Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
For success in school and work, the ability to adapt or adjust to a changing condition or circumstance is more important than having excellent knowledge of a job or in a field of study.
Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
A variety of factors are at play when it comes to success: knowledge, professional skills, characters, among others. In this regard, parents and teachers who consider themselves to be much wiser and more experienced would always advise the younger generations to spare no efforts to acquire as much knowledge as possible. Yet, the way I see it, the ability to adapt oneself to changes, either academically or professionally, is of greater significance than being equipped with a profound knowledge. I feel this way based on the following reasons.
First, let’s take a look at the case of students. Suppose that a teenager has just graduated from senior high school and is about to attend college in a different city. There will just be too many changes and challenges that she has to learn to cope with: how to take good care of herself without depending on her beloved parents, how to stay confident and strive to overachieve when most of her classmates can easily outperform her in class, how to smoothly walk out of her comfort zone and strike up friendships with her roommates whose living habits and ways of thinking are in stark contrast to hers. If she could handle all such changes in a calm and smooth way, she would find it not difficult to maintain a good health in a strange city, keep an outstanding academic record throughout her college years, and become popular among her peers. Eventually, she might have a big shot at graduating as the class valedictorian.
The same goes for white-collar workers. When an employee in his early twenties starts his very first day at a company, he has to learn to adjust himself to the working environment distinct from the campus and thus alien to him; when a young employee is transferred to another department at his company, he has to learn to familiarize himself with all his new assignments and everyone else in the new office area, be they his superiors or inferiors; when a young adult who has been working as an English teacher decides to quit and tries to work in the finance industry, he has to face the music and then start from scratch, exerting himself to learn everything required for his new field. Hardly would anyone fail to see that without the ability of adapting himself to all such changes in the workplace, a young employee would be struggling to manage just fine, not to mention climbing up the corporate ladder.
I am not suggesting that having a vast knowledge, either at school or at work, is of no use to one’s success at all. More often than not, it is those students who possess the most knowledge that could earn the highest scores in the examinations. It is those employees who have a deep understanding and a keen perception in their fields that could surpass their peers and become respected and well-paid professionals. Be that as it may, being knowledgeable does not necessarily provide one with a ticket to success. A knowledgeable student who is easily overwhelmed by changes and reluctant to walk out of his comfort zone would not make continuous progress academically. Likewise, a knowledgeable young adult who could not roll with the punches would find it rather challenging to just keep up along his professional road.
In a nutshell, to those young individuals who are striving to achieve academic or professional success, I would suggest that more emphasis should be put on developing the ability to adjust oneself than on gaining knowledge.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'profound knowledge'.
Suggestion: profound knowledge
...r significance than being equipped with a profound knowledge. I feel this way based on the following...
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Line 3, column 933, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... graduating as the class valedictorian. The same goes for white-collar workers. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, likewise, look, may, so, then, thus, well, as to, i feel
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 9.8082437276 163% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 13.8261648746 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.0286738351 190% => OK
Pronoun: 59.0 43.0788530466 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 92.0 52.1666666667 176% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2869.0 1977.66487455 145% => OK
No of words: 589.0 407.700716846 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.87096774194 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.92639038232 4.48103885553 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85163101727 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 305.0 212.727598566 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517826825127 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 868.5 618.680645161 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 7.0 3.08781362007 227% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 31.0 20.1344086022 154% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 141.070815796 48.9658058833 288% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 151.0 100.406767564 150% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.0 20.6045352989 150% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.52631578947 5.45110844103 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => 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: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.156296877962 0.236089414692 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.049784510067 0.076458572812 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0274423774439 0.0737576698707 37% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0926002158251 0.150856017488 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0327080544259 0.0645574589148 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 11.7677419355 144% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.47 58.1214874552 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 10.1575268817 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.56 10.9000537634 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.01818996416 110% => OK
difficult_words: 137.0 86.8835125448 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.002688172 115% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 10.0537634409 143% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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