There are a lot opinions on whether it is more important for students to know facts or learn concepts. If I were asked, I would definitely agree that it more important to learn and understand the underlying concepts than knowing facts. I feel this way for two main reasons which I will explore in the subsequent paragraphs.
To begin with, there will be a ton of facts in any given subject area and it is practically impossible to know and remember enough of them which would give a sense of satisfaction and understanding. For this reason, if we just concentrate on learning and remembering facts in a subject and hope to gain understanding of the subject on a whole, we will simply get frustrated as all such attempts will be futile. My personal experience is a compelling example of this. During my school days, I had to study history. Without thinking any further and without getting any teacher guidance, I started out to study this with the impression that just knowing the plain facts like Alexander the Great tried to conquer the whole world, Romans prefer land over and remembering certain important dates, etc, would be suffice to score better. However, to my surprise, this way never worked. Neither I completed the syllabus nor I scored good marks. Consequently, these unsuccessful attempts made me feel dejected and demotivated. In the end, after consulting my teacher, I came to know that a better way to study would be understanding the reasons and motivations behind each character’s action rather than the action itself.
Secondly, understanding underlying concepts of a topic will give student the ability to extend his/her knowledge to new areas. Drawing from my own experience, about ten years ago, I had to study Physics as a part of High School. In particular, we were being taught Static Electricity, it is very interesting topic for me and fortunately, this time, I have paid attention to the underlying theory of the subject and learnt it. As a result, I was able to extend this to new areas and I have even designed my own rules for solving new problems in the textbook which the lectures haven’t taught us. For example, I noticed that the dynamics of Gravitational force is exactly similar to that of Electrostatic force and I was able to solve the problems related to Gravity as well. If I hadn’t learnt the foundational and basis theory of Electrostatics but rather simply tried to remember the formulae, I wouldn’t have found this beautiful relation between the seemingly different topics. It is certainly clear to see why we need to concentrate on understanding the theory rather than mugging up facts.
In conclusion, in the light of aforementioned reasons, I feel we should pay more attention to foundational theory of a subject rather than the superficial and bland facts because it would give us the capacity to extend our knowledge, find new connections between topics and also because it is just practically impossible to know all facts pertaining to any topic in a subject.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...o know that a better way to study would be understanding the reasons and motivations behind each...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, however, if, second, secondly, so, well, for example, i feel, in conclusion, in fact, in particular, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 60.0 43.0788530466 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 52.1666666667 132% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2527.0 1977.66487455 128% => OK
No of words: 516.0 407.700716846 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89728682171 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76609204519 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92022497925 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 258.0 212.727598566 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 783.9 618.680645161 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 19.0 9.59856630824 198% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 86.4722354285 48.9658058833 177% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.35 100.406767564 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8 20.6045352989 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.6 5.45110844103 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.231274367704 0.236089414692 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0716115675469 0.076458572812 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0958421997528 0.0737576698707 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17619209602 0.150856017488 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.15741110591 0.0645574589148 244% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 11.7677419355 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 58.1214874552 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 10.9000537634 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 86.8835125448 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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