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.

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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.

It is not uncommon to find people get confused between facts and concepts. These two words have totally different meanings. I strongly agree with the statement that for the students, learning ideas or concepts are more important than simply learning facts. That's because concept is the root of knowledge, it helps students to understand a topic better and also because it helps to retain the basic knowledge.

To begin with, concept or idea is the root of any knowledge. Knowing a concept, students can easily understand any topic by depth. As for a fact, it is something that has to be mugged up and memorized. Students can easily forget a topic just by learning the facts but learning concepts or ideas can make students retain a topic. For example, learning the fact is like on which date Vasco da Gamma discovered India, so we have to learn the date by heart and there is a chance that we can easily forget it. But by learning the concept for instance, why and how did Vasco da Gamma discover India, this can make learning more interesting and they can grasp knowledge in much better ways. This example illustrates the importance of learning concepts over the facts.

Secondly, concepts can make students retain knowledge better. As with fact, there is a chance that we can forget it easily as it has to be remembered. But with concept, students can figure out an answer just by revising their main ideas. Learning with a concept can retain for much longer time as compared to just learning facts. For example, when we do mathematics, we try to do it by concept or methods rather than studying the facts. Hence, we could solve any question with the help of the main idea. And also, concepts can be especially helpful during examination when a student tends to forget facts due to nervousness.

In conclusion, I agree that it is much helpful to acquire the concept or basic idea of knowledge than just simply mugging up the facts because the concepts can make student understand better, and because it can be retained for longer duration.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, second, secondly, so, as for, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 43.0788530466 65% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 52.1666666667 75% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1698.0 1977.66487455 86% => OK
No of words: 356.0 407.700716846 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76966292135 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52101851225 2.67179642975 94% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 212.727598566 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.435393258427 0.524837075471 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 514.8 618.680645161 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.625132137 48.9658058833 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.3684210526 100.406767564 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7368421053 20.6045352989 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.45110844103 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.311842382186 0.236089414692 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120743824212 0.076458572812 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0995667419515 0.0737576698707 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.224116232944 0.150856017488 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0328233464849 0.0645574589148 51% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 11.7677419355 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 58.1214874552 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 10.1575268817 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.15 8.01818996416 89% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 86.8835125448 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
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: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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