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.
Ideas and facts are two important elements in the formation of knowledge. Ideas are like the beams of a house, and facts are cement of it. And to build a strong and safe house, non of these elements are dispensable. Therefore, I do not agree the statement that it is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts that for them to learn facts, for the following reasons.
First of all, facts are important evidence for supporting ideas or concepts. Knowledge or finding is valuable when it can be reproduced. A lot of theories that we learned when we are students are theories that have been tested by different people and in different periods of time, so those theories can persisted til today. Therefore, when scholars are writing academic articles, the first principle for them is talking base on the evidence. Otherwise, articles without evidence support may not be convincing to others.
Moreover, facts can also help students to learn the output of an idea. When we are learning a new concept, we usually care about what effect that this concept can bring us. For example, I have a friend who works as a company's marketing specialist. And she always tells me that what her team likes to do is experimenting whether their ideas would work. After the experimental campaign are done the results, which are facts, will help them develop better ideas. However, if her team only care about ideas that they have, rather than the outcome of their ideas, it is likely that they will not be able to find the correct marketing strategy.
Finally, some people may say that idea is fundamental for learning new knowledge, and without idea, we will not have opportunities to consider facts. Nevertheless, if we only have ideas, then our ideas will always be merely theoretical. And it will be hard for people to decide if these ideas are viable or not. I remember that every time I had some ideas for developing new market, I would always talk about my ideas to my boss. Yet, his replies to my ideas would always be “do it first, and if your ideas do not work, then you can ask for my advice.”
In conclusion, despite ideas and concepts play an important role when we are learning something new, without facts, however, those ideas will always be ideas. And they will never have chance to show their practical values.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 273, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...ed by different people and in different period of time, so those theories can persisted til to...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, then, therefore, as for, as to, for example, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 15.1003584229 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 9.8082437276 163% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.0286738351 154% => OK
Pronoun: 57.0 43.0788530466 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 52.1666666667 61% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1850.0 1977.66487455 94% => OK
No of words: 394.0 407.700716846 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.69543147208 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45527027702 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54854185321 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 212.727598566 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.489847715736 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 577.8 618.680645161 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.040050827 48.9658058833 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.5 100.406767564 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.45110844103 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.287200967023 0.236089414692 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0963069384861 0.076458572812 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119439717462 0.0737576698707 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.179950014691 0.150856017488 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.10754565968 0.0645574589148 167% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 11.7677419355 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.98 10.9000537634 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.54 8.01818996416 94% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 86.8835125448 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.