In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge
People regard professionals, especially professors to be highly knowledgeable in their respective fields. While this may be true, people often overlook the importance of imagination in some of these fields and attribute their success solely to their knowledge. I believe there should be an equal emphasis on the importance of both imagination and knowledge in most professions.
Given enough time to read into a particular field, anyone can gain a substantiate amount of knowledge regarding the subject. This is why we have an abundance of people all claiming to be professionals – which is not exactly wrong given the mass of people viewing knowledge as the only essential trait of professionals. However, it takes creativity for one to surface out of all the other knowledgeable people out there. It is only creativity and imagination that can foster revolutions and make one be remembered. Surly Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Leonardo Da Vinci are all incredibly knowledgeable people, however, they were not made famous by their immense knowledge; Steve Job developed the game changing iPhone, Mark Zuckerberg created a unprecedented powerful social media platform and Da Vinci was known as a maverick of the time. These well-known examples serve to suggest that imagination is an important characteristic equally if not more important than knowledge.
The application of imagination is much wider than most people would imagine. There is application of imagination even in the most recondite and factual fields such as archaeology and history. Information in these fields rarely come as a cohesive piece, it takes one’s clever imagination to fill in the gaps and put each piece together to produce a comprehensive work. These imaginations will also provide insight on where to look for the missing elements of knowledge and bolster knowledge in the long run.
Though knowledge alone may work to a certain extent in a profession, imagination by itself rarely produces any positive result. I see knowledge as the swordsmanship of a knight, while imagination as the sword she wields. A master of swordsmanship will inevitably lose to a less skilful opponent if her opponent wields a considerably more incisive weapon. Likewise, a total amateur is unlikely to be able to use a formidable sword correctly for his lack of knowledge. This analogy shows that it takes fundamental knowledge for one to put good use of their imagination, and that both these traits are of equal importance.
In conclusion, I believe that imagination is a vital asset to any professional. However, this is based on the assumption that one has the sufficient knowledge to utilize this imagination. Thus, I think it is of best interest to develop skills in imagination and knowledge equally.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
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Line 3, column 741, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...hanging iPhone, Mark Zuckerberg created a unprecedented powerful social media pla...
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Line 6, column 208, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[4]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'of the best'.
Suggestion: of the best
...e this imagination. Thus, I think it is of best interest to develop skills in imaginati...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, likewise, look, may, regarding, so, thus, well, while, i think, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 12.9106741573 163% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2336.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 444.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26126126126 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5903493882 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17210520643 2.79657885939 113% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536036036036 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 767.7 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.4700540877 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.238095238 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1428571429 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.2380952381 5.21951772744 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296137292804 0.243740707755 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0927761665852 0.0831039109588 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0690085745895 0.0758088955206 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167427779141 0.150359130593 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0384373690947 0.0667264976115 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 100.480337079 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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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.