In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing
and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be
used to challenge your position
Although the above statement says that imagination is far more important than knowledge in most professional and academic realms, it is short-sighted to hold such a belief as completely true. Such a dichotomy does not reflect reality, especially in the ever-analyzing and critical worlds of academia, where the point is to question what is given in order to evolve a theory, whether philosphical, scientific or business practices.
Instead, a combination of imagination and knowledge is crucial in professional and academic fields. Without knowledge and an in-depth understanding of what has come before, imagination is not grounded and has no relevant basis for the subject at hand. The same is true without imagination and creativity: if a person or team is completely knowlegeable in the history, contexts, and people in their respective fields, but lacks the imagination to take the field or project to the next level, then you only have a stagnant historian who never tries anything innovative.
Some may say that knowlege is more important than anything else because without it, a person, group or company can have no proficiency in their field, and therefore cannot compete with their peers or be critiqued by their peers so as to improve. Their competition and peers will instead not be interested in the processes the unimagative, knowlegeable person is engaging in. With some knowledge and imagination, a person can use what they know and apply it towards what they hope to discover.
On the other hand, many say that imagination is far more important than knowledge. Without the constraints of knowledge, mistakes made for lack of knowledge may turn out to be great discoveries. Likewise, if a person, group or company is thinking "outside the box," that is outside the constraints of a certain field with its cultural taboos and whatnot, who knows what they may come up with. This is too idealistic, though, and unrealistic, too. At least a basic supply of knowlege on the subject will greatly compliment any creativity if the discoveries are to be of any specific use.
In agreeing that a combination is necessary, one also must recognize that we should avoid extremes to be the most productive. If someone is too heavily well-read and fluent in what has been done in the past in their field, and has been taught to follow precedent, creativity will suffer. The same is true for the student of a truly creative type. If they are taught to always be capricious and be completely creative, something may be discovered, but it may not contribute anything to the field initially focused on. In this case, a person needs to have some knowledge in certain fields to see what is possible.
Without any knowledge on a subject, imagination will likely flounder and amount to very little that is of use - and it will not be of use to others in the field. Without imagination, knowledge is stagnant and ceases to push the industry or field forward with new ideas and discoveries. Therefore, a balance of the two, not necessarily equal, but a balance all the same, is necessary for the ultimate productivity in most professions and academic fields.
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Essay evaluation report
Sentence: Such a dichotomy does not reflect reality, especially in the ever-analyzing and critical worlds of academia, where the point is to question what is given in order to evolve a theory, whether philosphical, scientific or business practices.
Error: philosphical Suggestion: philosophical
Sentence: The same is true without imagination and creativity: if a person or team is completely knowlegeable in the history, contexts, and people in their respective fields, but lacks the imagination to take the field or project to the next level, then you only have a stagnant historian who never tries anything innovative.
Error: knowlegeable Suggestion: knowledgeable
Sentence: Some may say that knowlege is more important than anything else because without it, a person, group or company can have no proficiency in their field, and therefore cannot compete with their peers or be critiqued by their peers so as to improve.
Error: knowlege Suggestion: knowledge
Sentence: Their competition and peers will instead not be interested in the processes the unimagative, knowlegeable person is engaging in.
Error: knowlegeable Suggestion: knowledgeable
Error: unimagative Suggestion: No alternate word
Sentence: At least a basic supply of knowlege on the subject will greatly compliment any creativity if the discoveries are to be of any specific use.
Error: knowlege Suggestion: knowledge
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flaws:
for GRE issue essays, better not to argue in both side like: 'on the one hand', 'on the other hand...', only need to support or against one side always. for example, for this topic, if we agree, then
Yes, imagination is more important than knowledge. with 3-4 arguments.
if we don't agree, then:
no, imagination is not more important than knowledge or equally important. with 3-4 arguments.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 526 350
No. of Characters: 2556 1500
No. of Different Words: 240 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.789 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.859 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.884 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 179 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 146 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 110 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 76 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.048 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.44 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.476 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.295 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.541 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.065 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 10, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'saith', 'says'.
Suggestion: saith; says
...er tries anything innovative. Some may say that knowlege is more important than an...
^^^
Line 3, column 229, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ir peers or be critiqued by their peers so as to improve. Their competition and peers wi...
^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 268, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , &apos
...ompany is thinking 'outside the box,' that is outside the constraints of a c...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, likewise, may, so, then, therefore, well, as to, at least, all the same, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.5258426966 174% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 32.0 14.8657303371 215% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2640.0 2235.4752809 118% => OK
No of words: 526.0 442.535393258 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01901140684 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78901763229 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00565785923 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480988593156 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 838.8 704.065955056 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.7192571338 60.3974514979 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.714285714 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0476190476 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.21951772744 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.158647898284 0.243740707755 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.049836185953 0.0831039109588 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0481411770088 0.0758088955206 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0861761874325 0.150359130593 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0157837869668 0.0667264976115 24% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.5 11.8971910112 139% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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