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?
I think both books and experiences give knowledge that is useful for everybody in his/her daily life and professional life. However, there are differences between knowledge that is obtained from books and knowledge that is gained from experiences. Both are of critical importance, but my personal impression is that the books give more useful knowledge that help people in their real and daily life. I will present the reasons in the following paragraphs.
First of all, the books contain the results of the experiences of others who have been in similar or different situations. In fact, the books are the records of the experiences of the writers and those that the books tell about them. For example, the book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, that is written by Dale Carnegie, is full of experiences and knowledge gained by others in their life. So, this book is a collection of the experiences and knowledge that I can rarely gain them in the real life.
Second, the books are usually carefully written and compiled. Some of the books are records of experiments and some of them records of the people observations. These sort of knowledge are valuable, because they are carefully written and looked from diverse angles the experiences or the knowledge that they recorded. On the other hand, personal experiences which lead to knowledge usually are not carefully observed. There are aspects that might be neglected or overseen by the person. For example, I have written many texts but have noticed the errors and mistakes. While the editor has notified me of the errors.
Third, the books contain knowledge that is acquired by a great number of people in different situations and settings. Therefore, they could be a good resource and reference for extracting theories and even principles as guidelines for any actions. An example for this is “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” written by Covey. The book is based on the real experiences of the people, those who have been highly effective in various settings. The author has extracted certain practical principles as guidelines for any actions to be successful.
Although, I acknowledge that the knowledge gain by personal experiences are valuable, but the life and scope of one person experiences are limited. So that, the knowledge gain through this sort of experiences are limited. For example, my friend has studied economics and works for three years as consultant in the areas related to economy. However, she has worked in an only one area and live in small town and had interactions with a limited number of people. It is difficult to generalize this knowledge and use it in other settings.
In conclusion, both sets of knowledge gained from experiences and books are important references for one’s action, however, the books provide better and more useful knowledge than experiences. Even though the books are records of the experiences. This is due to firstly books are records of experiences, second, these records are carefully written and observed, thirdly, this knowledge are obtained from various angles because they are records of many people experiences, and finally, these records allow to extract theories and principles as guidelines for any actions.
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...more useful knowledge than experiences. Even though the books are records of the experience...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, look, second, so, therefore, third, thirdly, while, for example, i think, in conclusion, in fact, sort of, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 15.1003584229 232% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 31.0 13.8261648746 224% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 43.0788530466 107% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 52.1666666667 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2751.0 1977.66487455 139% => OK
No of words: 530.0 407.700716846 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19056603774 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79809637944 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83509072325 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.407547169811 0.524837075471 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 861.3 618.680645161 139% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 9.59856630824 167% => OK
Article: 10.0 3.08781362007 324% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.9837820506 48.9658058833 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.25 100.406767564 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9285714286 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.46428571429 5.45110844103 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.53405017921 132% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => 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: 0.234839016051 0.236089414692 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0736440140409 0.076458572812 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0793467080155 0.0737576698707 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14212854484 0.150856017488 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0345839438852 0.0645574589148 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 11.7677419355 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 10.9000537634 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.01818996416 97% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 86.8835125448 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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