It is more important to understand concepts and ideas than to learn facts.
In our day to day life we are constantly bombarded with facts; sports scores, weather report, stock market movement or just plain old gossip. However men today no longer process everyday information with as much depth as our older generations did. Thereby, it is indeed more important to understand concepts and ideas than to just learn facts for three primary reasons.
Real-life problems require understanding and thinking on feet, be it in academia or industry profession or everyday life. Thus, students need to inculcate skills which provide adaptability in life rather than focus on simply learning facts. I implore the reader to think of an instance where facts solely where responsible for solving a real-life problem. As is evident real life problems are rarely solved through only facts. In many situations a degree from a reputable institute is usually of less importance than the presence of mind, thereby focusing only on learning facts might prove to be counterproductive for students and thus they should focus on understanding.
Globalization and internet have deemed the requirement of remembering facts to be non existant. Today every bit of information is on the fingertips of almost everyone with a smartphone. Thereby it becomes redundant if students focus on learning facts when they are capable of adding value to society on a much higher degree than a smartphone.
Focusing on understanding concepts and ideas has another motivating aspect, it results in development of higher cognitive skills than simple memorisation. Akin to how the body develops through physical excercise, the mind to grows agile through a consistent application of abstract thought process. Thereby students develop stronger neuron connectivity and rapid firing between them. This imporves association and recall increasing the overall performance of the student.
In today's high speed and easily accessable world, it is imperative that students focus on understanding rather than focusing on learning facts.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 143, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...rket movement or just plain old gossip. However men today no longer process everyday in...
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Line 5, column 357, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...nsible for solving a real-life problem. As is evident real life problems are rarel...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, so, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 9.8082437276 31% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.0286738351 45% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 43.0788530466 32% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 52.1666666667 84% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1715.0 1977.66487455 87% => OK
No of words: 311.0 407.700716846 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.51446945338 4.8611393121 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.48103885553 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98470233193 2.67179642975 112% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 212.727598566 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.607717041801 0.524837075471 116% => OK
syllable_count: 529.2 618.680645161 86% => 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
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.3436410727 48.9658058833 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.1875 100.406767564 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4375 20.6045352989 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.3125 5.45110844103 24% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.300203753083 0.236089414692 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0905191101048 0.076458572812 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.127720086764 0.0737576698707 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160883206639 0.150856017488 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0752991475451 0.0645574589148 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 11.7677419355 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 58.1214874552 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 10.9000537634 135% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.66 8.01818996416 120% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 86.8835125448 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 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.