It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.
The debate on whether students should focus more on understanding ideas and concepts or whether to learn facts has been going on for decades. While merely learning facts may seem valuable for a short-time, may not be productive in a long run. Thus I support that it is more important to understand concepts than learn facts.
Most teachers teach their students basic facts. The exams further conducted expect student to simply learn and memorize these facts for a good result. Therefore, students don't really understand the concept but simply memorize for good marks and forget what was learnt soon after it. I can explain through a personal experience. In grade 10, I had a History teacher who didn't ask us to remember dates of various wars. She made sure we understood why the wars happened, the results and their implications which in turn made it easy to know which order they took place in. If she had not done so I would probably not be able to still recollect most years and why the specific wars took place. So to gain knowledge facts simply are not useful, understanding them is infact necessary.
Secondly, understanding concepts ensures that we think. Simply grasping the facts won't make us wonder about how, why or when things happened. Innovation happens because we think. We think better when we understand. A friend of mine was didn't do well in her science exams. Most people assumed she was just not good at it. However she now owns an IT company and employs 25 and more people at the age of 20. This portrays that she probably wasn't that good at memorizing the facts and writing down in the exams but she indeed understood her concepts and was able to implement it far better than those who scored high. Thus technological advancements, innovations and creativity aren't dependent on the ability grasp facts but more to absorb their essence and apply them in our daily life.
Hence, students shouldn't be merely forced to learn but to actually understand it. This would be more beneficial to the development of the students and our society. Schools should adopt better teaching strategies to ensure this.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, hence, however, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, thus, well, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 43.0788530466 102% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 52.1666666667 67% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1765.0 1977.66487455 89% => OK
No of words: 364.0 407.700716846 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8489010989 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36792674256 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55954772706 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 212.727598566 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565934065934 0.524837075471 108% => OK
syllable_count: 522.0 618.680645161 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.962907548 48.9658058833 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.7391304348 100.406767564 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8260869565 20.6045352989 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5652173913 5.45110844103 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 5.5376344086 199% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => 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: 0.390632459214 0.236089414692 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0981211761864 0.076458572812 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.114382801202 0.0737576698707 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.247975318884 0.150856017488 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.164108998796 0.0645574589148 254% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 11.7677419355 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 73.17 58.1214874552 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.8 10.1575268817 67% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.55 10.9000537634 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.63 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 86.8835125448 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => 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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 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.