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.
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.
Scientific discoveries have changed the shape of our world. These discoveries have shaped modern civilisation from time immemorial. The prompt suggests that a significant amount of the discoveries are not deliberate, that is, astonishing or unexpected results of conducted experiments have provided many remarkable inventions or creations. I mostly agree with the prompt and argue that not all discoveries are planned, a significant amount of those are unintentional or sudden for three reasons.
To begin, from our history of human civilisation, we have seen many groundbreaking inventions and discoveries to be accidental. For instance, when scientist Archimedes were ordered to identify impurity in the crown, he was not able to solve the problem through his planned experiments. Rather, he found the method to solve the problem surprisingly during his bath. Another famous example is the invention of gravity and gravitational law by renowned scientist Isaac Newton. We all know how he accidentally discovered gravity while sitting on a bench under a tree and an apple falling on him. Numerous examples like that show that all discoveries are not systematically planned, many of them (including some groundbreaking inventions) are unintentional. These examples are compatible with the statement of the prompt.
Secondly, in most of the discoveries, scientists found some unexpected results while conducting experiment on another topic. A famous example is the invention of X-ray by scientist Roentgen. He was not aware of X-ray or trying to prove the existence of X-ray, rather he discovered X-ray accidentally. Another example is the invention of electric charge by scientist Franklin. He discovered the existence of charge unexpectedly while conducting a biological research. These example show us that in many of the important discoveries, scientists were seeking the answer of one question while seeking the question of other.
However, there are a lot of vital discoveries which were not accidental, rather a result of systematic effort of years. For example, theory of relativity was invented by Einstein through his systematic research. There are also many example supporting this statement.
So I mostly agree with the prompt that many groundbreaking inventions were accidental. But not all of them are accidental, a lot of inventions were a result of systematic approach of scientists conducting research years after years. So many inventions are unintentional, but there are also lots of example where they were results of experiments.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 445, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'biological research'.
Suggestion: biological research
...of charge unexpectedly while conducting a biological research. These example show us that in many of ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, second, secondly, so, while, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 12.4196629213 0% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2170.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 390.0 442.535393258 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.5641025641 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44391917772 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.23811131549 2.79657885939 116% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 215.323595506 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.466666666667 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 688.5 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.8449975856 60.3974514979 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.347826087 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9565217391 23.4991977007 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.39130434783 5.21951772744 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.152834205123 0.243740707755 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0481731179081 0.0831039109588 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0516398277521 0.0758088955206 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0849497977134 0.150359130593 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.024629980249 0.0667264976115 37% => 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: 13.2 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 38.31 48.8420337079 78% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.67 12.1639044944 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 100.480337079 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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