Currently, most scientific research in developing new medicine and treatments involve laboratory testing on animals. This has been viewed by some to be a morally flawed practice that should be banned, but believed by others to be necessary for the discovery of crucial scientific breakthroughs. While I believe that there are valid concerns on the morality of animal testing, there are limited alternatives beside it that can also provide the same effect.
Some people argue that animal testing should be stopped due to the ethical issue surrounding it, as the experimentation done on them could hurt or even lead these animals to become sick. For example, some injections of drugs have led to the growth of tumors in animals. Unfortunately, animal experimentation remains an irreplaceable stage in medical research in the modern age. In developing a new treatment for cancer, for instance, scientists must always inject the newly developed drug to an animal, often mice or primates, to monitor its effects on living creatures. Without this important step, researchers would not be able to ensure the safety of these medicines on humans. Furthermore, testing on these lab animals is done to avoid the difficult choice of having to directly test an unknown treatment on humans, risking their health and raising a bigger ethical issue.
To this day, there are very few avenues other than animal experimentations to safely screen potential new drugs. Recent ventures have been made by scientists to come up with new technologies such as stem cells and artificial tissues as an alternative to this practice, but these are early developments; science has long to go still before stem cells can be constructed into a full working replica of living tissues capable of producing the same responses as an animal or humans. Unless researchers are able to create these living models, thus eliminating the need to test on animals, there is no other choice but to continue with our current methods.
To conclude, although experimenting on animals may seem unethical due to the harm it may cause them, it is a necessary way of ensuring the safety of treatments for humans. Without this quality assurance process, scientists might have to test on humans instead, an approach that brings more risk than is necessary. Until scientific research is able to catch up to people's desire for a more ethical procedure, there may be no other choice but to follow the tried and true path.
- The diagram below illustrates how fossils were exposed beneath a cliff as a result of coastal erosion 61
- The table below shows how the UK unemployed spent their time last year Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant 78
- Many people say that the only way to guarantee getting a good job is to complete a course of university education Others claim that it is better to start work after school and gain experience in the world of work How far do you agree or disagree with the 78
- Writing task 1 People s coffee and tea buying and drinking habits 67
- Do you believe that experimentation on animals for scientific purposes is justified Are there any alternatives to animal experimentation 73
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, may, so, still, thus, while, for example, for instance, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 41.998997996 148% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2069.0 1615.20841683 128% => OK
No of words: 405.0 315.596192385 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10864197531 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86389951621 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 176.041082164 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555555555556 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 664.2 506.74238477 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 64.0010416582 49.4020404114 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.933333333 106.682146367 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0 20.7667163134 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.06666666667 7.06120827912 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.207279173051 0.244688304435 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0739891376841 0.084324248473 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0596695377887 0.0667982634062 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127718049509 0.151304729494 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.036777464327 0.056905535591 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.0946893788 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 50.2224549098 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 78.4519038076 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, may, so, still, thus, while, for example, for instance, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 41.998997996 148% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2069.0 1615.20841683 128% => OK
No of words: 405.0 315.596192385 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10864197531 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86389951621 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 176.041082164 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555555555556 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 664.2 506.74238477 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 64.0010416582 49.4020404114 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.933333333 106.682146367 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0 20.7667163134 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.06666666667 7.06120827912 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.207279173051 0.244688304435 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0739891376841 0.084324248473 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0596695377887 0.0667982634062 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127718049509 0.151304729494 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.036777464327 0.056905535591 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.0946893788 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 50.2224549098 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 78.4519038076 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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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.