In any field of inquiry, the beginner is more likely than the expert to make important contributions.
We all know what it feels like to be a beginner at something. Starting something new, whether it be a job, a hobby, or a relationship, is filled with nerves and doubt. You may ask yourself - will I ever be good at this? Is this right for me? With due time, most of us have likely come to experience that these initial fears die down as we gain experience. With experience comes knowledge. This knowledge allows us to succeed and contribute to our area of interest. However, this does not necessarily corroborate the idea that only experts can make valuable contributions to a field. While beginners may lack experience, they bring a curiosity and freshness to the table that cannot be duplicated by an expert. In any field, a beginner possesses qualities that experts do not, making the beginner a more likely candidate to make valuable contributions.
Think back to your first day at your most recent job. This day, your brain was likely filled to the brim with questions. In any field of inquiry, this is how a beginner’s mind will function. They will be inclined to ask about everything - about how things work, when things happen, and why you are doing things. This curiosity is something that can often be lost after being in a field for long periods of time. For example, let us consider employees in an application design company. The expert employee has been working there for 15 years, and has created several successful apps. The company’s new employee just started a few weeks ago, and is fresh out of college. Although the new employee doesn’t have a plethora of experience, like the expert, they have a great new idea of how to improve the company’s most recent app. The expert employee, having spent so many years creating similar apps, got so lost in the mundane that they failed to see this design improvement opportunity. This same scenario can happen in all types of fields. When you are exposed to a topic everyday, it can become mundane, and it can be hard to see areas for improvement. On the other hand, having a fresh set of curious eyes on a project can inspire new improvements.
Additionally, beginners may come into a field with a new skill set that is not possessed by current experts. Although experts may be extraordinarily knowledgable, it can be difficult to keep up with all current information and discoveries outside of that expert’s particular field. For instance, a professor who is researching a new exercise technique may be so engrossed in their work, that they fail to look into a new technique that is being introduced by students. Although the new technique has not yet been proven, it shows extraordinary potential. Once these students gain access to the same lab that the professor has access to, they prove that their technique is immensely effective. Since these students were open and available to learn new ideas, they were able to bring a different set of skills and ideas to the lab. Experts are much more likely to become engrossed in their work and stop learning, while beginners are always open to learning new skills that allow them to create innovative ideas within their field.
Some may argue that the knowledge experts possess is invaluable. This is often true - experts are necessary for teaching new students in nearly every field. They possess great knowledge that is important to their respective fields. However, an important consideration is that all experts were once beginners. Beginners will eventually gain the knowledge that they need to become an expert, but they also are able to spark new ideas with their curiosity, which is something that experts often lack. Without the contributions of newcomers, we may fall trap to becoming stuck in our ways,
Overall, both experts and beginners can provide value to any field that they belong to. It could even be argued that the collaboration between beginners and experts could provide the most valuable contributions. However, without the contributions of beginners, in particular, we would not be as likely to make significant and insightful contributions to respective fields.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1073, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...fields. When you are exposed to a topic everyday, it can become mundane, and it can be h...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 10, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'argues'.
Suggestion: argues
...e ideas within their field. Some may argue that the knowledge experts possess is i...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, may, so, while, as for, as to, for example, for instance, in particular, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 40.0 19.5258426966 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.4196629213 193% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 76.0 33.0505617978 230% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 86.0 58.6224719101 147% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3423.0 2235.4752809 153% => OK
No of words: 692.0 442.535393258 156% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94653179191 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.12892706869 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82418811472 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 323.0 215.323595506 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46676300578 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1044.9 704.065955056 148% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 23.0 6.24550561798 368% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 38.0 20.2370786517 188% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.2004231711 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.0789473684 118.986275619 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2105263158 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.34210526316 5.21951772744 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.264235397859 0.243740707755 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.068425849311 0.0831039109588 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0882065907195 0.0758088955206 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185803798262 0.150359130593 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0818674711404 0.0667264976115 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.1392134831 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.54 8.38706741573 90% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 11.8971910112 46% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1073, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...fields. When you are exposed to a topic everyday, it can become mundane, and it can be h...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 10, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'argues'.
Suggestion: argues
...e ideas within their field. Some may argue that the knowledge experts possess is i...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, may, so, while, as for, as to, for example, for instance, in particular, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 40.0 19.5258426966 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.4196629213 193% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 76.0 33.0505617978 230% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 86.0 58.6224719101 147% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3423.0 2235.4752809 153% => OK
No of words: 692.0 442.535393258 156% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94653179191 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.12892706869 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82418811472 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 323.0 215.323595506 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46676300578 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1044.9 704.065955056 148% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 23.0 6.24550561798 368% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 38.0 20.2370786517 188% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.2004231711 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.0789473684 118.986275619 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2105263158 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.34210526316 5.21951772744 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.264235397859 0.243740707755 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.068425849311 0.0831039109588 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0882065907195 0.0758088955206 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185803798262 0.150359130593 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0818674711404 0.0667264976115 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.1392134831 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.54 8.38706741573 90% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 11.8971910112 46% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.