Issue87 欢迎大家帮忙拍

fishydsUID: 2197003

感觉这篇挺难写，写的是反对题目中的观点，发现展开不容易，不知道平衡观点是否会好写些，欢迎拍砖哈

87"In any field of inquiry, the beginner is more likely than the expert to make important discoveries."

    Is the beginner more likely than the expert to make important discoveries? Although I agree that beginner indeed can make important discoveries because their few experiences make their thinking more free than experts, yet the statement fails to account for the essential roles that knowledge, experience and communication ability of the expert play in the important discoveries.

    Admittedly, compared with experts, beginners have few limitations in their minds because they have not enough time to be restricted by previous researchers’ thinking or methods. The beginner’s mind is probably more skeptical and curious than experts. As we all know, free mind and broad thinking are important factors in the field of inquiry. Thus I have to admit that in certain cases beginners might have the superiority over experts to make discoveries.
   
    However, free or broad thinking are not the only factors leading to make discoveries. Knowledge and experience are also essential in discoveries, and may be more determinative than the former ones. Consider when experts and beginners both encounter difficulties in inquiry or scientific research. Beginners may treat all the difficulties as problems, where as experts would resort to previous works and then propose new ideas or solutions basing old ones. Experience also plays an important role in discoveries. For instance, in scientific researches, it is a prevalent approach to pick useful information from numerous raw data. In order to discovery the trace of a new asteroid, astronomers must process astronomical photographs records by telescopes. Similarly, physicians also have to deal with experimental data to discovery new particles or explain a novel theory. Obviously, beginners are not qualified for this work. Their deficient experiences prevent them from important discoveries.

    In addition, inquiry requires interchanging ideas and achievements with other researchers and institutions. Contemporary researches emphasize cooperation and collaboration from different research groups in different nations, because the scale of the research is so large that no individual or even no single nation can entirely achieve the inquiry. A concrete example is the field of quantum mechanics. A series of novel theories and important discoveries in quantum mechanics is made by lots of physicists, It is research community including celebrated physicists such as N.Bohr, E.Schrodinger, P.Dirac and Einstein that constructed the theory of quantum mechanics. Research group, rather than the individual, makes most of the contributions in contemporary scientific researches. Thus, in order to make important discoveries, researchers not only need to have sufficient knowledge and experience in their research fields, they should also communicate with other researchers or research groups in a research community. However, unlike experts, the communication of beginners is incomprehensive, and maybe only with the colleagues in their laboratories. Insufficient communications with other research groups might impede beginners making important discoveries.

    In conclusion, while beginners may seem to have free mind and broad thinking which would help them make important discoveries, in many cases, experts are superior to beginners because experts have more knowledge and experience, and what is more important, experts have more communications with other researchers or research groups.

[ 本帖最后由 fishyds 于 2006-7-10 22:06 编辑 ]

chengnicoleUID: 2216897

will review your essay later... too busy these days...

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