Issue: - In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge.

In the given Issue prompt, the author opines that in most fields – whether professional or academic, ability to ideate and being creative is of much higher precedence than having knowledge in that particular field. This statement is not necessarily true. When can we have ideas? The prerequisites to being imaginative is having pertinent knowledge about the concerning field. We can’t imagine a person knowing nothing about Rocket Science designing a futuristic spaceship. That is simply not viable. Even though the author might seem very convincing, but his claim has several underlying flaws that not only make it seem specious but also render it invalid.

The author in his statement mentions “ Most Professions” . What exactly does he mean by it? Do most professions include artists, scientists, politicians, academicians, businessmen or somebody else? Whatever be the author’s intention behind mentioning most professions, all of them require a particular level of knowledge that needs to be at par with the ability to ideate. Even for imagining, pertinent information is required. Wright brothers, those who invented the airplanes, took their inspiration from birds, but without deep insight into mechanics of how atmosphere behaves and how to use it for their own advantage, could their invention be possible? The answer is clearly NO. Since, they had the determination to imagine and the diligence to keep building new models based on the failures of the previous ones, they succeeded. Hence, clearly imagination can’t be more important than knowledge.

Imagination and Knowledge go hand in hand. Each one is incomplete without the other. Consider politicians and Bureaucrats, their task is to devise the best policies possible for the betterment of society. If they base their stratagem purely on their imagination rather than on ground realities, obviously the results of their policies would be unanticipated and bad. Mark Zuckerberg, owner and founder of the multibillion-dollar social networking site Facebook, wouldn’t have been able to create Facebook had he not known programming.

Conversely, one might cite the example to Steve Jobs, father of Apple. They may say Steve Jobs, a college dropout, didn’t know anything about computers, but he still was able to establish one of the most precious and imaginative tech companies (that still makes awesome computers) among all. To those who believe that Steve Jobs single handedly built Apple, they are simply wrong. Very few people might know that Steve Jobs best friend, Stephen Wozniak, was the mastermind behind the design of Macintosh computers. It is unquestionable that Jobs was the person who because of his ability to create brought about a revolution in the tech industry, but this wouldn’t have been possible without Wozniak and thousand others who had the knowledge to implement Jobs’ s idea.

In conclusion, the author is at fault when he states that imagination and creativity are for more important than knowledge in any profession. While being innovative may be required, but undermining the importance of knowledge is an erroneous assumption. Both ideation and possessing adequate knowledge are necessities for any profession.

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Average: 5.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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... have been possible without Wozniak and thousand others who had the knowledge to impleme...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'conversely', 'hence', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'still', 'while', 'in conclusion']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.244107744108 0.240241500013 102% => OK
Verbs: 0.154882154882 0.157235817809 99% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0892255892256 0.0880659088768 101% => OK
Adverbs: 0.047138047138 0.0497285424764 95% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0454545454545 0.0444667217837 102% => OK
Prepositions: 0.10101010101 0.12292977631 82% => OK
Participles: 0.0387205387205 0.0406280797675 95% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.0700060998 2.79330140395 110% => OK
Infinitives: 0.023569023569 0.030933414821 76% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0774410774411 0.0997080785238 78% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.016835016835 0.0249443105267 67% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0252525252525 0.0148568991511 170% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3265.0 2732.02544248 120% => OK
No of words: 503.0 452.878318584 111% => OK
Chars per words: 6.49105367793 6.0361032391 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73578520332 4.58838876751 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.411530815109 0.366273622748 112% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.320079522863 0.280924506359 114% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.252485089463 0.200843997647 126% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.200795228628 0.132149295362 152% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0700060998 2.79330140395 110% => OK
Unique words: 287.0 219.290929204 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570576540755 0.48968727796 117% => OK
Word variations: 72.0286283225 55.4138127331 130% => OK
How many sentences: 29.0 20.6194690265 141% => OK
Sentence length: 17.3448275862 23.380412469 74% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.92040101 59.4972553346 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.586206897 141.124799967 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3448275862 23.380412469 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.344827586207 0.674092028746 51% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 49.3527798725 51.4728631049 96% => OK
Elegance: 1.55102040816 1.64882698954 94% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.251271702839 0.391690518653 64% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0632991688831 0.123202303941 51% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0598128531571 0.077325440228 77% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.417244008429 0.547984918172 76% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.16725889733 0.149214159877 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0819957907931 0.161403998019 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.093052799957 0.0892212321368 104% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.291244993566 0.385218514788 76% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0867510234722 0.0692045440612 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173984736118 0.275328986314 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0742016058256 0.0653680567796 114% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.4325221239 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30420353982 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88274336283 205% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 11.0 7.22455752212 152% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.70907079646 185% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.5995575221 132% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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