Facts are derived from ideas and concepts. I agree with the statement that students should learn ideas and concepts instead of learning only facts. I feel this way for two reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
First, it will increase our depth of knowledge. Learning only facts we will be able to remember the fact but won't be able to learn about the facts like how it comes or what is the historical context of the fact. In contrast, if we learn the concept and thought behind it, we will be able to learn from its root and it will increase our both understanding and knowledge. From this knowledge, we will be able to derive the fact by ourselves. My own experience demonstrates the advantage of learning the concepts and facts. About ten years ago, when I was in class seven, one mathematics teacher taught me math. He always told me to learn how a formula comes from theory and discourage me to learn only the formula. But I was always curious about this and sometimes I feel like he is the worst teacher who keeps the pressure on me to learn the theory of formulas. But one day, during an examination, I was not able to remember one of the most important formula which was required to solve numerous problem. Then I recalled the theory of the formula and it enables me to derive the formula. Therefore, I was able to solve all the problems. This was not possible if I only learned the formula.
Second, it makes us more creative. Knowing different concept helps us gather the concept and invent something new. On the other hand, knowing facts not only decrease our capacity of learning but also inhibit our ability to think. For example, about five years ago, when I was at college, I had two friends: Farid and Jamal. Both are intelligent and always did better results. But there is a contrasting behavior of these two, Farid thought that remembering facts is enough for studying history, ideas and concepts are not necessary. But Jamal did think just opposite of this. He enthusiastically learns all the background and reasons behind a historical fact. This helped him to learn deeply about the facts. For this extensive knowledge, he became a great historian of that era and made some creative discoveries about ancient peoples. But, Farid was not able to do such great things.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that learning and understanding the ideas and concepts is more important than the facts. Because it increases our knowledge and make us creative.
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- TOEFL T P O 11 - Integrated Writing Task 3
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- integrated writing TPO 7 47
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, second, so, then, therefore, thus, for example, i feel, in conclusion, in contrast, 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: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 13.8261648746 181% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 57.0 43.0788530466 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 52.1666666667 96% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2058.0 1977.66487455 104% => OK
No of words: 435.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.73103448276 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56690854021 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59563950333 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 212.727598566 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.464367816092 0.524837075471 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 632.7 618.680645161 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 9.59856630824 167% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.3104305367 48.9658058833 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 73.5 100.406767564 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5357142857 20.6045352989 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.39285714286 5.45110844103 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211556365843 0.236089414692 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0632990036919 0.076458572812 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0782307979585 0.0737576698707 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.193761140193 0.150856017488 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.085764023461 0.0645574589148 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.6 11.7677419355 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 58.1214874552 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 10.1575268817 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.86 10.9000537634 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.43 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 86.8835125448 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 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: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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