There is no shortage of pedagogic opinions on whether the stress should be placed more on teaching ideas and concepts or on teaching facts. Although some realistic educators believe it is important for students to learn practical information, general educators, including me, hold a strong belief that understanding the big picture is key to successful education.
First of all, it is clear that in order to fully understand a reality, some foundation of basic concepts should be acquired first. There is no doubt without learning and truly understanding the general idea of something, students can easily misunderstand, or not understand at all, its real-life applications. I remember always getting amazed by the story of how Issac Newton discovered gravity. Gravity is a reality everyone can observe with their own eyes. However, without knowing what it really is and how it works, people can't really explain why apples fall from the tree. On the contrary, after the concept was understood and defined, it has become much easier to learn and expect phenomenon caused by the force of the Earth. Thus, taking time learning concepts will help students look at things differently and more accurrately when they learn facts later on.
Moreover, by exploring and gaining understanding of some ideas and concepts, students will be able to expand a wide range of other ideas and even create their own. This is possible thanks to the fact that human brain is advanced at connecting, reflecting and generating ideas continuously. Back to the story above about Newton’s discovery of gravity, a myriad of other concepts and applications have come into existence based on his theory of gravity. Once established, ideas spread like fire from candles to candles. With a variety of established ideas in their heads, no one can anticipate what they will able to invent and create in the future.
In conclusion, it is true that facts are important for students to know, yet in order to make sense and gain true acquisition of information taught at school, it's more beneficial for them to fully comprehend theoretical ideas and concepts first. I believe it's the way education should focus on and not the other way round.
- TPO 07 Integrated Writing TaskIn an effort to encourage ecologically sustainable forestry practices an international organization started issuing certifications to wood companies that meet high ecological standards by conserving resources and recycling 80
- TPO53 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more important for governments to spend money to improve Internet access than to improve public transportation Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 93
- TPO 44 Integrated Writing Task 80
- Tpo 10 Do you agree with statement that playing computer games is a waste of time Children should not be allowed to play them 73
- TOEFL TPO 16 Integrated Writing Task 90
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 528, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...t it really is and how it works, people cant really explain why apples fall from the...
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Line 7, column 257, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...cal ideas and concepts first. I believe its the way education should focus on and n...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, look, moreover, really, so, thus, in conclusion, no doubt, first of all, it is true, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.0286738351 45% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 43.0788530466 56% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1853.0 1977.66487455 94% => OK
No of words: 363.0 407.700716846 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10468319559 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80600386472 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 212.727598566 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575757575758 0.524837075471 110% => OK
syllable_count: 571.5 618.680645161 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => 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: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.1329482476 48.9658058833 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.8125 100.406767564 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6875 20.6045352989 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.5 5.45110844103 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.240174818565 0.236089414692 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0669723699162 0.076458572812 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0592501661621 0.0737576698707 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148366659919 0.150856017488 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0289488581371 0.0645574589148 45% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 11.7677419355 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 58.1214874552 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 10.9000537634 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 86.8835125448 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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