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Imagination is a more valuable asset than experience.

Many people tend to believe that creativity is the key to success in various fields. That is, they typically think that having a profound imaginative skill is more important than having deep knowledge and experience in a particular area. In regard to this issue, the given prompt contends that imagination is a more valuable asset than experience with the given reason. However, I mostly disagree with this position for two reasons that will be listed below. However, I do concede that imagination can be more important since it is not restricted by conventions as given in the prompt.
First of all, having profound knowledge and accumulated experience in one’s field is more crucial than being armed with imaginative skills because imagination is based on experience. For instance, Albert Einstein was able to come up with the relativity theory since he had studied the Lorentz transformation and classical mechanics that forms the basis of this new theory. Were it not for those old theories, he would not have been able to devise the ingenious theory that significantly changed the whole perspective of viewing the universe. Furthermore, Isaac Newton was able to construct the theory of gravity due to the combination of his experience of observing a falling apple from a tree and his background knowledge in classical physics including the action-reaction law, the acceleration law, and Kapler’s theorem. If he were unaware of these past theories and did not experience the apple falling off the tree, he would have not been able to come up with the groundbreaking theory that is still applied in our real lives. These examples present that experience forms the basis of imagination. That is, experience is the prerequisite element that activates imaginative skills. If a person does not have any experience in a particular field, he or she cannot come up with brilliant ideas.
Secondly, experience enables people to do work more efficiently than imagination. For example, suppose that worker A worked longer than worker B but has little creativity whereas worker B is more creative but has little experience in the field. In this case, worker A is able to finish the given task faster than worker B because he has more internalized experience and knowledge. Worker A is able to have more spare time and strength to think about how to become more efficient or how to increase his or her creativity. On the other hand, worker B, due to his shallow knowledge and experience in the field, has to go through various trials and errors that are time-consuming and arduous. That is, worker B has no time to do more work or think about the future plan and strategy to become a better employee. These examples show that having more experience is better than having creativity and imagination since the former contributes more to increasing efficiency than the latter.
Admittedly, people who have great imaginative skills can be more advantageous than those with great experience due to their freedom from established habits and attitudes. For instance, the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s in the United States was successful since African Americans and females were able to conceive the idealized world in which all people have equal rights and treatment from others and to come out of the entrenched convention that has ruled the past American society. If they were accustomed to conventions and were not able to come up with the new social doctrine that would revolutionize the world, then the Civil Rights Movement would have not been very successful. Furthermore, various inventions such as light bulbs and refrigerators were able to be invented because of breaking stereotypes that constrained people’s perspectives. These examples indicate that imagination, in some cases, can help people considerably improve the world and solve problems.
In conclusion, having deep experience is more crucial than having imagination and creativity due to the above two reasons discussed above. However, it should not be denied that imagination sometimes plays an important role in enhancing the condition of society and in resolving some social issues.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, then, whereas, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, first of all, in regard to, in some cases, on the other hand

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Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.5258426966 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 28.0 14.8657303371 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 11.3162921348 203% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 52.0 33.0505617978 157% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 85.0 58.6224719101 145% => OK
Nominalization: 38.0 12.9106741573 294% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3484.0 2235.4752809 156% => OK
No of words: 674.0 442.535393258 152% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16913946588 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.0952438579 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90705489008 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 297.0 215.323595506 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.440652818991 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1109.7 704.065955056 158% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.893515259 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.037037037 118.986275619 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.962962963 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.40740740741 5.21951772744 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
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: 0.367787405394 0.243740707755 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116645467197 0.0831039109588 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.122575295395 0.0758088955206 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.224026785868 0.150359130593 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101221355677 0.0667264976115 152% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 150.0 100.480337079 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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