Many important discoveries or creations are accidental it is usually while seeking the answer to one question that we come across the answer to another

Whether it is the early discovery of gravity as it relates to our understanding today, or the more recent knowledge about the existence of antimatter, almost all scientific discoveries have been accidental in nature. Thus, the prompt that ‘many important discoveries or creations’ have been out of the blue is true insofar as it rightfully asserts that research in any field has overarching relations with other domains, which might lead to significant revelations of unexpected nature. Arguably, though history is replete with such examples of ‘eureka’, it does not sufficiently corroborate the fact that dedicated research into a matter of interest is not fruitful, rather it is based on chance whether we come across such fortuitous discoveries. In my opinion, I mostly agree with the prompt, while arguing that there are many instances where efforts targeted towards a dedicated cause has also led to significant creations.

Such examples where people have accidentally arrived at important discoveries is well present in history. One of such discoveries pertains to the law of buoyancy, better known as Archimedes’ principle. It is said that Archimedes’ was taking a bath when he suddenly discovered that the amount of water he displaced was related to his volume. This was a radical discovery at that time and eventually the principles that he formulated based on this observation is closely related to how large, heavy ships are able to float today, advancing transport methods via sea routes. Another scientific example which shows how people unexpectedly arrived at conclusive evidence regarding contrasting characteristics of certain physical phenomenon is Young’s double slit experiment. His observations on how light passed through a couple of slits formed alternating bright and dark fringes led to formulation of the wave-particle duality of light. Earlier it was believed that light was of particulate nature. This eventually paved the way for further discoveries on electrons. Similar to these, but more recent, is the discovery of antimatter. In the CERN Large Hadron Collider, scientists replicated the Big Bang of our Universe, albeit a smaller extent to study the creation of our Universe. What came as a surprise to many people, was traces of a certain type of matter which was unprecedented. Further studies revealed that this was in direct contrast with the ‘matter’ we know of, hence the name ‘antimatter’. Such important revelation led to the knowledge that ‘antimatter’ has been present ever since the beginning, but we were oblivious to this, due to its absence in substantial quantities.

Arguably, many evidences exist as to how dedicated research has facilitated people to make inventions that served beneficial at the community, national or even global levels. For example, the recent coronavirus crisis, better known as COVID-19, became a widespread disease, costing millions of lives. Dedicated research towards mitigating and controlling the disease, through strict government vigilance, help save many lives both internationally. Concerted efforts to deal with such a menace led to cooperation and knowledge sharing amongst nations to develop dedicated vaccines to inoculate the people. At a national level, India’s dedicated endeavours towards developing nuclear power sources became successful and helped in establishing the country as a global economic power. It also helped generate millions of jobs towards the nuclear power facilities thereby uplifting the socio-economic conditions of people in these lesser-known areas of the country.

In conclusion, accidental discoveries although present ubiquitously in history does not disprove that dedicated research is futile. What is certain is that any targeted approach towards solving problems or matter of interest is likely to bring new knowledge, discoveries, and creations whether by chance or through sheer meticulousness. As evident from the presented examples, in my opinion, people should be open to ideas even when following a focused methodology, questioning each and every observation and questioning their earlier perceived knowledge, so as to be able to accept anything new. As such, my opinion stands in agreement with the prompt, insofar as it does not pronounce a judgement on dedicated efforts or research towards matters of concern as unpropitious.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, regarding, so, thus, well, while, as to, for example, in conclusion, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 12.4196629213 16% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 89.0 58.6224719101 152% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3727.0 2235.4752809 167% => OK
No of words: 667.0 442.535393258 151% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.58770614693 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.08196252842 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17452875995 2.79657885939 114% => OK
Unique words: 356.0 215.323595506 165% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533733133433 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 1168.2 704.065955056 166% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.4000473179 60.3974514979 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.037037037 118.986275619 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7037037037 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.85185185185 5.21951772744 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.142424683481 0.243740707755 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0365588788229 0.0831039109588 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0321648662504 0.0758088955206 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0828391832884 0.150359130593 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0479159815448 0.0667264976115 72% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 14.1392134831 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 48.8420337079 62% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.44 12.1639044944 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.61 8.38706741573 115% => OK
difficult_words: 202.0 100.480337079 201% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 21.0 11.8971910112 177% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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