It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.
Although it is generally agreed that universities are intended to provide wide range of knowledge to students, the question remains whether the emphasis should be placed upon concepts and theories or real facts. Personally, I am prone to believe that theoretical knowledge is more vital. I hold this opinion for several reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
To begin with, due to their /its/ nature facts are commonly regarded as less valuable things to know as compared to theories. This is because facts are always connected with real situations that may change. In contrast, ideas and concepts are long-lasting since they are diverted from real situations. For instance, a fact according to which students prefer to live in dormitories nowadays may change over time, while ideas and concepts about students' behavioral patterns may stay unchanged.
Additionally, facts are less informative than concepts. Facts are always concrete whereas theories contain information that is common to many factual situations. For example, a fact that students drink alcohol does not explain the causes of such a behavior. Meanwhile, relevant concepts and generalizations may explain the reasons of such a behavior.
Finally, theories are the result of analysis. As compared to facts, they are the results of the intellectual activity of scholars. Consequently, they take into account all the variety of possible facts and bring to right conclusions. For instance, an analysis may consider the similar facts as well as the deviating facts. This in turn guarantees the accuracy of the information contained therein.
To sum up briefly, facts and theories are interrelated. However, students should pay more attention to comprehend ideas and theories. Its explanation is threefold: theories commonly are unchangeable, their explanatory potential is higher, and they lead to more accurate conclusions.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
briefly, consequently, finally, however, may, so, well, whereas, while, for example, for instance, in contrast, as well as, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 43.0788530466 46% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 52.1666666667 69% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1613.0 1977.66487455 82% => OK
No of words: 293.0 407.700716846 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.50511945392 4.8611393121 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.48103885553 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98180248878 2.67179642975 112% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 212.727598566 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.580204778157 0.524837075471 111% => OK
syllable_count: 491.4 618.680645161 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.821544104 48.9658058833 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.8947368421 100.406767564 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.4210526316 20.6045352989 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.78947368421 5.45110844103 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 11.8709677419 42% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.88709677419 266% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214505502705 0.236089414692 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0586548185306 0.076458572812 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0593413469438 0.0737576698707 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1133306238 0.150856017488 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0187933868172 0.0645574589148 29% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 11.7677419355 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.79 58.1214874552 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.38 10.9000537634 132% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.12 8.01818996416 114% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 86.8835125448 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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.