Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
It is a well-known tradition for students to dislike dates. Therefore, it seems that maybe they don't like learning facts, which seems harder than "just" understanding an idea or concept.
Indeed, once you have understood the idea of something, theorically, it remains in your mind, whereas facts are easily forgotten. You can then re use the concept you have learned before, only because you understood how it worked, why it was important, and so on. And, something very important for the students, if they don't really remember the exact words their teacher used to explain the concept, they can made up something of their own, which may still be accurate.
On the contrary, you cannot do the same withs facts. Facts, as it is implied, are precise, occurred in special situations, and were followed by special consequences. For example, you can explain to someone what is the concept of Epicure's philosophy, even if you don't really remember all the aspects of it, eventually your explanation may still be valuable for the other person. It is more complicated with facts; indeed, you cannot imagine how Henry 8th left the Catholic Church to create the Church of England, unless you know the facts, the dates, the consequences, and so on.
As far as I am concerned, I think that facts are as important as concepts or ideas. Facts are needed to understand concepts, and concepts are needed to foresee facts' consequences, for example.
Concepts may sometimes be too abstract for students, and the vocabulary generally used to explain a "concept" is not really words that we use in everyday's life, and it may be a problem for some students. Here, facts can help the teacher (or the person explaining) making the ideas clearer for the others.
To conclude, I would say that there is a very close relationship between understanding ideas and learning facts; none is more important than the other, and when you are sutdying, you need to do both to succeed.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, may, really, so, still, then, therefore, well, whereas, for example, i think, you know, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 35.0 43.0788530466 81% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 52.1666666667 52% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1655.0 1977.66487455 84% => OK
No of words: 331.0 407.700716846 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26537283232 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89089612735 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 212.727598566 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.540785498489 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 497.7 618.680645161 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.6003584229 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: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.3228666362 48.9658058833 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.214285714 100.406767564 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6428571429 20.6045352989 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.64285714286 5.45110844103 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.53405017921 132% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 7.0 5.5376344086 126% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.351070967911 0.236089414692 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122099596538 0.076458572812 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0416216986767 0.0737576698707 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.184025055758 0.150856017488 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0149153543913 0.0645574589148 23% => 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: 13.9 11.7677419355 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 58.1214874552 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 86.8835125448 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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