Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important for students tounderstand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts. Use specific reasons andexamples to support your answer

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important for students to

understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts. Use specific reasons and

examples to support your answer

Learning through concepts is the most effective way of learning and not through facts. I agree with the statement that it is more important for students to understand concept than to learn things by just assuming it as facts.

First and foremost, if you learn things by facts then it will trouble you later. Furthermore, you will not able to correlate it with the previously learnt topics. However, if you understand by concepts then it will be easier to correlate with what you had studied earlier. For example, you are learning special theory of relativity without understanding the real concept behind it, you will not able to digest the general theory of relativity as it is based on knowledge of special relativity, unless you think by conceptual ideas.

Secondly, the major disadvantage of learning through facts is that you need to memorize everything. Moreover, if you will try to memorize everything then you are definitely going to forget some or the other thing and this is affect your academic grade, your knowledge, etc. For example, think of remembering mathematics by equations, you will definitely forgot the equations as mathematics is a very broad topic with many equations, unless you conceptually know its derivation . In addition, students who are now at school level need to study many more things in life and it is not possible for anyone to go by just facts and assumptions.

Lastly, if you learn through the facts, you are learning only about particular topic or questions. For instance if you are asked about a question which is slight different from what you have learned then you will not be able to think out it. After all, you have knowledge of only the fact and that too of only topic you have learnt. On the other hand if you were aware of concept then you will able to think out of box and try solving the mundane problems. In practical life, the problems are not going to be what you have learnt. However, they can be solved if you know the right concept.

In conclusion, I believe that there are benefits of understanding concepts and ideas. As mentioned concepts provides better understanding of problems and better correlation with the things you have learnt.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, lastly, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, after all, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, you know, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 45.0 43.0788530466 104% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1840.0 1977.66487455 93% => OK
No of words: 376.0 407.700716846 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89361702128 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6921495818 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 212.727598566 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.452127659574 0.524837075471 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 555.3 618.680645161 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.8533961843 48.9658058833 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.222222222 100.406767564 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8888888889 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.55555555556 5.45110844103 175% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.260062386193 0.236089414692 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104992570234 0.076458572812 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0837582393341 0.0737576698707 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18107778692 0.150856017488 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0947158424044 0.0645574589148 147% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 11.7677419355 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 10.9000537634 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.4 8.01818996416 92% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 86.8835125448 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200

Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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