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.
We live in an increasingly complex world, an information age. In this era where knowledge is key to survival, learning facts is very important. It is tempting to say that facts are the currency of the modern world and that students must learn as many facts as possible. I disagree and feel it's more important to learn ideas and concepts, so they will be able to truly understand facts. I feel this way for two reasons, which I will explore in the following paragraphs.
First, ideas and concepts are especially important in formal education. In the education process, students should have specific skills which are useful tools for learning facts. The skills themselves must be learned. Students must " learn to learn", learning ideas and concepts behind education. Without first learning these ideas and concepts, they will not be able to learn facts very effectively. My personal experience is a compelling example of this, in the first year at the university I took the " Chemical Engineering introduction" course which taught me how to understand the concepts of chemical engineering and how to think like real engineering and provided me with the most important tools and skills that any chemical engineer needs in his work. Thanks to this course in the first year, I had built strong backgrounds in my major study. So, ideas and concepts are foundational to the learning facts.
Second, today people need ideas and concepts to get jobs and be part of a community. therefore, the purpose of school is to prepare students for fully participating in society by providing them with proper concepts, skills, and ideas. For instance, if someone studies to become an airplane pilot, it is not enough to learn where all the controls are in an airplane and what they do. Airline pilots should have an idea of what it feels like to be in a plane before they can be trusted to fly a real airplane. Similarly, for doctors concepts such as safety, responsibility and bedside manner are more important than knowing every single medical fact. All in all, learning ideas and concepts plays a pivotal role in getting the best opportunities.
In conclusion, for life learning, students must be taught the skills and concepts they need to learn, think and act on their own.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 86, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Therefore
...to get jobs and be part of a community. therefore, the purpose of school is to prepare st...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, second, similarly, so, therefore, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, such as
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 : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 43.0788530466 72% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 52.1666666667 92% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1915.0 1977.66487455 97% => OK
No of words: 384.0 407.700716846 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98697916667 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4267276788 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78773335315 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 212.727598566 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.5078125 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 570.6 618.680645161 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.7281522637 48.9658058833 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.75 100.406767564 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2 20.6045352989 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.45 5.45110844103 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88709677419 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.300188309783 0.236089414692 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0946410548475 0.076458572812 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0653385426791 0.0737576698707 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17953733237 0.150856017488 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0322870490019 0.0645574589148 50% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 11.7677419355 99% => OK
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: 11.66 10.9000537634 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.01818996416 96% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 86.8835125448 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
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.