In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most c

I agree that in some fields of study that imagination plays a vital role in the process of research. In arts and music, imagination is more important than knowledge for composing or creating the masterpieces. However, in the field of natural science, imagination and knowledge are equally important for carrying on promising research. When it comes to social science, people's knowledge and experience are the key determinants of a successful researcher.

Imagination is essential to the arts. The knowledge people learned from school are only the theory or some techniques that already existed for hundreds of years. When it comes to creating works, they shouldn't only based on the previous knowledge. Only relies on the old and conventional theories, one can never make impressive progression in this field. In contrast, imagination can bring about creativity that holds the key to making masterpieces, especially the advance guard ones, including architectures, paintings, music, poems and so on. By injecting their imagination into the products, musicians can create the work reflecting their unique feelings, perspective and understanding of what a good music should be. The famous architectures are usually something people never see or never thought about before, like the Eiffel tower in Paris, the Bird’s Nest of 2008 Beijing Olympic games and so on. These architectures are brought about by the introduction of newly developed style and concepts that are both functional and amazing. Thus, imagination should be value more when it comes to create art, music and architecture.

Imagination and knowledge are equally the same important for natural science. Firstly, scientists need to have a sense of imagination when it comes to interpreting some 'weird' results. By weird, I mean the data or results that are out of people's knowledge and understanding. When people tried to determine the structure of benzene, the reaction data, the molecular weight and the chemical formula all seemed not fit when using the chained structure. No one had ever known there was also cyclic compound structure existed in the world until one brilliant chemist who came up with the cyclic structure that could explain all the phenomenon. Therefore, the imagination to think out of the box is vitally important for natural science. Additionally, basic knowledge can keep people on the reasonable and logical track while thinking out of the box. With knowledge, the things people imagine can become truth and science, instead of delusion.

However, knowledge would be dominating in the research of social science. For example, any decision made by a government should not based solely on imagination, otherwise, it can be impractical and detrimental. Only after considering the current situation of the society and also take the experience and lessons from the other governments and countries can the decision made by the authority be pragmatic and beneficial for the citizens. Also, for people who study law, more work should be put on studying the protocols already existed and applied them, instead of imagining things themselves. Thus, respecting the fact and the experience forms an important in social science.

In conclusion, imagination is more beneficial than knowledge in art, while knowledge is important in social science and natural science.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, so, therefore, thus, while, for example, i mean, in conclusion, in contrast

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 14.8657303371 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 29.0 12.9106741573 225% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2836.0 2235.4752809 127% => OK
No of words: 524.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.41221374046 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7844588288 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96888669566 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 262.0 215.323595506 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 880.2 704.065955056 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.4799356151 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.037037037 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4074074074 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.07407407407 5.21951772744 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.105985311914 0.243740707755 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0360975509006 0.0831039109588 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0321421751067 0.0758088955206 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.073300430918 0.150359130593 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0166077957513 0.0667264976115 25% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 100.480337079 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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