The learning process in school and higher education is extremely important for students’ outcome. Learning facts is one of the approach in the process where students can gain knowledge. However, I personally believe that it is more important for students to learn ideas and concepts so they can have better grasp regarding the fact and master the use of the facts.
If education institutions rely on fact learning as their main approach to students, the students may be able to integrate or differentiate complex functions, size a chemical reactor, and know many other things. However, once you modify the problems, students may find it hard because they usually only can do things that already exampled during their courses. They rely on memorizing the knowledge rather than mastering it. Thus, this will have great impact when the students are going to the society.
After students graduate, ideas and concepts are the things that separate a good graduate and an excellent graduate. For instance, in the case of civil engineering, good graduates may be able to build a bridge that connects certain points. However, they only capable of building existing design bridge with slight modification and additional engineering calculation. On the other hand, excellent graduates, with full understanding of concepts, are able to create new bridge designs that requires critical and creativity thinking to satisfy all the unique requirements. This is a truly essential skill in an increasingly complex world where many engineering problems have its own challenges.
While facts are important, skills and concepts are the key to understand and use the fact itself. Therefore, these two things are the most important thing to learn for students during their formal education period. Concepts and ideas are the key to develop critical and creativity traits, which is important to develop reasoning and solution for real-life problems. Learning facts may be able give high grade for students during school but ideas are the backbone of life learning.
- The graph and table below give information about water use worldwide and water consumption in two different countries. 73
- When schools do not have enough funding or teachers, some people think physical education classes should be cut, while others believe that courses in art and music should be eliminated first. Which do you think is preferable, and why? 66
- The table below gives information about changes in modes of travel in England between 1985 and 2000. 67
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Always telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship between people. 60
- Toward the end of his life, the Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798) wrote a long memoir recounting his life and adventures. The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure, but since he met many famous people, including kings and writers, his memoir has b 76
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, regarding, so, therefore, thus, while, for instance, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 43.0788530466 51% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 52.1666666667 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1731.0 1977.66487455 88% => OK
No of words: 324.0 407.700716846 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34259259259 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77930513565 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 212.727598566 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.549382716049 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 522.9 618.680645161 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.4285152306 48.9658058833 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.1875 100.406767564 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.25 20.6045352989 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8125 5.45110844103 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.364982085387 0.236089414692 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.114423723833 0.076458572812 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102444372825 0.0737576698707 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.226527201987 0.150856017488 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.138532524604 0.0645574589148 215% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 11.7677419355 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 10.9000537634 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.01818996416 107% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 86.8835125448 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.002688172 115% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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