Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
In this modern world, knowledge is power. It is important to acquire knowledge efficiently to succeed in society. There is a trend in education that encourages students to learn from facts, but I do not believe this works. I agree that it is more important to understand the ideas and concept.
First, facts can only be analyzed and correctly interpreted through a true understanding of concepts. What you see might not be true. Think of every time people watching a magic show. The beginnings are always logical, but when the magic comes, people will be shocked by so-called facts: what they have seen and the things they believed to be true. But if they learned the tricks behind the scene, they could know what really happened. Similarly, the essence of knowledge does not come easily from facts but come from systematically rules and concepts. Because facts can often be deceptive, hindering the truth from people, I would not recommend students to focus their learning from facts.
Second, concepts and ideas come from an accumulation of human's knowledge. For example, when ancient Greeks observed that fact that some objects like sun and moon move autonomously while some objects will eventually become static again, they formed a theory that these two types of objects are not subjected to the same physical rules. However, after a thousand years, Issac Newton proposed three totally different laws of motion, and then hundreds of years later, Albert Einstein formed another theory to refine Newton's laws of motion. Human spent a very long time to learn from facts to approach the truth of the universe. If students learn from understanding ideas and concepts, they are actually saving thousands of years. They won't reinvent the wheels. They are capable of gaining knowledge in an efficient way by using concepts and ideas of people from the past.
Admittedly, with higher accuracy and efficiency, it is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than to learn facts.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 796, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in an efficient way" with adverb for "efficient"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
.... They are capable of gaining knowledge in an efficient way by using concepts and ideas of people f...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, however, if, really, second, similarly, so, then, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 43.0788530466 56% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 52.1666666667 86% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1679.0 1977.66487455 85% => OK
No of words: 329.0 407.700716846 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10334346505 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25891501996 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56538915828 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 212.727598566 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.568389057751 0.524837075471 108% => OK
syllable_count: 499.5 618.680645161 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 56.7059284984 48.9658058833 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.3684210526 100.406767564 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3157894737 20.6045352989 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.73684210526 5.45110844103 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211873969547 0.236089414692 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0780305120491 0.076458572812 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.114154050103 0.0737576698707 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.201184222584 0.150856017488 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.144033103639 0.0645574589148 223% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 11.7677419355 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 58.1214874552 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.0 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.01818996416 107% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 86.8835125448 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 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: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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.