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

In the world today, we constantly hear that one of the most imporant factor for success is the power of imaginaion. Many successful people have given talks about how creative thinking can be vital to one's growth in almost all the fields, without ever mentioning how knowledge can be helpful to one's professional growth.The prompt above agrees with such a position and argue that imagination is more important than knowledge in most fields. In my opinion, I strongly disagree with this stance and argue that the importance of knowledge is superior than that of imagination in most professions and fields for three reasons.

To begin, imagination can only be built on top of great foundation knowledges. To contribute something new to this world through ingenuity, history has shown us that it is only possible when one possess erudite knowledge in a field. For instance, one might consider Albert Einstein to be the epitome of powerful imagination, as he has invented numerous amount of inventions that benefit the entire society even until today. However, one cannot ignore the fact that he was only able to reach his achievement through his deep insights of the scientifical knowledge. Even if he possesses the most powerful imagination, he couldn't have overcome the scientific obstacles for his breakthrough in science if he doesn't possess superior knowledge. The above example illustrates that despite imagination is a desirable quality, its significance is no match to the importance of knowledge when it comes to inventing something new.

Furthermore, even if we assume that imagination and knowledge are matched in their importance for elites such as Albert Einstein, knowledge still carry more weight than imagination in most professions, as the former being a required quality to possess and the latter being a desirable but optional trait. Most workers, especially when they are in lower positions in a company, have job responbilities that do not require so much imagination, as their work routine consists of simple task that do not always require much critical thinking. Take kitcken crews as example. Their daily responsiblities may require them to take care of simply tasks, such as cleaning and meal preparing. They may also occansionally take care of more complex tasks, but mostly informed by their supervisor. Solely possessing ingenuity doesn't help them in their work environment because it is a trait that is not utilized often. On the other hand, a kitchen crew still need to possess enough knowledge when carrying out the task, as he needs to to how to clean more efficiently and what items are needed for each recipe. This example shows that generally, knowledge is more important than imagination because it is required in more professions for almost all employees, whereas imagination is not required.

Of course, some argues that imagination is the most important factor for success, as the ability to think "outside of the box" is being cherished by many successful people today. While that may be true, don't you need to have enough understanding for a topic to think differently? If a cook wants to make the most creative dessert, doesn't he need to know enough of basic culinary knowledge to start selecting the corrent type of flour and knowing the best temperature to be set for the oven? The power of imagination can only blossom on top of the soil of knowledge. Without soil, there will be no flowers.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, may, so, still, whereas, while, for instance, of course, such as, in my opinion, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2888.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 565.0 442.535393258 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11150442478 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87542086881 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88983462802 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 279.0 215.323595506 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493805309735 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 909.9 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.3098400259 60.3974514979 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.272727273 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6818181818 23.4991977007 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.13636363636 5.21951772744 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 7.80617977528 128% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
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: 0.326668338932 0.243740707755 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0935847399484 0.0831039109588 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115732637152 0.0758088955206 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206687115372 0.150359130593 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101204600687 0.0667264976115 152% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 11.8971910112 151% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 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: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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