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? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Questions surrounding what is at the bottom of knowledge have been ongoing for hundreds of years. Many philosophers and scientists have been trying to understand if knowledge acquired from books is more effective than the empirical one. While some people believe that experience is more important than theory, others underline that books are better than practice. This essay will discuss why this problem should not be looked as a dichotomy, since both practice and theory are equally essential.
With regard to theory, studying on books broaden people’s mind. If one study from books, he/she can understand more about the real world and become more aware of political and social problems. For instance, history books are not only related to past events, but they offer the key to reading the present and the future. If I had never gained knowledge from this source, you would not have known why Italy is not divided into two reigns anymore, how the US succeeded in the Secession War and why South and North Korea have been divided nowadays. Learning from books makes people more cultured and broad-minded, and thus prepare them for the “real” world.
With regard to practice, learning from experience is also essential in order to prepare people for the “real” world. If you study only from books, you can broaden your horizons, but you cannot completely understand the world around you. My own experience is a compelling experience of this. I am a mechanical engineering student: we study a lot of theory from books, but our teachers are really focused on underlining that this is not enough to become a good engineer and get a well-paid job. If I just learned how an injection molding machine works, without observing it in practice, I could not be able to design it. Only practice and experience help you in this. Engineers do not learn how to design on books and this is a clear example of knowledge gained from experience. Therefore, empirical learning completes people’s mindsets and expand their eyesight as well as studying from books.
This essay discussed why both practice and theory are important in order to acquire deep knowledge of the outside world. In my opinion, everyone has to study from books, but also go beyond and learn from experience.
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- It is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject. 81
- People learn better from those at their own level—such as teachers or supervisors—then from those at a higher level, such as teachers or supervisors 76
- Independence from parents 76
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Classmates are a more important influence than parents on a child’s success in school. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 76
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, really, so, therefore, thus, well, while, as to, for instance, as well as, in my opinion, with regard to
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 : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 11.0286738351 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 43.0788530466 79% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 52.1666666667 94% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1923.0 1977.66487455 97% => OK
No of words: 380.0 407.700716846 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06052631579 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41515443553 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73706856351 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 212.727598566 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.521052631579 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 586.8 618.680645161 95% => 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: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.0344764174 48.9658058833 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.210526316 100.406767564 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.57894736842 5.45110844103 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => 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: 0.34466277653 0.236089414692 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109600237705 0.076458572812 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0700437633886 0.0737576698707 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.219319389215 0.150856017488 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0398327887542 0.0645574589148 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 11.7677419355 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 86.8835125448 92% => 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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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