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.

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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.

Some people believe that it is important to understand ideas and concepts than to learn facts and others believe the vice versa. In my opinion understanding ideas and concepts is more important than learning facts. Understanding ideas and concepts acts as a platform in the development of an individual and helps an individual to solve problems in real life. However, I also feel that one must spend quality time on understanding the significance of facts. The learning of a student must depend on understanding ideas and concepts for various reasons.

First, understanding the ideas and concepts helps an individual to get a better outlook of the subject. If we understand the ideas and concepts then we can apply them in various problems and come up with better solutions. Consider for instance the field of engineering. The field of engineering is filled with concepts and ideas, once we start understanding them we can apply them to solve real life problems that are modelled into engineering problems. If we spend more of our time in learning facts than understanding concepts then we won't be able to solve new problems. For example, when I was in my first year of under graduation, I spent more of time in memorizing the theorems, the statements of proofs and formulas. However I couldn't understand the concepts behind it. During my examination, I understood where I was lacking. I could solve problems that were easy and just needed direct application of formulas, however I couldn't solve problems that needed me to understand the concept and then use formulas. This is when I understood the importance of understanding concepts rather than just remembering the facts.

Creativity and imagination of a person increases when he/she spends quality time on understanding the concepts. If we complement our studies with experiments, then we will be able to understand better and also apply them in many diverse areas. When we spend time on the concept then we understand the ramifications of the concept. We start finding examples where this can be applied and we also understand where the following concepts fails. Hence, this helps us to have a complete understanding of the concept. For example, in my above example, one of my friends understood the concepts pretty well. He was able to apply them in various experiments he did. He tried to reason and question each of steps we followed in our experiments. This provided him an immense amount of knowledge. He started doing small projects and writing papers about the flaws. This is when I understood that it is important for us to question the ideas presented and that will in turn help us understand the concept better.

Finally, I think that ideas and concepts need to be given more priority than learning facts. By thoroughly understanding the ideas and concepts, it will help us to come up with new concepts that will help us to solve many unsolved problems on the earth. However, it is also important that we know the facts. We don't need to memorize them but we should know the importance they play in developing a concept. A concept generally relies on some facts, so it is important for us to know the context of the facts and there significance too.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'for example', 'for instance', 'i think', 'in my opinion']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.206429780034 0.229887763892 90% => OK
Verbs: 0.186125211506 0.158761421928 117% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0626057529611 0.0866891130778 72% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0423011844332 0.046263068375 91% => OK
Pronouns: 0.10152284264 0.0685040099705 148% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.118443316413 0.118717715034 100% => OK
Participles: 0.0439932318105 0.0351676179071 125% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.90253103664 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0287648054146 0.0309702414327 93% => OK
Particles: 0.00338409475465 0.00188951952338 179% => OK
Determiners: 0.0862944162437 0.0887237588012 97% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0203045685279 0.0209618222197 97% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0203045685279 0.0139019557991 146% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3223.0 2387.08602151 135% => OK
No of words: 544.0 408.028673835 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.92463235294 5.86048508987 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82947280553 4.48200974243 108% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.336397058824 0.338922669872 99% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.268382352941 0.251872472559 107% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.216911764706 0.174417080927 124% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.125 0.112833075102 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90253103664 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 212.727598566 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.380514705882 0.524397521467 73% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 44.1380455743 59.2087087015 75% => OK
How many sentences: 31.0 20.6684587814 150% => OK
Sentence length: 17.5483870968 20.5533526081 85% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.6693539755 48.84282405 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.967741935 120.699889404 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5483870968 20.5533526081 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.483870967742 0.644075263715 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.5376344086 88% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.54480286738 108% => OK
Readability: 44.3866223909 45.7405998639 97% => OK
Elegance: 1.11794871795 1.45489161554 77% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.385892152295 0.300154397459 129% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.119824705447 0.103427244359 116% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0907264478316 0.0752933317313 120% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.446441894145 0.497263757937 90% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.124578776032 0.151897553556 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143245749045 0.114077575197 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0892827676906 0.0781384742642 114% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.537782221471 0.336927656856 160% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0572645324336 0.067059652881 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.321188095471 0.210909579961 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0528301151561 0.0618886996521 85% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8870967742 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.86379928315 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.91756272401 224% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 16.0 8.42114695341 190% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 2.4623655914 81% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.75985663082 181% => OK
Total topic words: 23.0 13.6433691756 169% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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