It has been said, “Not everything that is learned is contained in books.” Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?

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It has been said, “Not everything that is learned is contained in books.” Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?

Humans learn through different ways. Some people think that the knowledge gained from books is more important that the knowledge gained from self-experience; however, others oppose this notion. Considering the merits and demerits of both the methods of learning, I am of the opinion that knowledge gained from one’s own experience is more crucial source of learning over books for the following reasons.

To begin with, although books are of paramount importance to lay the foundation of the facts and details of that subject, however, experience gives opportunity to practice essential skills and cultivate one’s intellectual abilities. To be specific, it develops critical thinking, problem solving and analysis which can’t be developed only by reading books. For example, when I was a junior in university seeking medical studies, books gave us information about the disease conditions, its precipitating symptoms, line of investigations and course of management for each condition which was simple to comprehend. However, case presentation during the clinical posting was a real challenge. The difficult part set in when patient use to have mixed symptoms. It required us to do a critical analysis of the patient’s history, signs and investigatory findings to form a differential and eventually come to a concluding diagnosis. These postings nudged us to work on our cognitive skills and master them.

Moreover, reading books gets you degree to get you the basic job in that field. While, experience is like cherry on the top, where, years of experience in addition to the educational degree gets you high paying jobs. For Instance, after completion of my Post graduation, I got appointed as a lecturer on government medical college on the basis of my degree. As the years passed, so did my experience. After 5 years of my practice, I got hired by a Private Medical Institute with a significant hike in my salary. From this, I learned how job experience matters to progress through the professional hierarchical posts.

In conclusion, I believe knowledge by experience holds more importance than books. This is because repeated experience gives you practice to master intellectual skills and because experience is crucial in getting high salary jobs.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, moreover, so, while, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 9.8082437276 10% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 43.0788530466 74% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 8.0752688172 272% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1936.0 1977.66487455 98% => OK
No of words: 357.0 407.700716846 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.42296918768 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34677393335 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09723879216 2.67179642975 116% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 212.727598566 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.577030812325 0.524837075471 110% => OK
syllable_count: 599.4 618.680645161 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.0631896229 48.9658058833 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.555555556 100.406767564 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8333333333 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.66666666667 5.45110844103 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => 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: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.275026382841 0.236089414692 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0745566160987 0.076458572812 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.098517616983 0.0737576698707 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172412904419 0.150856017488 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.126906513766 0.0645574589148 197% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 11.7677419355 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 58.1214874552 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 10.9000537634 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.18 8.01818996416 114% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 86.8835125448 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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