Thursday, 4 April 2013

TOEFL_writing practice : the help of technology


여전히 한시간이 걸린다. 흠.. 안되는데..370자를 썼다. 

Q. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? With the help of technologystudents nowadays can learn more information and learn it more quickly. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 

3:31- 4:31

There are two sides to everything. It goes through technology as well.  While some people claim that they lost a sort of close connection between people such as neighbors because of replacing much of their daily life to technology, some are thankful to the cell-phones and computer devices which connected them to people who live in the distance. However, I think that as long as we use it in a proper manner, we can gain much more benefits of what we are about to do. Also, our life would be abundant with the help of technology, which is less limited by either places or time and does a lot of works at a high rate.

To begin with, people can share information and knowledge they have with students who are living throughout the world because technology is not limited by places where people are. One of famous website cousera.org can be the good example of this case. Whoever wants to gain qualified lectures from prestige universities in the world can feel free to access to the website and can take classes as much as they want for nothing. Moreover, distance learning technology enabled student to discuss diverse issues of society on each place as if they are in class. They are available to exchange their thoughts and opinions on the web.

On the top of that, students can save their time with the help of technology. Looking back at my childhood, finding materials and making notes had taken a long time until it all was done. However, nowadays, students use a computer and advanced software to do their researches and assignments. It reduce much of time of the work just that had been wasted. We can get a prompt response as soon as we put data into the analysis program. Even the data was gathered by on-line poll.

Due to the advantages of technology mentioned above, we can learn more information and even faster. Although it is dangerous for us to rely on technology too much, if we control the usage of the technology and be careful to be addicted to some technologies, it would bring more benefits rather than the disadvantages of technology into our life. 

* 초래하다 / 야기하다
causebring aboutlead toresult in (좋지 않은 일을) (formal) give rise to

* 유발하다 
(흥미 등을) arousecausetriggerlead togive rise toset offtouch off induce

* 발생하다
(사건 등이) occurhappenarisecome abouttake place (전쟁·질병 등이) break out (효력 등이) take effect, (빛, 생산) generate


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