As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and mysterious.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take

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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and mysterious.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

Submitted by Phoebe on Sat, 10/15/2016 - 13:03

The statement claims that as our knowledge increases, things do not become more comprehensible, rather more complex and mysterious. Surely, from kindergarten to college, the knowledge is getting more and more complex. Nonetheless, as our repertoire of knowledge is getting bigger every day, we are able to apprehend more and more complex things. The statement is therefore false.

As we acquiring more knowledge, things do become more complex, but it does not mean that they are not comprehensible. The process for a person to learn, by nature, is from easy knowledge to more difficult ones. Along with the process of learning, we can apprehend more complicated knowledge. Take learning math for an example: people learn basic calculations before they move on to equations. The more we learn, the harder we will find Math is. Nevertheless, most people have mastered Fractions, Equations, and Coordinate Geometry by the end of high school. Therefore, knowledge is getting more complex as the nature of learning process; still, it could still be comprehensible.

In addition, in any field when people acquire more knowledge, their repertoire will for sure get expanded, which makes things relatively more comprehensible. Surely, one can understand more when they have more knowledge and richer experience. For example, in the field of teaching English language learners with diverse cultural backgrounds, a more experienced and better-trained teacher can better understand how different cultures affect the learners’ learning behavior and out coming. By contrast, lacking knowledge will result in can result in cultural misunderstanding. Thus, having more knowledge helps people appreciate the more complex knowledge.

Surely, some knowledge does seem complex and mysterious; yet, it only because as laymen, we do not study related knowledge in that field. Take Physics for example, as a subject like Math and English, most people have learned Newton’s Laws before college. It is therefore not much of a mystery. By contrast, with the black hole theory, if not majoring in the field, people seldom dig deep to study it. Consequently, it appears to be complex to common people. So, if we have studied and acquired more knowledge in a field, things will not be so much of a mystery.

In conclusion, the more we acquire the knowledge in a field, the more we can apprehend complex things in the field. For things in other fields, they appear mysterious only because we are laymen. If we acquire more knowledge about them, they will also be comprehensible.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...appreciate the more complex knowledge. Surely, some knowledge does seem complex...
^^^

Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'consequently', 'if', 'nevertheless', 'nonetheless', 'so', 'still', 'therefore', 'thus', 'for example', 'in addition', 'in conclusion']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.205394190871 0.240241500013 85% => OK
Verbs: 0.149377593361 0.157235817809 95% => OK
Adjectives: 0.105809128631 0.0880659088768 120% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0871369294606 0.0497285424764 175% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0539419087137 0.0444667217837 121% => OK
Prepositions: 0.112033195021 0.12292977631 91% => OK
Participles: 0.0352697095436 0.0406280797675 87% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.03787265378 2.79330140395 109% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0165975103734 0.030933414821 54% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0622406639004 0.0997080785238 62% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0228215767635 0.0249443105267 91% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00829875518672 0.0148568991511 56% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2574.0 2732.02544248 94% => OK
No of words: 407.0 452.878318584 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.32432432432 6.0361032391 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49157444576 4.58838876751 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.41769041769 0.366273622748 114% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.31941031941 0.280924506359 114% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.223587223587 0.200843997647 111% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.162162162162 0.132149295362 123% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03787265378 2.79330140395 109% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 219.290929204 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.469287469287 0.48968727796 96% => OK
Word variations: 50.6700080681 55.4138127331 91% => OK
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6194690265 121% => OK
Sentence length: 16.28 23.380412469 70% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.5543229296 59.4972553346 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.96 141.124799967 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.28 23.380412469 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.52 0.674092028746 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 48.221031941 51.4728631049 94% => OK
Elegance: 1.21428571429 1.64882698954 74% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.486235620944 0.391690518653 124% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.111166904578 0.123202303941 90% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0775638004616 0.077325440228 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.495078755769 0.547984918172 90% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.132594705197 0.149214159877 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.179400788963 0.161403998019 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0978744562506 0.0892212321368 110% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.359029910654 0.385218514788 93% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0855052108316 0.0692045440612 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.342745469832 0.275328986314 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0579395625218 0.0653680567796 89% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.4325221239 77% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.30420353982 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 16.0 4.88274336283 328% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 8.0 7.22455752212 111% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.66592920354 27% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 9.0 2.70907079646 332% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.5995575221 132% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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The issues of the essay is that the outlines are not clear. Then you can't expand the topic.

The topic wants to prove that there is a connection between more knowledge and less comprehension/complex. Now we need to argue against it that there is no such connection.

As we told, when we are no ideas for the topic, we call TLPE:

T: time. As time goes by, more knowledge will mean more comprehension and less complexity. Take Edison who made the light bulb as an example

L: location. seems it is not related with this topic. We can ignore it.

P: people. We can use ourselves as examples. from primary school to university, more knowledge means more comprehension.

E: event. It really happens sometimes. for example, in research area. but still can argue against. Maybe it is on a wrong way at the moment, or other fields are not advanced enough and get stuck, etc...and the development of Internet will help to fix the complexity.

lacking knowledge will result in can result in cultural misunderstanding.
lacking knowledge will result in cultural misunderstanding.

flaws:
No. of Words: 407 while No. of Different Words: 176 //it means ideas are duplicated

read this sample:
http://www.testbig.com/gmatgre-issue-task-essays/we-acquire-more-knowle…

it is in our pattern and it disagrees with the statement.

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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 407 350
No. of Characters: 2070 1500
No. of Different Words: 176 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.492 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.086 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.825 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 161 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 118 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 80 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.28 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.03 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.365 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.533 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.197 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5