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
It is known that teaching and learning are pivotal factors of knowledge building. Concepts are more general and need to be understood, while facts are specific and are usually memorized. I agree with the given statement that it is crucial for students to understand ideas and concepts than just learn facts.
Learning facts is usually a quick process accomplished by memorization. For this reason, it last very short because we easily forget something we memorize quickly. For example, when we memorize a subject the day before a test, we would easily forget the content maybe unfortunately before the test and what is worst we simple do not learn about the subject.
However, understanding concepts is a long process made by gathering information and making connections. It is necessary to make mental maps and a lot of reasoning to understand an idea. Since this process is long and harduous, it will last long in our minds, maybe for entire life. For example, when we study for a test and it seriously, we collect information from a wide variety of sources and put it all together from our own words, making a lot of reasoning and understanding the subject. This is how we learn for real, therefore, I believe that effective learning process require understanding of concepts.
Furthermore, it is necessary a lot of critical thinking in order to develop broad conceptual ideas. Students need to develop their skills and knowledge about certain field. For instance, when a test question is a factual question maybe everybody, including those who memorized the content the day before, will answer the question. But conceptual questions are only solved by those who are able to think critically. Consequently, those students who are able to think critically will develop their skills better and will be prepared for the job market in the future.
To sum up, I believe that it is crucial for students to understand concepts than just learn facts because they will realy learn about the subject and consequently will develop their skills and be prepared for job opportunities.
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- TPO- Integrated Writing Task 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 93, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'lasts'?
Suggestion: lasts
...ed by memorization. For this reason, it last very short because we easily forget som...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, furthermore, however, if, may, so, therefore, while, for example, for instance, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 43.0788530466 84% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 52.1666666667 65% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1745.0 1977.66487455 88% => OK
No of words: 344.0 407.700716846 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0726744186 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30665032142 4.48103885553 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83707675777 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 212.727598566 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.470930232558 0.524837075471 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 534.6 618.680645161 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.6805982174 48.9658058833 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.647058824 100.406767564 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2352941176 20.6045352989 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.35294117647 5.45110844103 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.313506113208 0.236089414692 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104681854427 0.076458572812 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111802547282 0.0737576698707 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.202199568879 0.150856017488 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.117131988964 0.0645574589148 181% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 11.7677419355 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 86.8835125448 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => 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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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.