It is said that "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?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
These days, different approaches to learning have been identified to assist a person in their mental development. While some are of the opinion that intelligence can be obtained through reading books, others think that it is not the best source and that they can acquire this through experience.
It is certainly true that reading materials are good sources of information. People have been taught by their parents how to read books even before they started their pre-school years. From the moment they start familiarizing different alphabetical letters and reading by syllables until being able to criticize essays and theoretical books, learners develop an intellectual process which they can use daily. In addition to this, being highly skilled in reading helps them to become mentally competent. They are able to comprehend the gist of what they are reading for them to apply when writing academic essays. To them, being able to read helps them to excel and be skillful in their chosen academe.
However, another way to gain knowledge is practicing what is taught through application. This is because not all information are retained in a person’s memory after reading a certain topic. In fact, only 30 % is absorbed in a human brain while some are forgotten. Furthermore, being exposed in their field of practice activates their problem solving skills which help them to approach different challenges. This further develops their experiential learning which is evident in the medical field, where doctors and nurses are able to apply their knowledge into practice. Once they are more exposed in these areas, they get to understand how to approach different situations enabling them to become experts in the long term.
In conclusion, although books are a good source of knowledge, I believe it is not the best one. Experiential learning has proven to improve how information is retained by the learners as they put what is taught to them into application and expose themselves to various setups in their areas of practice.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: to have
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...em to become experts in the long term. In conclusion, although books are a good...
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...ious setups in their areas of practice.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, however, if, so, while, in addition, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 13.1623246493 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 24.0651302605 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1714.0 1615.20841683 106% => OK
No of words: 329.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20972644377 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25891501996 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76253300675 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537993920973 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 517.5 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.2284133593 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.125 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5625 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 7.06120827912 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0856660371734 0.244688304435 35% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0312971152773 0.084324248473 37% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0306297006356 0.0667982634062 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0558233253433 0.151304729494 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0146069773258 0.056905535591 26% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.4159519038 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 78.4519038076 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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