Claim Imagination is a more valuable asset than experience Reason People who lack experience are free to imagine what is possible without the constraints of established habits and attitudes

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Claim: Imagination is a more valuable asset than experience. 

Reason: People who lack experience are free to imagine what is possible without the constraints of established habits and attitudes.

The statement has fallen into a common trap by setting a binary approach between imagination and experience. As we’d have probably heard from elsewhere, imagination is regarded as an abstract and conceptual action that involves solely the activities within the brain, while experience is more or less linked to the physical actions of the body - activating movements in space and time - that happen in reality. Although, it seems reasonable to put a division between the mind and the body as a common sense, there needs to be placed a pause button on that habitual thought since the act of imagination and the act of experience are indeed closely intersected with an endless feedback and constantly influencing one another. In other words, I would like to clarify the claim by suggesting the following question: what makes an imagination a true imagination, and experience a true experience?
In terms of answering the first part of the question, instead of following the given instruction of the mind-body dichotomy which regards imagination as a purely mental activity, imagination indeed may be regarded as a reaction in taking new pieces of information from the exterior of the self. That is, imagination never happens unless you may have enough data of accumulated certain memories about the factors of the surrounding world. The activity of recreating the reality by imagining an abstract system of thought is based on the ability to recollect and reassemble the pieces of what you’d actually sensed.
For instance, we may look into the process of creating a literary work. In order to depict a certain place such as the New York City, one may just get a single plane ticket that bounds to that very place, and randomly start to live there for several weeks. Relying on the memory he or she gained through her living, the author comes back to his place and tries to create a delicate description of the mood and atmosphere of the city with characters that might be likely to live there as well. Meanwhile, there might be also an author who chooses not to go but searches for precedent literary works that had described the city with exactness and liveliness. By looking into thorough archives of documentaries, artworks, researches, and journals, the author will grasp the images among them and would likely be able to depict with as much liveliness as the former one who went there on foot. Thus, even though the given statement lies on the assumption that imagination has nothing to do with experience, fundamental wellspring of imagination stems from personal experiences that consist of not only physical activities done in different places but also those done in order to search for literary works. This, in turn, answers the latter part of the question, thereby blurring the boundaries between mind and body.
Once the dichotomy has been overcome and one admits the constant interaction between imagining and experiencing, we may be able to move to the next step, which is about the established habits and attitudes of a person. Ways of thinking, imagining, and experiencing are likely to be a set of habit, as cultural sociologist Pierre Bourdieu once noted. As he emphasized that individuals perceive the social world and react to it with ingrained habits, skills, and disposition, both imagination and experience can be shaped by personal history that is placed on a certain social structure. Thus, looking into one’s habitual thoughts and actions leads to an insightful understanding in one’s cultural basis and disposition.
In conclusion, one can appreciate the consideration for imaginative value, but as mentioned above, experience must be construed as equivalent and a mutual effect of imagination, so that through the lense of established habits (which is not anymore a constraint) we might be able to grasp a wider approach on understanding the social structure in which we reside.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 387, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...activating movements in space and time - that happen in reality. Although, it see...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, look, may, so, thus, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, such as, in other words, more or less

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 30.0 14.8657303371 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 97.0 58.6224719101 165% => OK
Nominalization: 35.0 12.9106741573 271% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3272.0 2235.4752809 146% => OK
No of words: 641.0 442.535393258 145% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10452418097 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.0316973083 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.912745078 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 325.0 215.323595506 151% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.507020280811 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 1040.4 704.065955056 148% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 33.0 23.0359550562 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 80.2319352559 60.3974514979 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 172.210526316 118.986275619 145% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.7368421053 23.4991977007 144% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.94736842105 5.21951772744 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208066430123 0.243740707755 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0622344424755 0.0831039109588 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0553634255301 0.0758088955206 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123725631171 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0498670755549 0.0667264976115 75% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.5 14.1392134831 138% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.98 48.8420337079 78% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.1743820225 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 165.0 100.480337079 164% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 11.8971910112 160% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.2143820225 136% => OK
text_standard: 20.0 11.7820224719 170% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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