Do you Agree or Disagree with : It is important for students to learn ideas and concepts rather than learn facts.
It is critically important that students always keep on learning new things. Personally I believe students should focus more on learning ideas and concepts. I feel this way for two reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
To begin with, ideas and concepts stick around with us longer. Human brain has a tendency to forget or discard thoughts if it does not fully understand what they mean. In contrast, if we support the thoughts with a well-formed explanation of why it is so, our brain can comprehend the thing faster and make it easier to remember. As a result, students can actually be able to use what they learnt even in sometime in the future. My personal experience is a compelling illustration for this. When I was in high school almost seven years ago, for an important Chemistry exam, I simply memorized the entire Periodic table without knowing the significance of the elements in it or why an element was placed at a particular spot. I had memorized only the facts, so when the Chemistry question paper had a tricky question on the position of the elements, I could not solve it. Had I focused more on what goes behind the facts and get a deeper understanding of the Periodic table, I would not be in this situation.
Furthermore, only learning will not do any good if a student has no idea about its application. To apply the acquired knowledge in our daily life is the ultimate goal of learning new things. For instance, a student might know that apple is a fruit. But what good it is if he cannot recognise the apple in a supermarket. The other day, my nephew was very excited to tell me what he learnt in History class that day. The lecturer went over how the barter system was slowly evolved and replaced with the actual money we use today. Before this lecture, he knew that money is used for trading, but how and why this process came into existence shed a new light on its importance. And consequently, he uses this knowledge now to place bets with me on which Sports Team will win the match but involving chocolates instead of money.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that learning the main ideas and the concepts behind them is more essential for students. This is because learning the concepts behind the idea embeds it for an extended period in the mind and also students get to apply it whenever the situation demands.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 397, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to even'
Suggestion: to even
...ctually be able to use what they learnt even in sometime in the future. My personal ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, consequently, furthermore, if, so, well, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, in contrast, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 43.0788530466 114% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 52.1666666667 90% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.0752688172 173% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1944.0 1977.66487455 98% => OK
No of words: 420.0 407.700716846 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.62857142857 4.8611393121 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61950645331 2.67179642975 98% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 212.727598566 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.542857142857 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 603.0 618.680645161 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.9136664297 48.9658058833 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.5714285714 100.406767564 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.57142857143 5.45110844103 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.266405905097 0.236089414692 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0812853719686 0.076458572812 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0801106334413 0.0737576698707 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187940298973 0.150856017488 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0685463702822 0.0645574589148 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 11.7677419355 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 58.1214874552 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.57 10.9000537634 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 86.8835125448 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => 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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 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.