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 and 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 the more important is 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 the education process. In the education process, students should have specific skills that are useful tools for learning facts. Students must " learn to learn", learning ideas and concepts behind facts and knowledge. Without learning these ideas and concepts, they will not be able to learn facts 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 built strong backgrounds in my major study; So, ideas and concepts are foundations for learning facts.
Second, today people need ideas and concepts to obtain 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 studied 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.
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: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 43.0788530466 70% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 52.1666666667 90% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1880.0 1977.66487455 95% => OK
No of words: 378.0 407.700716846 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97354497354 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40933352052 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77742502169 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 212.727598566 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.502645502646 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 560.7 618.680645161 91% => 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: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => 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: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.1795818474 48.9658058833 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.588235294 100.406767564 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2352941176 20.6045352989 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.23529411765 5.45110844103 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => 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: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.318115100034 0.236089414692 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107179068909 0.076458572812 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0599454001924 0.0737576698707 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187771633819 0.150856017488 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0390757805959 0.0645574589148 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 11.7677419355 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 58.1214874552 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 10.9000537634 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 86.8835125448 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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: 63.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.0 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.