TPO-07 - Independent Writing Task 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.

The primary goal of education is to form critical thinking, and the utimate purpose of tertiary education is to teach students the method of self-learning. In my opinion, it is imperative for students to acquire the capbility of understanding ideas and concepts in order to develop critical thinking and self-learning method.

To begin with, the ability to comprehend ideas and concepts is essential to develop critical thinking. Steps in acquiring the ability of critical thinking involve complex ideas and concepts, such as background information, alternative choices and possible consequences. Without the competence of utilizing ideas and concepts in critical thinking, one can never distinguish right from wrong and make a reasonable judgement. My own experience is an apposite example. I can never tell what is real and what is lie until I learnt logics after I attended university. Before that, I was just a lost child in a foggy society without knowing which direction should I go. Understanding logics helps me tremendously in make a lucid and solid direction in my life.

Moreover, undrestanding ideas and concepts suffice students to develop self-learning method. The ability to comprehend ideas and concepts is essential to build the structure of self-learning method. One who acquires the self-learning method will never need to learn from tuitors any more, instead he learn by himself. The more ideas and concepts that a person knows, the more lucid view towards study will he develop. Culmulation of ideas and concepts is the source of self-learning because individuals can approach study in diffierent prespective and achieve an holistic understanding. I use ideas and concepts I have learnt before to help myself in learning new subject, such as architecture, psychology and law.

In conclusion, understanding ideas and concepts is more improtant than learning facts. The reason is that comprehending ideas and concepts is benefical in developing critical thinking and self-learn method, which are the aim of secondary and tertiary education respectively.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 301, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'learns'.
Suggestion: learns
...learn from tuitors any more, instead he learn by himself. The more ideas and concepts...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 561, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...y in diffierent prespective and achieve an holistic understanding. I use ideas and...
^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, moreover, second, so, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 13.8261648746 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 43.0788530466 44% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 52.1666666667 82% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1761.0 1977.66487455 89% => OK
No of words: 321.0 407.700716846 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.48598130841 4.8611393121 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.48103885553 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.19627990011 2.67179642975 120% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 212.727598566 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.501557632399 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 547.2 618.680645161 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.994623655914 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.0781385664 48.9658058833 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.588235294 100.406767564 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8823529412 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.58823529412 5.45110844103 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 11.8709677419 34% => 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: 0.197757906848 0.236089414692 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0782375311906 0.076458572812 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0688129004655 0.0737576698707 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141507948993 0.150856017488 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0524891243395 0.0645574589148 81% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 11.7677419355 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 58.1214874552 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.56 10.9000537634 134% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 86.8835125448 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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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