There has been much discussion revolving around the issue of whether an understanding of the main concepts is more important than to learn definite facts or not. In my opinion, knowledge of the basic ideas and concepts is more valuable for mastering yourself in the particular subject. I will explain my position providing the examples to support my point of view.
First of all, the core concepts can guide you through the subject’s material. I understood the value of this principle when I was learning Pharmacology. The most challenging part of the subject was to memorise all of the pharmacological groups because each group contains various medicines differed by a lot of parameters. Understanding the main feature of the group helped me to apply these basic fundamental ideas while I was studying a particular drug of this group. After that, it was really easy to understand group’s interrelations and to build a whole picture of the subject.
Second, basic principles learned from the example of one subject can be used in other fields of study. For example, fundamental principles of mathematics can be applied in everyday life. You don’t need to be excellent in math to use mathematical equations in your research paper, you just need to understand the main principle of mathematical ideas such us logarithm, sum or others.
Finally, understanding the main ideas is a key for student’s future development. I believe that enormous quantity of information is passed through our mind during the university and it is completely impossible to memorize all of it. Therefore, core concepts should be remembered by students as a solid background from which easier to start to revise previous knowledge or learn further in the future.
In the conclusion, I want to say that understanding ideas and concepts is a wonderful strategy for learning a subject. I hope that the examples given above have sufficiently expressed my opinion.
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- TPO-07 - Independent Writing Task 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. 76
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 216, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...ing part of the subject was to memorise all of the pharmacological groups because each gro...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, if, really, second, so, therefore, while, as to, for example, first of all, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 43.0788530466 67% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 52.1666666667 94% => 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: 1648.0 1977.66487455 83% => OK
No of words: 316.0 407.700716846 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21518987342 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21620550194 4.48103885553 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17797156764 2.67179642975 119% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 212.727598566 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.572784810127 0.524837075471 109% => OK
syllable_count: 513.0 618.680645161 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.146359984 48.9658058833 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.0 100.406767564 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.75 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5625 5.45110844103 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.216301171283 0.236089414692 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0723110013709 0.076458572812 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0569932078207 0.0737576698707 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12796756783 0.150856017488 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.047915208401 0.0645574589148 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 11.7677419355 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 10.9000537634 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 86.8835125448 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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