"Students should memorize facts only after they have studied the ideas, trends, and concepts that help explain those facts.
Students who have learned only facts have learned very little."
do facts facilitate learning on their own or do they best serve as examples for understanding concepts and ideas taught in a better way? Although students may believe that memorizing information directly is an indicator of their intellectual ability because of the type of questions asked in exams, when it comes to thriving in a work environment, reliance on memory can prove futile since real life challenges cannot be dealt with without applying knowledge and problem solving skills.
One example which demonstrates the vitality of understanding concepts instead of mugging up factual content is lawyers arguing in court. Though they need to remember laws and constitutional rights, and study lots of cases, without their ability to understand which arguments to put forward and which precedents to cite for the case they are presently dealing with, they cannot be successful.
Like lawyers, the job of engineers and scientists not only requires them to have a remarkable understanding of the concepts which explain the various phenomenon in our surroundings, but also be able to continue to come up with new ideas and models that improves this understanding. Specifically, if they merely memorize the features of a particular technology, there would be wide gaps in their knowledge about how it works and by the time they do that, another technology would come up which they would want to know about, and so on.
In conclusion, it is extremely important to grasp concepts properly before the facts supporting them can serve a useful purpose. As students move from writing exams to working as lawyers or scientists, their understanding is of utmost importance to help them function in these roles in the best possible way.
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- "Students should memorize facts only after they have studied the ideas, trends, and concepts that help explain those facts.Students who have learned only facts have learned very little." 50
- Fifteen years ago, Omega University implemented a new procedure that encouraged students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their professors. Since that time, Omega professors have begun to assign higher grades in their classes, and overall stu 63
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Do
do facts facilitate learning on their own ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.5258426966 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1452.0 2235.4752809 65% => OK
No of words: 280.0 442.535393258 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18571428571 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.55969084622 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95586368123 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 215.323595506 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.628571428571 0.4932671777 127% => OK
syllable_count: 444.6 704.065955056 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 20.2370786517 40% => 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: 35.0 23.0359550562 152% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 76.2773516517 60.3974514979 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 181.5 118.986275619 153% => OK
Words per sentence: 35.0 23.4991977007 149% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.625 5.21951772744 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.129014995225 0.243740707755 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0548294272301 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0371878103572 0.0758088955206 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0707845993335 0.150359130593 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0214880347218 0.0667264976115 32% => 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: 20.5 14.1392134831 145% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.95 48.8420337079 74% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.9 12.1743820225 139% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.6 8.38706741573 114% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 100.480337079 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 20.5 11.8971910112 172% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.0 11.2143820225 143% => OK
text_standard: 21.0 11.7820224719 178% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 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: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.