It has been said, “Not everything that is learned is contained in books.” Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?

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It has been said, “Not everything that is learned is contained in books.” Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?

Knowledge of each person is an important character which has direct relationship with him/her value in society. The source people gain their knowledge is also plays an essential role in accuracy and quality of knowledge. Some people believe that books are the best source for gaining of different kind of knowledge. Others believe that experience is the best way for obtain knowledge. In my view, experience is more important than books in gaining knowledge for two important reasons.
First of all, the knowledge which is based on experience remains longer in our memory than those obtained from books. When you learn something by reading books, your obtained knowledge doesn’t go deep memory and it’s the reason of why we need to practice to get mastery in a lot of skills such as using software, swimming, driving and etc. My own experience learning an air pollution modelling software is a good example of this. During university studies when I had needed to learn an air pollution model to pass a course, I started to read two rudimentary and famous books in this category. The result of this reading only was a shallow knowledge which I couldn’t use them in real condition. After three years and during my first experience of working on a company, I was asked to work on an air pollution modelling project. Today, after about five years of finishing that project, I can remember all things that I had learned during working. As you can see the experience based knowledge is highly durable in memory.
Secondly, we cannot be sure about the validity of books information as well as the books based knowledge. This is because of the fact that books are based on author’s knowledge and considering that we cannot be sure about author’s knowledge so it’s logical that we be skeptical about the information which books give us. For example, I had read a book about an historical building 3 years ago. Based on this book, building has 10 meters height, 20 meters width, and 25 meters length. Also the book had mentioned that there are a lot of three around the building. However when last year I went to visit that place I found all dimensions in different magnitudes in a way that it was so bigger than what the book had given and also there were no threes around the building. This examples demonstrates how a book can give us wrong information.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that knowledge gained from experiences is more important than knowledge gained from reading books. This is because books are sometimes inaccurate, and because our personal memories stay with us longer than the facts we read about in print.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, well, for example, in conclusion, kind of, such as, as well as, first of all, in my view

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.0286738351 163% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 43.0788530466 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 59.0 52.1666666667 113% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2206.0 1977.66487455 112% => OK
No of words: 451.0 407.700716846 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89135254989 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60833598836 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72127041255 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 212.727598566 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.476718403548 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 677.7 618.680645161 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.994623655914 101% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.4529998007 48.9658058833 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.272727273 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 20.6045352989 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.18181818182 5.45110844103 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.5376344086 181% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.88709677419 225% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.278245181825 0.236089414692 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0882740568522 0.076458572812 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107525807799 0.0737576698707 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.194562524343 0.150856017488 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0823419906523 0.0645574589148 128% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 11.7677419355 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 10.9000537634 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.67 8.01818996416 96% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 86.8835125448 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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