It has been said, "Not everything that is learned is contained in books." Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?
In recent times, there has been a widespread debate on the way that people should gain their knowledge. While some people think that getting knowledge from books is more beneficial for most people, I hold the opposite view. As far as I am concerned, I think that the most important source of information is the real experiences.
To begin with, most books have a biased point of view for the writer. The writer’s opinion influences all the information in that book. For example, I remember one time when I read a book about the shape of the earth. It said in that book that the earth is in a circle shape. However, when I read another book about the shape of the earth, it said that no one can know the exact shape of the earth. Therefore, every writer in most books tends to represent the idea that he/she believes. On the other hand, when people experience real events, they can get the truth and the right information. For instance, when I worked in the hospital, I did not know about the procedure for administrating chemotherapy because it was not explained clearly in the book. However, when I saw the procedure in front of me, I knew the exact chemotherapy process without any doubt of having a biased view like in some books.
Adding to the previous point, most books do not have updated information as most of their knowledge is obsolete. Therefore, people can gain some old knowledge that is not applicable in our daily life. In contrast, when people try to experience a situation, they can get the newest version of the event. For example, in my hometown, Saudi Arabia, many books that are in schools have very outdated knowledge. Thus, when students get graduated and start working in the field, they notice that the work environment is totally different from what they have studied in books. Indeed, most Saudi’s students find out that the experience is the modern source of information not books.
In conclusion, I urge people to get most of their knowledge by experiences. They should not rely on books as a truthful source of information.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, so, therefore, thus, while, for example, for instance, i think, in conclusion, in contrast, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 13.8261648746 14% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.0286738351 172% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 43.0788530466 91% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 52.1666666667 88% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1707.0 1977.66487455 86% => OK
No of words: 361.0 407.700716846 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.72853185596 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35889894354 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6847464796 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 212.727598566 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.470914127424 0.524837075471 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 522.9 618.680645161 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.3324052883 48.9658058833 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 85.35 100.406767564 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.05 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.85 5.45110844103 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.138537859319 0.236089414692 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0459522290751 0.076458572812 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0359496435995 0.0737576698707 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100410916383 0.150856017488 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0472336042172 0.0645574589148 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 11.7677419355 84% => 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: 9.86 10.9000537634 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.24 8.01818996416 90% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 86.8835125448 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
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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