In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge.

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In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge.

There are several reasons why knowledge is more important than imagination in most professions and academic fields. Having knowledge is fundamental in the daily operations of a business or university. In addition, having knowledge is important in order to pass down this information to others who can create a more productive environment. Although creativity is important in research and development, having a solid foundation of knowledge is of the utmost importance in most professions and academic fields.

First, businesses operate on a day to day basis by depending on a plethora of departments functioning in an efficient and cohesive manner. In order for the company to remain profitable, individuals must complete the job that they were hired to do. Many of these roles require strong technical expertise, such as developers, accountants, lawyers, and analysts. It would be expected that these employees would have a wealth of knowledge in programming, GAAP principles, laws, and business functions. Similarly, in academia, students rely on their professor’s knowledge of the subject matter in order to learn. It is imperative that professors and corporate workers have strong knowledge in their respective fields. Although creativity is an added bonus in these roles, without knowledge, the business or institution would not be able to operate at all.

Secondly, having knowledge is also important in order to pass down foundational information to others. Since most employees do not stay in the same role for their entire lives, one important aspect of their job is to train another employee to take their place. Knowledge can easily be passed down through seminars, learning sessions, and documentation. Imagination, however, is much more difficult to teach; therefore, a company would not expect a worker to be able to pass this skill down. For an academic role where the primary purpose is to educate others, relaying knowledge to others is of the utmost importance. It would be unfathomable to have a professor only be imaginative and possess no concrete knowledge of their subject matter.

Proponents of the notion that imagination is more important than knowledge cite the impact of research and development of organizations and academia. Without innovation, a company or university is likely to fall behind its competitors and possibly fade away. In fact, in the Bay Area, many tech companies must develop creative solutions to new problems, or run the risk of being taken over by newer companies. One can easily think of Blockbuster being taken over by Netflix or taxis being replaced by Uber. However, many companies retain a specialized research and development team, comprising of only a few members of the organization. This team’s goal is solely to be innovative, while the majority of the company is performing day to day tasks to keep the lights on. The primary focus of the organization is still on its existing knowledge, because without any knowledge, the company would be in a state of disarray almost immediately, whereas a lack of imagination can be accounted for through other means such as buying out competitors.

In conclusion, knowledge is more important in innovation in most professional and academic fields. The importance of performing fundamental daily tasks and to pass this knowledge onto others takes precedence over innovation through research and development in terms of viability for the organization. Given the aforementioned reasons, knowledge is more important than imagination in most professional and academic fields.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 745, Rule ID: ADDED_BONUS[1]
Message: This phrase might be redundant. Use simply 'bonus'.
Suggestion: bonus
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Message: Did you mean 'comprising' or 'consisting of'?
Suggestion: comprising; consisting of
...cialized research and development team, comprising of only a few members of the organization....
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, second, secondly, similarly, so, still, therefore, whereas, while, in addition, in conclusion, in fact, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.5258426966 169% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 96.0 58.6224719101 164% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 12.9106741573 194% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3031.0 2235.4752809 136% => OK
No of words: 561.0 442.535393258 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40285204991 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86676880123 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16097820278 2.79657885939 113% => OK
Unique words: 262.0 215.323595506 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.467023172906 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 973.8 704.065955056 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.2373103748 60.3974514979 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.259259259 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7777777778 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.07407407407 5.21951772744 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 21.0 10.2758426966 204% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.295087111293 0.243740707755 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0989531480395 0.0831039109588 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.166928636312 0.0758088955206 220% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.208089141612 0.150359130593 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.164096061767 0.0667264976115 246% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.1392134831 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.04 12.1639044944 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 149.0 100.480337079 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 Out of 6
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