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.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
According to the statement above, imagination is more important than experience. The author supports this thesis by arguing that inexperienced people can imagine what is possible without the limitations imposed by habits. In other words, unlike experience, imagination lacks constraints and permits us to foresee a possible situation.
At first glance, the author’s reasoning seems to be convincing. If we had the power of imagination, we would be able to foresee all possible situations. We do not have to have a certain experience before foreseeing a situation. A person might be able to solve a problem that he has never seen before just through the power of his fantasy. It is not necessary to be a plumber to fix a problem with your pipe: you could find the solution by imaginating the responsibile for the problem.
Yet, there are some problems. First of all, imagining possible situations does not involve identifying which situations is more likely to happen. In other words, when an inexperienced person imagines what is possible, she gives the same likelihood to all the situations. This can be disadvantageous, since if we want to implement a plan is important to know whether it is viable or not.
Second, the capacity of imagination supposed by the author does not seem to be held by the majority of people. Consider this though experiment. Suppose you don't have any experience about the world. Suppose, for example, that you have been confined in your room since your birth. It seems very hard to think that you can imagine how hard becoming a university professor is – you do not even know what a university professor is. The point is that our imagination is not a tool that enables us to create ex nihilo. Imagination is just a way to put representations of things we have already experienced together. Since this is the case – imagination depends on experience – it seems that, contrary to what the author argues, experience is more significant.
In conclusion, the author’s thesis and the reasons he offers are questionable. First, the capacity of imagining thought by the author is very rare; experience is, instead, a feature of the whole human species (and, more in general, animals). Second, unlike experience, imagination is not able to discriminate which situations are more likely to happen, a condition extremely important for implementing a plan.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, second, so, for example, in conclusion, in general, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 14.8657303371 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 58.6224719101 87% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2006.0 2235.4752809 90% => OK
No of words: 394.0 442.535393258 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09137055838 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45527027702 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08960298879 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.505076142132 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 651.6 704.065955056 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.7592112474 60.3974514979 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.2173913043 118.986275619 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1304347826 23.4991977007 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.95652173913 5.21951772744 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.283217616722 0.243740707755 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0765903135249 0.0831039109588 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0594675457165 0.0758088955206 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164437150916 0.150359130593 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0712777131403 0.0667264976115 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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