Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?It is more important for the students to learn concepts and ideas than it is for them to learn facts.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is more important for the students to learn concepts and ideas than it is for them to learn facts.

Since the beginning of this century, in the distinctive civilized societies, it has been a controversial argument among individuals, through which numerous conflicts have been engendered. Some people are inclined toward the opinion that learning facts in school is more imperative than learning concepts and ideas, while others consider this issue in a whole diverse perspective. Although an absolute conclusion cannot be made, in spite of all opposite attitudes, I strongly concur with the idea that learning concepts and ideas is a must. The outstanding reasons for my opinion would be explored as follows.

First and foremost, learning concepts and ideas helps students found a framework of thinking. I realize that some people would disagree with me; however, this is my viewpoint that not only do concepts and ideas broaden one's knowledge but also they enhance the creativity of that individual. As a matter of fact, I believe that school subjects in terms of concepts have a lot in common. Therefore, by learning a few principles one will be able to combine his/her knowledge of different academic subjects.

In addition to creating a framework for thinking, there are copious facts that school would not be able to cover all of them. Despite concepts of every school subject that are few, there are so many facts that curriculum cannot include them. To illustrate, if a literature teacher teach students what is symbolism, they would be able to discover symbolism in too many classic novels on their own. However, the teacher would not be able to mention all the symbolism examples in novels.
Furthermore, a former student will not be able to remember all the facts that he/she learned in school due to their abundance; however, he/she can recall most of the concepts that he/she learned in school. From my personal experience, I am able to remember that the teacher of my creative writing course taught me how to construct the plot of a story. On the contrary, I am not able to recall most of the facts that he discussed about in the class.

Apart from the points made above there is also another reason that deserves some words here. That is, to learn facts, one must know the basic concepts or ideas behind it. As a case in point, one should comprehend the primary concepts of physics such as gravity in order to be able to utilize them for solving problems. If one did not understand a concept, he/ she would not be able to fathom the facts relevant to that concept. For instance, I could not realize the basic logic behind algebra, so I had difficulties in learning the equations.

By way of conclusion, based on aforementioned arguments I am in favor of the statement that it is essential for students to perceive concepts and ideas rather than facts. Since it would broaden one’s knowledge, make learning the facts easier for him/her, needs less effort to recall.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 220, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
... not only do concepts and ideas broaden ones knowledge but also they enhance the cre...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'therefore', 'while', 'apart from', 'for instance', 'in addition', 'such as', 'as a matter of fact', 'in spite of', 'on the contrary']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.21978021978 0.229887763892 96% => OK
Verbs: 0.157509157509 0.158761421928 99% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0805860805861 0.0866891130778 93% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0494505494505 0.046263068375 107% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0512820512821 0.0685040099705 75% => OK
Prepositions: 0.142857142857 0.118717715034 120% => OK
Participles: 0.0347985347985 0.0351676179071 99% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.68956693983 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.032967032967 0.0309702414327 106% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00188951952338 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0915750915751 0.0887237588012 103% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.029304029304 0.0209618222197 140% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.010989010989 0.0139019557991 79% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2893.0 2387.08602151 121% => OK
No of words: 488.0 408.028673835 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.92827868852 5.86048508987 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70007681154 4.48200974243 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.362704918033 0.338922669872 107% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.286885245902 0.251872472559 114% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.213114754098 0.174417080927 122% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.106557377049 0.112833075102 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68956693983 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 212.727598566 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506147540984 0.524397521467 97% => OK
Word variations: 59.3175577326 59.2087087015 100% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6684587814 106% => OK
Sentence length: 22.1818181818 20.5533526081 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.1864713472 48.84282405 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.5 120.699889404 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1818181818 20.5533526081 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.727272727273 0.644075263715 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.5376344086 132% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.54480286738 18% => OK
Readability: 50.870342772 45.7405998639 111% => OK
Elegance: 1.5390070922 1.45489161554 106% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.364115081834 0.300154397459 121% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.120085715287 0.103427244359 116% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0871473778373 0.0752933317313 116% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.552202498137 0.497263757937 111% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.121389178697 0.151897553556 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.141303165101 0.114077575197 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0835079027576 0.0781384742642 107% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.356299191556 0.336927656856 106% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0594568416104 0.067059652881 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.238588235146 0.210909579961 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0823886456923 0.0618886996521 133% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8870967742 59% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.86379928315 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.91756272401 224% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 7.0 8.42114695341 83% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 2.4623655914 122% => OK
Neutral topic words: 10.0 2.75985663082 362% => OK
Total topic words: 20.0 13.6433691756 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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