It has been said, “Not everything that is learned is contained in
books.” Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience
with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source
is more important? Why?
Books can teach people a lot of important aspects of life. However, personally, I think that expertise obtained from experience is more significant than the one that acquired books. I feel this way for two main reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
First of all, books often present only general information, which can help learners to understand basics of a topic but not pivotal details. My personal experience is a compelling example of this. I am a pharmacy technician and before I applied for this position, I had read a lot about pharmaceutical management. In this way, I have learned that sometimes insurance companies reject paying for prescriptions of patients, and so employees of retail pharmacies have to resolve such problems. Although I thought that I was preparing well for my future job, at the very first day at the workplace I realized that I did not know how to exactly process claims to insurance companies in a computer system. In fact, it took me six months to get to know how to solve each type of rejections and satisfy my customers. That is why I think that deep knowledge can be obtained only with a real experience.
Secondly, writers are limited by their editors and are allowed to include only a certain number of pages in their books, and therefore, even if they want to fit a myriad of specific information in their works, they cannot exceed the requested amount. For instance, a friend of mine is a journalist and he crafts reportages for a local newspaper. Recently he covered a murder that happened in our small town. I read his article and have found it truly fascinating and informative. However, a few days ago we have talked over a cup of coffee and he mentioned that he has had to drop a lot of details about the crime because his supervisor considered his story unreasonably long. In this way, residents who did not investigate the case themselves, could not learn about crucial circumstances of the murder from the reportage.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that true knowledge could be acquired only from real experience but not from written sources. This is because writers superficially describe topics in their books, and because they often cannot fit all they want to say in an article.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, for instance, i feel, i think, in conclusion, in fact, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 43.0788530466 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 52.1666666667 94% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1870.0 1977.66487455 95% => OK
No of words: 388.0 407.700716846 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81958762887 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43821085614 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85577710172 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 212.727598566 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.572164948454 0.524837075471 109% => OK
syllable_count: 589.5 618.680645161 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.8691831095 48.9658058833 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.888888889 100.406767564 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5555555556 20.6045352989 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.27777777778 5.45110844103 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0954858218191 0.236089414692 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0299408855658 0.076458572812 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0419649469095 0.0737576698707 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0692435931697 0.150856017488 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0345982009801 0.0645574589148 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 11.7677419355 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 10.9000537634 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 86.8835125448 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => 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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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