The government is spending a lot of money to discover life on other planets. Some people think that government is wasting money and should spend more money addressing the problems of public.
To what extent do you agree?
Since the first rocket had been launched the mankind has been trying to find life in other worlds. This endeavor would be impossible if government didn’t spent resources on it. There are two distinctive prospects on this situation. Some believe that the money that has been invested for decades is wasted, at the same time, there are those who support the search and I am one of them. Below both points of view will be discussed in details.
Primarily, those who argue against the idea state that there are many Earthly problems that demand our immediate attention. For instance, environmental issues that might have been alleviated significantly if government had spent the resources devoted to search for extra-terrestrial life on financing such ecologically friendly projects as construction of plants powered by solar energy and wind. From this point of view, politicians misusing limited resources on pursuing vague, if not useless, goals.
However, there is an alternative position on the issue. Many scientists claim that searching for alien life forms has increased the volume of our knowledge about the universe, its creation and development, and the more we know about the nature, the better we understand ourselves. For example, while looking for other civilization, astronomers have collected huge volume of data about other star systems and their mechanics. In fact, there has been found more then 10 000 Earth-like planets or Super-Earths. All the gathered information is used to better understand the Solar system and its origin. Consequently, it is hardly possible to say that the finances were wasted.
Furthermore, the search for aliens might be bringing some fruits in the future. Many pundits aver that this discovery is only matter of time. If the mankind contacts another life form, it will have a tremendous impact on all scientific fields from biology to philosophy. Having in mind this prospect makes the spending reasonable.
To sum up, although search for life in the space is seemed by some as meaningless, it appears that there are some benefits that outweigh the drawbacks.
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Essay evaluation report
flaws:
Don't make a lot of clauses in one sentence, like:
For instance, environmental issues that might have been alleviated significantly if government had spent the resources devoted to search for extra-terrestrial life on financing such ecologically friendly projects as construction of plants powered by solar energy and wind.
it is hard to read.
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You are good at topics with one question. You may practice more topics with two or more questions.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 7.5 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 340 350
No. of Characters: 1722 1500
No. of Different Words: 213 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.294 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.065 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.735 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 119 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.895 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.759 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.579 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.257 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.492 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.033 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Since” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
Since the first rocket had been launched the ...
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Line 5, column 461, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[2]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...ics. In fact, there has been found more then 10 000 Earth-like planets or Super-Eart...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, furthermore, however, if, look, so, then, while, for example, for instance, in fact, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1784.0 1615.20841683 110% => OK
No of words: 339.0 315.596192385 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26253687316 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84616897899 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.604719764012 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 542.7 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 57.5468495158 49.4020404114 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.8947368421 106.682146367 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8421052632 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.05263157895 7.06120827912 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.110222267458 0.244688304435 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0278405277012 0.084324248473 33% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0264944535212 0.0667982634062 40% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0603745381545 0.151304729494 40% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0192199283831 0.056905535591 34% => 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: 12.3 13.0946893788 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.93 12.4159519038 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 78.4519038076 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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