Question:
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.
Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. Typically an effective response will contain a minimum of 300 words.
Directions:
When talking about learning, the first question that needs to be answered is- " Why am I learning this?". Most often, our ultimate goal of learning something is to apply the learned knowledge in real-life practical settings. With that in mind, I strongly agree with the given statement. I firmly believe that it is more important for students to grasp the ideas and concepts behind a topic than to memorize mere facts. There are tons of reasons why I feel this way, but the most pivotal ones are explored in the subsequent paragraphs.
First and foremost, in this era of the internet, it is a piece of cake to get hold of most of the pertinent facts and figures regarding a certain topic. A student does not necessarily need to memorize or learn these facts by heart. He can simply refer to his textbooks or other internet-based resources when required. However, concepts and ideas are fundamental to the understanding of a certain topic or subject. These can not be easily derived or deduced by glancing over a textbook or other resources. Students need to fully comprehend these concepts before they can successfully utilize their knowledge in a practical setting. Drawing from my own experience, once, I worked on a project that required us to design a robotic arm. I remember that I needed to know the specific density of oil for making certain calculations regarding the design. I simply googled it and found the exact specific density of oil, which I never really memorized or learned by heart. This clearly illustrates that it is not so crucial to learn all the facts and figures regarding a topic as learning the ideas and concepts are.
Additionally, concepts and ideas are vitally important for designing or applying the learned knowledge and are equally important for the advancement of that knowledge. Research on a particular topic can only be conducted once the rudimentary concepts and ideas behind that topic are fully understood. For example, without having an understanding of how gravity truly works, it is not possible to envisage space travel. Although the exact value of the acceleration due to gravity is important, It definitely pales in comparison to the importance of fully comprehending the cause and effects of gravity.
In light of the above, we can conclude that understanding ideas and concepts is more critical for truly grasping a topic than just memorizing mere facts.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 851, Rule ID: PRP_RB_NO_VB[1]
Message: Are you missing a verb?
...in calculations regarding the design. I simply googled it and found the exact specific density...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, really, regarding, so, for example, i feel, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 43.0788530466 91% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 52.1666666667 105% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2019.0 1977.66487455 102% => OK
No of words: 403.0 407.700716846 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00992555831 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48049772903 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88137735496 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 212.727598566 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.516129032258 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 640.8 618.680645161 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.5389573276 48.9658058833 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.95 100.406767564 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.15 20.6045352989 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.1 5.45110844103 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.262668200498 0.236089414692 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0758980158798 0.076458572812 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0624786607944 0.0737576698707 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167240982961 0.150856017488 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0361023147313 0.0645574589148 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 11.7677419355 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 10.9000537634 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 86.8835125448 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => 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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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.