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.
As everything in life is like a coin that has two different sides, people must weigh pros and cons before jumping in conclusions. After all, each and every question or topic requires careful deliberation in that there are always multiple variables to a truth. Some people believe that it is vital that students understand ideas and concepts rather for them to learn facts. In my humble opinion, if push comes to shove, learning composed of deep understanding of concepts and ideas for individuals to understand better the topic. I feel this way for two main reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
First of all, the majority of the individuals can see the whole picture if they can absorb it's basic foundation which are the concepts and ideas, without it people will have hard time grasping the subject matter. In addition to this, as a Nurse, we are given heaps of medical books to read and study in order to understand the basics of human life. In other words, first we must focus our mind and energy to the fundamentals of Nursing which is the backbone of it all. Hence, in order to get a feel beyond the science of nursing, one must deal with Anatomy and physiology and will get a sense of how your career will be in the future. If you don't really understand the basic concepts and ideas then you will become inefficient nurse in the future. Others say that in life there are no shortcut, you must go through it all. And I believe that in learning it is also applicable, there are no fast forward in gaining knowledge, there are no learning just the facts but you need to get to know the main source of knowledge beyond it.
On top of it, students tends just know the facts because for them it is much easier for them to learn. As a result, the their grades suffer due to they get low scores. In other words, they really don't understand the lesson because they just memorize based on facts. In addition to this, there are studies in University of the Philippines, majority of the subjects are students from elementary and high school. In this study they will gauge their understanding in given topics. 80% of the respondents did not answer well to questionnaire's or answer sheet because they don't have understood well the topics. Long story short, it's clear as day to me that people who learns facts without the understanding ideas and concepts have detrimental effects.
In summation, yes, it's virtually impossible to provide a complete satisfying answer to an open ended question. Although the jury may be out on this given essay topic, we can come to a mutual agreement that individuals understand better if they understand the concepts and ideas rather than just knowing simple facts due to the reasons and details mentioned above.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, may, really, so, then, well, after all, as for, i feel, in addition, in conclusion, as a result, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 52.1666666667 128% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2281.0 1977.66487455 115% => OK
No of words: 485.0 407.700716846 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.70309278351 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69283662038 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54060948733 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 212.727598566 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492783505155 0.524837075471 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 696.6 618.680645161 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.94265232975 223% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.042509844 48.9658058833 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.619047619 100.406767564 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0952380952 20.6045352989 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.33333333333 5.45110844103 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.5376344086 126% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.242686830125 0.236089414692 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0725941683571 0.076458572812 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0809258754709 0.0737576698707 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150893554048 0.150856017488 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0541061509063 0.0645574589148 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 11.7677419355 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 58.1214874552 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.28 10.9000537634 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 86.8835125448 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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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.