related literature on this theme and make a summary of them. Only after rounded examination are we able to find the defects or deficiencies of them, then we could come to a conclusion and make our researches. If we do not complete this essential step, rushing to our own theory or experiment at the beginning, we would get little support for our findings and stop at the superficial meanings of them. For example, when writing on a paper on the theme of subjective well-being, the student must begin by reading lots of essays by precedent researchers and know more about the field, such as Easterlin’s paradox and other practical surveys on national happiness. He should command a basic knowledge about the phenomena, causes and effects of the newly founded theory. Otherwise, he is not likely to write a paper of high quality.
However, getting familiar with past achievements does not mean that we should only obey the rules founded by former people and do not violate a little. Most great achievements come from challenges to old theories. After examining many times on the classic physical system established by Newton, Einstein found that it could not explain situations when objects move in high speed, and thus he established his theory of relativity at last, which have influenced generations of scientists. Therefore, it is not only we should learn about the past knowledge about the field, but keep a critical mind and raise our own questions that pushes forward people’s understanding of that field.
After all, it is substantial that we need know past achievements of the field we study in if we want to come up with our own ideas, but critical views and innovative spirits are also needed in order to achieve the final success.
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- In any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field. 83
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'really', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'thus', 'well', 'after all', 'for example', 'such as', 'as well as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.217868338558 0.240241500013 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.133228840125 0.157235817809 85% => OK
Adjectives: 0.115987460815 0.0880659088768 132% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0626959247649 0.0497285424764 126% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0658307210031 0.0444667217837 148% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.137931034483 0.12292977631 112% => OK
Participles: 0.0313479623824 0.0406280797675 77% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.90360385244 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0188087774295 0.030933414821 61% => OK
Particles: 0.00313479623824 0.0016655270985 188% => Less particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.0862068965517 0.0997080785238 86% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0203761755486 0.0249443105267 82% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0109717868339 0.0148568991511 74% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3458.0 2732.02544248 127% => OK
No of words: 573.0 452.878318584 127% => OK
Chars per words: 6.03490401396 6.0361032391 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89258810929 4.58838876751 107% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.34554973822 0.366273622748 94% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.265270506108 0.280924506359 94% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.183246073298 0.200843997647 91% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.137870855148 0.132149295362 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90360385244 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Unique words: 295.0 219.290929204 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514834205934 0.48968727796 105% => OK
Word variations: 63.874630477 55.4138127331 115% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6194690265 107% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0454545455 23.380412469 111% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.9409767256 59.4972553346 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 157.181818182 141.124799967 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0454545455 23.380412469 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.681818181818 0.674092028746 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.21349557522 115% => OK
Readability: 52.5725051563 51.4728631049 102% => OK
Elegance: 1.47904191617 1.64882698954 90% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.269450054295 0.391690518653 69% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0934465202179 0.123202303941 76% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0726010593577 0.077325440228 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.500676178262 0.547984918172 91% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.18245734764 0.149214159877 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103626382356 0.161403998019 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0666207691015 0.0892212321368 75% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.381555544235 0.385218514788 99% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0435129723098 0.0692045440612 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.203480413092 0.275328986314 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0493038606562 0.0653680567796 75% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.4325221239 105% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30420353982 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88274336283 123% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 7.22455752212 152% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.70907079646 221% => OK
Total topic words: 20.0 13.5995575221 147% => OK
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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