In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge.
Whether imagination weighs more than knowledge in professional and academic fields has been controversial. It seems obvious that imagination may lead to creativity, which subsequently leads to innovation. It is true that imagination can lay a solid foundation for inventions, I mostly agree that knowledge and experience bears more importance than imagination for two reasons.
To concede, imagination is the source of innovations. Specifically, most inventions in history were based on imagination that was outside of common sense and knowledge. For instance, in 1980s, making connections to people from other regions or doing work at home was hardly conceivable. However, due to the invention of computer and internet, it became possible, or even natural, to contact with others without physical barriers and work online at one’s home. If scientists and entrepreneurs have primarily focused on the accumulated knowledge from the past, it should have been impossible to make such innovations that entirely changed our daily lives. In reality, they were armed with imagination and creativity to come up with new idea, which help them make those groundbreaking innovations. This example presents that it is imagination that allows people to make significant advancements in society.
However, in most cases, knowledge forms the basis of imagination. If seldom knowledge about the world exists, imagination would hardly occur. This is especially true in the field of science. Albert Einstein, who has been regarded as a highly creative and intellectual individual, was able to come up with the theory of relativity via his study of Lorentz’ transformation and observation of characteristics of light. That is, he did not come up with this remarkable new idea by his own thought. Furthermore, quantum mechanics, a theory that has been proposed by several scientists such as Schrodinger, has its foundation on Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. The theory was basically the expansion and refinement of this principle and had wide applications on manufacturing semiconductor and electronic devices like computer hardware. Many people view the theory as crucial for modern technologies and assume that it was the byproduct of creativity. However, by inspecting how the theory came into existence, it is actually the contrary; it was created by well-organized and accumulated knowledge. These examples present that knowledge plays a huge role on imagination. Thus, in the absence of knowledge, imagination can do little.
Moreover, in most fields, knowledge yield more efficiency than imagination. Specifically, having more knowledge and experience on one’s field enables he or she to organize and structure his or her task that costs the minimum effort and time. On the other hand, having abundant imagination cannot guarantee whether someone can certainly create an innovation that leads to significant profits; in fact, this case is quite rare. For instance, tasks given in the field of accounting or finance requires workers to efficiently organize and calculate data about equity, balance, and assets. They do not require one to come up with some whole new ideas about completing the tasks. Rather, deep knowledge and insight about the field plays the main role in finishing work most effectively. This instance shows that knowledge can have a more desirable result than imagination.
In conclusion, it is true that imagination has contributed people to make numerous inventions that have changed our society significantly. However, since imagination is based on knowledge, which also helps people to work efficiently, knowledge plays a more important role in most professions and academic fields than imagination.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 183, Rule ID: IN_1990s[1]
Message: The article is probably missing here: 'in the 1980s'.
Suggestion: in the 1980s
...mmon sense and knowledge. For instance, in 1980s, making connections to people from othe...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, thus, well, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, such as, in most cases, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 36.0 12.9106741573 279% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3160.0 2235.4752809 141% => OK
No of words: 568.0 442.535393258 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.56338028169 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.88187981987 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.19573049771 2.79657885939 114% => OK
Unique words: 292.0 215.323595506 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514084507042 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 1003.5 704.065955056 143% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 6.24550561798 272% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 12.0 4.38483146067 274% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.8935857454 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.333333333 118.986275619 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9333333333 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.63333333333 5.21951772744 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.3828482421 0.243740707755 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101080532966 0.0831039109588 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.128578536279 0.0758088955206 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.264540010831 0.150359130593 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.153147346583 0.0667264976115 230% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.28 48.8420337079 74% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.97 12.1639044944 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 155.0 100.480337079 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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