Gre analytical Writing issue essay Topic 101

GRE Analytical Writing ISSUE Essay Topic - 160 
"In any field of inquiry, the beginner is more likely than the expert to make important 
discoveries." 
GRE AWA Analytical Writing ISSUE Essay Sample 
Solution - 160 
A person who is constantly working to achieve his aim in life and in the end does achieve it is an 
expert. An expert is an expert because he knows all the aspects related to his field and he knows 
the answers to all the related questions. The experience an expert has gone through to reach his 
aim can never be felt by a beginner and most of the times what procedure a beginner goes 
through an expert has already gone through. Therefore, I do not agree that in any field of inquiry, 
the beginner is more likely than the expert to make important discoveries. It can be by chance 
that beginners discover something but otherwise an expert is an expert because he has already 
gone through all the stages of learning. 
We see so many scientific creations around us. There is so much of hard work that has gone into 
making the perfect creations. There must be so many failures before the actual creation was 
made. If there were many failures they do not make an expert less trained but he is learning from 
his experiences. His experiences provide a yardstick for the newcomers in the same field. A new 
chef can make a dish nicely the very first time but making the same dish again and again with the 
same flavor is an expert's work. Similarly, Newton did not become an expert in his field after 
discovering that apple fell from the tree because of some force but when he researched and 
studied on it then only was he able to prove that the force is gravity. A newcomer can make a 
film and that can be appreciated by every one but mastering the techniques of good film making 
is not that easy, one has to put in real hard work to master it. There are film directors who are 
one film wonders and there are those directors who keep making good films after good films. 
"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it." Robert 
Heinlein has described in these lines the true meaning of an expert. 
Although there is no comparison between experts and beginners but still there are beginners who 
have created history. Madam Curie is one such example who discovered radium. Radium is used 
till date and Madam Curie won Nobel Prize for this discovery of hers. A beginner has many 
ideas and his area of thinking is vast as compared to an expert's restricted vision. 
All the important discoveries are made by experts and there contribution in the history can not be 
denied. In any field of enquiry we need to trust our experts as they have put in so many years of 
research into it. There has been so much practice gone by an expert into discovering something 
and such practices make a perfectionist. 

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