Claim: Researchers should not limit their investigations to only those areas in which they expect to discover something that has an immediate, practical application.
Reason: It is impossible to predict the outcome of a line of research with any certainty.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
What is the purpose of research in any field? The goal is to analyze a mysterious problem in a particular field and find feasible solutions for the same. It is true that a number of innovations are a result of accidental discovery. However, one cannot deny the importance of focused research in a particular field. A research project can be successful when the scientists or researchers involved are deeply interested in it.
A well-defined problem statement is the first step of any kind of research. If researchers are not focused on something that has an immediate, practical application, how would they define a problem statement to work on? Moreover, the interest in a research domain is equally important for a researcher to contribute something valuable. For instance, if Einstein had not restrained his focus on the field of physics in which he expected to discover something valuable, it would have cost the world another decade or more to discover the same. Admittedly, the outcome of his research was not clear at the time. Nonetheless, it is his passion that helped him to uncover mysteries of physics, and a number of ground-breaking theories such as the photoelectric effect, theory of relativity, and Bose-Einstein quantum statistics.
In addition, modern research projects are goal-oriented and require a comprehensive literature review before starting the research work. For such projects, it is highly likely that the outcome is sure to be achieved. Researchers need to define a problem statement along with a lot of evidence supporting the feasibility of research work to get the funding for the project. There is no element of luck or chance in such determined projects. Any modern research project can be considered as an example here: a large hadron collider, genome sequencing, or a number of unicorn start-ups around the globe.
It can be argued that history is replete with examples of accidental discoveries where researchers' goals were not limited to certain areas. For example, fleming's discovery of penicillin, and Wilhelm Rontgen's discovery of X-rays. Despite these and many other examples, one cannot deny the fact that the basis for all these innovations was a focused, goal-oriented research project.
In conclusion, researchers should work on the projects in which they expect to discover something new. Undoubtedly, there are some projects where the outcome of a line of research cannot be predicted with certainty, and in others, there is a fair chance of not achieving the desired results. Nevertheless, deviating from their interests would not lead to fruitful outcomes, either in their field of interest or the new area that they are exploring.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, nonetheless, so, well, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, kind of, such as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2264.0 2235.4752809 101% => OK
No of words: 432.0 442.535393258 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24074074074 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55901411391 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07471546187 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 215.323595506 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.509259259259 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 711.0 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.229306293 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.909090909 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6363636364 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.04545454545 5.21951772744 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
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: 0.290177415566 0.243740707755 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0898056528377 0.0831039109588 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0701463074176 0.0758088955206 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16671484778 0.150359130593 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0724764766582 0.0667264976115 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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