It has been said, "Not everything that is learned is contained in books." Compare and contrast the knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why? Use specific reasons and example to

Knowledge is of extreme importance not only when it comes to us developing a certain skill or getting qualified for a job, but also when we must deal with everyday situations. Some people tend to rely on books, while others prefer to experience reality and learn from their background effectively.

What I believe that we are comparing are two essential things for human development: theory and practice. If we think of books as the theory part and experience as the practice part, what is one without the other? Books can give us basic knowledge, but we cannot understand how to put it in practice. Knowledge learned from own experience is usually far more valuable, as there is no better teacher than what you have personally gone through.

I have always put practice a little further up the pyramid than theory. If you are theoretically knowledgeable but cannot put into effect any of it – it is all basically futile. Whereas if you do not have the information from books, but you manage to learn from your mistakes and be present, you will able to succeed, although it will be a long way until you get where you want to.

Books accelerate the process of learning, they are extremely valuable when you know how to use them properly. However, if all there was were books, no personal experiences, no learning from past mistakes – they would not be of your help because all you are doing is gathering information that would be of no value to you whatsoever.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, whereas, while, you know

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 43.0788530466 72% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 52.1666666667 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1226.0 1977.66487455 62% => OK
No of words: 257.0 407.700716846 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.77042801556 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.48103885553 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69733733521 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 212.727598566 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.5953307393 0.524837075471 113% => OK
syllable_count: 381.6 618.680645161 62% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 9.59856630824 31% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.94265232975 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 20.6003584229 53% => 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: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.6127000039 48.9658058833 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.454545455 100.406767564 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3636363636 20.6045352989 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.72727272727 5.45110844103 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => 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: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.162527992331 0.236089414692 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0584009710316 0.076458572812 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0493949604455 0.0737576698707 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101515922384 0.150856017488 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0273653273342 0.0645574589148 42% => 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: 12.7 11.7677419355 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 58.1214874552 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 10.9000537634 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 86.8835125448 59% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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.

More content wanted.

Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6.0
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