Some people believe that it is good to share as much information as possible in scientific research, business and the academic world. Others believe that some information is too important or too valuable to be shared freely. Discuss both these views and g

These days, information is viewed is both valuable and vital to be shared. The question is, should it be shared or are there situations when this freedom is too much?

To start with, there are a number of arguments for sharing as much information as possible. The most convincing point is related to science. Scientists need to share their research and they need others to view and check their own research and results, which is vital because if this was not done, important studies would not be replicated and more errors would result. However, the strongest argument is often academic freedom. Academics and universities as a group believe that spreading information is their purpose. It can even be said that preventing this, contradicts the existence of tertiary education.

On the other hand, others believe that there are clearly some circumstances when this should be limited. The first situation is business. Proponents of this view point out that in business knowledge is often a specific system or process, that companies have heavily invested in. They believe that in this situation businesses have the right to exploit whatever value they can for their company before sharing it. A related point is timing. It can be argued that information should be free but with a condition, that the release of the information be controlled by the owner of that information. In other words, the inventor, researcher or investor should have a period where they can utilize this knowledge for themselves before releasing it. Scientific research into drugs and medicine is a good example of this.

In conclusion, while there convincing arguments for the freedom of information in science and academia in general, there are undoubtedly periods of time when businesses - and to a certain extent - researchers should be able to restrict this. Therefore, I partly support both views.

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Average: 6.7 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, so, therefore, while, in conclusion, in general, in other words, to start with, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 13.1623246493 198% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 7.30460921844 192% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 24.0651302605 141% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 41.998997996 74% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.3376753507 192% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1578.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 305.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1737704918 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79125536935 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.544262295082 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 481.5 506.74238477 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 59.5813843245 49.4020404114 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.6666666667 106.682146367 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9444444444 20.7667163134 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.77777777778 7.06120827912 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.324967528659 0.244688304435 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0939266478115 0.084324248473 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0733421381717 0.0667982634062 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.205991824659 0.151304729494 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0712644621346 0.056905535591 125% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.0946893788 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.41 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.58950901804 96% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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