As the saying goes- if you can explain it well to a layman, that means you have understood it well. With this thought in mind, I agree with the given topic that it is more important for students to understand concepts than it for them to learn facts. The reasons for my belief are elucidated further in the following paragraphs.
If we just do rote learning and memorize the facts, how are we different from Robots? Are robot is programmed in such a way that if x happens it has to do y, but if it has not been told if z happens what it is supposed o do it is clueless. Our ability to adapt comes from the basic conceptual understanding- if we are trapped and if we know our concepts well, we can fight it out and survive, but if we just remembered the fact that in an enclosed box, entire oxygen will eventually be converted to carbon dioxide and we will de, we will give up fighting.
Further even for programmers this holds true, a programmer may know for a fact the merge sort is more efficient, but may not know how it is implemented, what is the concept of merge sort, so in that scenario, when the programmer is asked to design a software that is fast but uses minimum memory and he goes just by the knowledge of his facts, he may fail at the given task at hand. Hence it is of utmost importance to deep dive and understands the topic clearly so that it can be implemented and molded according to the situation.
Thus, according to the aforementioned paradigms, i strongly agree with the given topic that it is more important for students to understand the ideas and the concepts than learning the facts.
- Some parents forbid young children from owning smart phones (cell phones with Internet access), while others disagree and believe that they are important tools for keeping in touch. Which point of view do you think is better, and why? 80
- "Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned wit 55
- A person who knowingly commits a crime has broken the social contract and should not retain any civil rights or the right to benefit from his or her own labor. 66
- It is more important to keep your old friends than to make new friends. 76
- TOEFL integrated writing: Dutch painter Rembrandt 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 80, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... true, a programmer may know for a fact the merge sort is more efficient, but may not kno...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 384, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... he may fail at the given task at hand. Hence it is of utmost importance to deep dive...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, if, may, so, thus, well, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 43.0788530466 97% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 52.1666666667 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1320.0 1977.66487455 67% => OK
No of words: 301.0 407.700716846 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.3853820598 4.8611393121 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.48103885553 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63005024091 2.67179642975 98% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 212.727598566 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.508305647841 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 405.0 618.680645161 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.51630824373 86% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 20.6003584229 44% => 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: 33.0 20.1344086022 164% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 98.856549019 48.9658058833 202% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 146.666666667 100.406767564 146% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.4444444444 20.6045352989 162% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.66666666667 5.45110844103 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 11.8709677419 42% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.381318506499 0.236089414692 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.171991270112 0.076458572812 225% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.213526955409 0.0737576698707 289% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.293080145246 0.150856017488 194% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.19727274334 0.0645574589148 306% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 11.7677419355 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 63.36 58.1214874552 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 10.1575268817 124% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.77 10.9000537634 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 86.8835125448 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 10.0537634409 151% => 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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