The first step to self knowledge is the rejection of the familiar

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The first step to self-knowledge is the rejection of the familiar.

Self-knowledge is the perceptive awareness of one's capabilities and strengths. For an individual to properly recognize his or her skills, they must first understand what their potentials are. Rejection of the familiar would be detrimental in acquiring self-knowledge as this is one of the major sources with which we can fully understand this concept. In my opinion, familiarity bolsters self-knowledge for two reasons.

First of all, inchoate traits in humans are effective indications of their personality. For one to fully understand themselves, they need to contemplate the little things they find of interest. For instance, a reticent young girl who spends more time reading books and articles and less time engaging in social activities would be more likely to choose a literary profession. This awareness of predilection for specific materials would shape her strengths and subsequently give hints on personal knowledge. Her awareness of what she is familiar with would support her important life decisions - career choices and social interactions. For this reason, the familiar traits exhibited by individuals would be a precursor for knowledge about themselves.

Secondly, familiar traits in humans are what shapes and build their individual personalities. For example, a person who has developed interests in science and technology is very likely to eschew quixotic personalities. Over time, the individual would have become overly familiar with thoughts that need technical justification. The idea of practicality and theory is what the individual is likely to display and this subsequently shapes their knowledge about themselves.

However, some would argue that the rejection of what one is familiar with might help in building a solid foundation for self-knowledge, this fails to consider the impacts the familiar traits have made in the development of an individual's personality.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 47, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...nowledge is the perceptive awareness of ones capabilities and strengths. For an indi...
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Line 8, column 227, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'individuals'' or 'individual's'?
Suggestion: individuals'; individual's
...aits have made in the development of an individuals personality.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, second, secondly, so, for example, for instance, first of all, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 58.6224719101 60% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1623.0 2235.4752809 73% => OK
No of words: 286.0 442.535393258 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.67482517483 5.05705443957 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.55969084622 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.22949340473 2.79657885939 115% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 215.323595506 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.545454545455 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 498.6 704.065955056 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.163131934 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.2 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0666666667 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4 5.21951772744 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => 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: 0.231696122303 0.243740707755 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0888537455213 0.0831039109588 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0828758817418 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170751267018 0.150359130593 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.10670738994 0.0667264976115 160% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.61 12.1639044944 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 100.480337079 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 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: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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