Is experiential learning (learning by doing) a better approach as compared to formal education. Do you agree or disagree?

This controversial topic in respect of whether experiential learning can work well formal education never fails to attract the public attention. There has been a hot debate on whether there is a need for students to learn new skills by doing things. As far as I am concerned, I tend to be the advocate regarding this issue.

It is evidently reasonable for me to believe that experiential learning can help students better prepare for future employment. Firstly, it is commonly acknowledged that there are some vital practical skills that cannot be solely learned from books. For instance, health students often need to complete some clinical placements before they are licensed to be practitioners, as using their knowledge on real patients helps them to master the skills comprehensively. In addition, students can also gain valuable hands-on experience from placements. Hence, they are more likely to get a job in the future,

In contrast, people who emphasize the importance of books are primarily focusing on the academic learning process. Nevertheless, this argument cannot hold water. For instance, an undergraduate with the good academic performance but not enough experience is unlikely to be employed by a company.

In a nutshell, due to the mentioned-above discussion, we can safely reach the conclusion that experiential learning plays a vital role in formal education and should not be discount. Despite the fact that learning from books is important, students should focus on putting their knowledge into real practice.

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Average: 7.7 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, nevertheless, regarding, so, well, for instance, in addition, in contrast

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.5418719212 142% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 6.10837438424 164% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 8.36945812808 24% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 5.94088669951 101% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 20.9802955665 91% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 31.9359605911 106% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.75862068966 208% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1300.0 1207.87684729 108% => OK
No of words: 242.0 242.827586207 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37190082645 5.00649968141 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94415379849 3.92707691288 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07674529127 2.71678728327 113% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 139.433497537 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.611570247934 0.580463131201 105% => OK
syllable_count: 397.8 379.143842365 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.6157635468 152% => OK
Article: 1.0 1.56157635468 64% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 12.6551724138 95% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.5024630542 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.8168909901 50.4703680194 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.333333333 104.977214359 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1666666667 20.9669160288 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.91666666667 7.25397266985 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 6.9802955665 129% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 2.91625615764 69% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.18408677887 0.242375264174 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0644815676745 0.0925447433944 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0619913742536 0.071462118173 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111789552682 0.151781067708 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0519698318734 0.0609392437508 85% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 12.6369458128 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.1260098522 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.9458128079 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 11.5310837438 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.32886699507 107% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 55.0591133005 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.94827586207 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.3980295567 96% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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