Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is more important to understand ideas and concepts than to learn facts.
Knowledge acquisition has been an appealing topic in our modern society. It is commonly argued that it is more vital to understand general ideas of each subject than to concentrate in new facts. In my personal viewpoint, I disapprove of this argument.
In the first place, what I put in my priority is life need. It cannot be denied that learning facts are likely to help students acquire a range of knowledge in the subject. As a result, they tend to perform better in their future job. For example, my aunt is a successful and well-paid engineer as she knows how to fix numerous machines. This is because in her college, she was very intrigued in studying a wide range of detailed knowledge about her major, physics. These facts undoubtedly is one of the main factors for her success. More importantly, facts account for a lot of point in tests in colleges nowadays. Indeed, students are required to remember facts in their books or from other resources to duel with the tests. Therefore, the more facts they remember, the greater academic performance they acquire. With no doubt, it is extremely useful if one remembers and applies facts into their works and studies.
In the second place, personally enjoyment holds no less importance. The fact is that concentrating in learning facts, students need to remember a lot of knowledge including times, methods, processes, etc. As a consequence, they necessarily look for effective ways to remember these information. This leads them to look up or ask others for the best methods of remembering. The more they discover and apply these methods, the better remembering ability they gain. More amazingly, factual information is what people can show to others. For instance, when they talk with their friends, they might use their knowledge to prove their points. Besides, they may use their various factual knowledge to help their teams enhance the products. To sum up, knowing a tons of facts, people may be admired by others.
On the other hand, some people may insist that learners will not be able to understand subjects thoroughly if they pay more attention to details. As a result, their background understanding tends to be destroyed. However, this is not necessarily the case as students are not required to study that much about ideas to understand them. Hence, they certainly spend more time on facts. Furthermore, learning a great deal of factual knowledge, the questions what is the subject for, why we have this, etc may naturally evoke. To understand that, they need to form some possible ideas and then decide whether they are correct. They may inevitably fail in some of these efforts, and it takes them much time to self-understand the concepts of the subjects. However, once they understand, they will be the master in that themes. By and large, the opposing opinions may end in collapse.
In conclusion, practical value, personal satisfaction, and stronger background knowledge are convincing reasons for my disapproval. It is strongly recommended that educationalists as well as students worldwide should take my writing into detailed consideration to come up with appropriate decisions.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 277, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this information' or 'these informations'?
Suggestion: this information; these informations
...ily look for effective ways to remember these information. This leads them to look up or ask othe...
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Line 5, column 753, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a ton' or simply 'tons'?
Suggestion: a ton; tons
...nhance the products. To sum up, knowing a tons of facts, people may be admired by othe...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, look, may, second, so, then, therefore, well, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, no doubt, as a result, as well as, by and large, to sum up, in the first place, in the second place, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 15.1003584229 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 65.0 43.0788530466 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 52.1666666667 132% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2648.0 1977.66487455 134% => OK
No of words: 520.0 407.700716846 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09230769231 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77530192783 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86633954145 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 212.727598566 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526923076923 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 800.1 618.680645161 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 20.0 9.59856630824 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 3.08781362007 227% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 20.6003584229 160% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.1250835876 48.9658058833 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.2424242424 100.406767564 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7575757576 20.6045352989 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.21212121212 5.45110844103 151% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 11.8709677419 152% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.134032374613 0.236089414692 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.036491205327 0.076458572812 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.044056360562 0.0737576698707 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0824925392697 0.150856017488 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0474599091847 0.0645574589148 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 11.7677419355 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 58.1214874552 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 10.1575268817 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 86.8835125448 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 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.