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. Some people think that getting knowledge from books is more beneficial for most people. However, 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, before I worked in the hospital, I did not know about the procedure for administrating chemotherapy because I read once from books, but it was not explained correctly. But, when I saw the procedure in front of me, I knew the exact chemotherapy treatment without any doubt of having a biased view like in some books.
Adding to the previous point, most books do not have updated information; most of their knowledge tends to be obsolete. Therefore, people can gain some old knowledge that is not applicable in our daily life. In contrast, when people experience the situation, they can get the newest version of the event. For example, in my hometown Saudi Arabia, most of the books that are in schools have very outdated knowledge. Thus, when students get graduated and start working in the field, they noticed that the work environment is totally different than what they studied in books. Indeed, most Saudi’s students find out that the experience is the fresh source of information not books.
In conclusion, I encourage 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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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 542, Rule ID: RATHER_THEN[2]
Message: Did you mean 'different 'from''? 'Different than' is often considered colloquial style.
Suggestion: from
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, therefore, thus, 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 : 3.0 13.8261648746 22% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.0286738351 163% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 43.0788530466 88% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 52.1666666667 88% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1694.0 1977.66487455 86% => OK
No of words: 353.0 407.700716846 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79886685552 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33454660006 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69682433814 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 212.727598566 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.478753541076 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 513.0 618.680645161 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.198517593 48.9658058833 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.7 100.406767564 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.65 20.6045352989 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.75 5.45110844103 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.148850670944 0.236089414692 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0493030153197 0.076458572812 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0369774770757 0.0737576698707 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104673415669 0.150856017488 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0396678788898 0.0645574589148 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 11.7677419355 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 58.1214874552 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.26 10.9000537634 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.21 8.01818996416 90% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 86.8835125448 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => 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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