Some people say that in all levels of education, from primary schools to universities, too much time is spent on learning facts and not enough on learning practical skills.
Do you agree or disagree?
There is an argument that in all stages of education, people are wasting too much time on studying theories and they do not invest enough time in learning practical skills. Personally, I agree with the argument and this essay will explain the problems with people who solely focus on studying and why practical skills are important.
Firstly, the major issue with people who focus on studying is that the job hunting after graduation. They usually have a hard time to enter the relevant job industry and experience the inconveniences such as communication and team working, during their first jobs. Therefore, employers prefer a candidate with previous job experiences compared to a fresh graduate. This can be seen on the report released from Singapore Ministry of Manpower that even though Singapore’s oil and gas industry is improving during last 5 years and demanding workforces from different professions, the employment percentage of fresh graduate for this industry has been dropped over the period.
Secondly, the practical experiences play an important role not only on a job perspective but also on an academic perspective. It is obvious that these experiences will help people to study a subject with an understanding on how things work in the real industry. Since they can connect theories and real world during the academic study, they will also be a skillful professional when they enter the job market. For instance, 80% of students that participates in an internship program during their studies, found to have a successful career according to a research paper published from Cambridge University.
To conclude, the work experiences are as important as studying theories and people who are full of academic knowledge without practical knowledge, are like a gun with no bullet.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, for instance, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1521.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 288.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28125 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95652127276 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.572916666667 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 462.6 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 55.6446814935 49.4020404114 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.272727273 106.682146367 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1818181818 20.7667163134 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.72727272727 7.06120827912 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.143388131287 0.244688304435 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0600798996075 0.084324248473 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10527098392 0.0667982634062 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103157908834 0.151304729494 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.110757197733 0.056905535591 195% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 13.0946893788 126% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 50.2224549098 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 12.4159519038 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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