The debate concerning our education system, especially about whether it should be more academic or practical has drawn great attention from almost everyone. Conservative ideas such as teaching students to understand ideas and concepts is more important than teaching them facts has been in the dominant position for a long time. But in my opinion, I consider these two ideas of the same significance.
Undeniably, academic knowledge such as ideas and concepts is the key to solving not only academic questions but also practical ones. Ideas and concepts in other words are cases of how the forerunners solved problems they were facing, and how they succeeded, therefore understanding them paves the way of solving our problems in the future. If a student who studied in schools for more than a decade yet only knows facts, how is the one unique from archives in libraries? In this era in which every fact can be found online, the ability to come up with ideas and solutions, by which I mean knowing how to apply cases learned in school is the key quality.
Yet, emphasizing the importance of ideas and concepts should not overwhelm the significance of knowing facts, the facts are the basis of good ideas. As stated above, building the understanding of ideas and concepts relies on the accumulation of known facts, and without it, all the ideas and concepts will be just unapplicable fantasies, like a skyscraper without a foundation. For instance, we can always see many people online commenting on topics such as physics and social science. They all act like they have a very wide range of knowledge, but their comments are mostly unpractical and contradictory, and that is exactly the result of over-emphasizing ideas and ignorance of facts.
In conclusion, learning facts is of no less importance than understanding ideas and concepts, as favorable ideas and concepts cannot be built without the knowledge of facts, and facts can not be organized and used without a good idea or concept.
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement To solve the problems of the present and the future people should review the past 76
- TOEFL T P O 20 Integrated Writing Task 3
- It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts 70
- Many scientists believe it would be possible to maintain a permanent human presence on Mars or the Moon On the other hand conditions on Venus are so extreme and inhospitable that maintaining a human presence there would be impossible First atmospheric pre 81
- Eco certification and American wood companies Integrated Reading Section In an effort to encourage ecologically sustainable forestry practices an international organization started issuing certifications to wood companies that meet high ecological standar 85
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, therefore, for instance, i mean, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 13.8261648746 166% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.0286738351 36% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 43.0788530466 42% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 52.1666666667 84% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1669.0 1977.66487455 84% => OK
No of words: 332.0 407.700716846 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02710843373 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86596820809 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 212.727598566 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.545180722892 0.524837075471 104% => OK
syllable_count: 522.0 618.680645161 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 9.59856630824 31% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.86738351254 321% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 20.6003584229 58% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 20.1344086022 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 48.7803324439 48.9658058833 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.083333333 100.406767564 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.6666666667 20.6045352989 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.75 5.45110844103 161% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.439007036004 0.236089414692 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148926950985 0.076458572812 195% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.136650833104 0.0737576698707 185% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.280539228644 0.150856017488 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0670973249161 0.0645574589148 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 11.7677419355 137% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 58.1214874552 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 10.1575268817 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.01818996416 111% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 86.8835125448 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.0537634409 127% => 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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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