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?

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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?

Being smart is not enough to be successful in your career. Even though you graduated with the first class honor, you cannot get the good job without any prior working experiences or extra curriculum activities. However, It doesn’t mean that knowledge gained from the lessons is not necessary. Both academic result and personal experiences are important, but they are different in many aspects. I will elaborate in detail through the following paragraphs.

First of all, knowledge from book is a basement for a further application. Without reading books, you know nothing. Books contain facts, theories and basic knowledge. It is good to start learning from book. For example, I begin learning the principal of marketing from the lecture and textbooks. Therefore, I can understand the lesson clearly and remember all key points from the books. Consequently, I got A which make my transcript more attractive to the human resource team. However, most of thing I have learned from books are about theories. I sincerely admit that I have no idea of how to handle a problem in a real situation.

On the other hand, learning from work would provide practical experiences. Apart from basic knowledge, people have to practice the knowledge they have learned from classes in the real situation. By facing such a real circumstance, people would be more stressful and thoughtful about what are they going to do. For example, I was a market research intern last summer at Younet Media Company. My job is to conduct thorough research about a social listening market in Thailand. I applied the research procedure I had learned from class to the research topic. This makes me understand more about how the solution in the textbook came from. It came from the curiosity of the researcher. I think I understand the lessons deeper than before taking an internship.

In conclusion, both learning resources are essential to achieve your goal. Learning in class would give you strong basic knowledge. Additionally, by practicing and facing real problem would make your more skillful. To sum up, both knowledge are needed to be accomplished by people who want to be successful.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, however, if, so, therefore, apart from, for example, i think, in conclusion, in fact, you know, first of all, to sum up, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.0286738351 36% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 43.0788530466 72% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 52.1666666667 102% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1816.0 1977.66487455 92% => OK
No of words: 355.0 407.700716846 87% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11549295775 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83784607811 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 212.727598566 94% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560563380282 0.524837075471 107% => OK
syllable_count: 540.9 618.680645161 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.994623655914 0% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 20.1344086022 65% => OK
Sentence length SD: 24.1405350417 48.9658058833 49% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 67.2592592593 100.406767564 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.1481481481 20.6045352989 64% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.07407407407 5.45110844103 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.88709677419 286% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.26251640945 0.236089414692 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0668370379883 0.076458572812 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0602433091175 0.0737576698707 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149135338287 0.150856017488 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0399903572249 0.0645574589148 62% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 11.7677419355 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.74 58.1214874552 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 10.1575268817 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.53 10.9000537634 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 86.8835125448 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.0537634409 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 61.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
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