Is it more important to understand ideas and concepts than facts?
There is a lot of debate about the greater importance of understanding concepts and ideas versus facts. I agree with this point of view for two reasons which I shall explore in the following paragraphs.
To begin with, I think a significant amount of importance needs to be put on differentiating facts and ideas and to outline the importance of the latter. Facts are things that are true and are undisruptive regardless of anything that happens or what people say; on the other hand concepts are more general ideas supported by evidence, logic and thesis. Concepts can be questioned and altered contingent on a variety of factors. The main difference between the two is that facts are mostly memorized, and concepts are more ought to be understood and grasped. I think in order to become educated for a person and develop critical thinking he really needs to have a broader understanding of concepts and ideas since it will give him the opportunity to analyze and question the nature of the information which is essential in today’s ever-changing world.
Furthermore, the other reason that it is more important to understand concepts versus facts is because there is so much emphasis being put on memorizing facts than on reflecting broader ideas. There is a sense of prioritization of facts in society. For example, the educational system is heavily concentrated on teaching the students to memorize facts rather than more generalized ideas and how to think and evaluate. In my opinion if the school system spent a lot more time teaching their students broader concepts, the importance of analysis and critical thinking our society would be far better off. Emphasis should not be put on historical dates and kings’ names but instead on the conclusions to be the historical lessons.
To sum up I firmly agree with the statement that it is way more important to understand concepts than to memorize facts since understanding wider ideas will help one to learn how to think, analyze and assess the reality surrounding them.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, if, really, so, for example, i think, in my opinion, to begin with, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 43.0788530466 46% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1700.0 1977.66487455 86% => OK
No of words: 338.0 407.700716846 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02958579882 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28774723029 4.48103885553 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91595928105 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 212.727598566 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.508875739645 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 534.6 618.680645161 86% => 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: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.6003584229 63% => 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: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 64.6331477416 48.9658058833 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.769230769 100.406767564 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 20.6045352989 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.76923076923 5.45110844103 161% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.518562676615 0.236089414692 220% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.183582603415 0.076458572812 240% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.133277245468 0.0737576698707 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.332444318434 0.150856017488 220% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0827068824726 0.0645574589148 128% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 11.7677419355 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 58.1214874552 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.1575268817 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 86.8835125448 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => 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: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 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.