■ Direction Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. Typically, an effective response will contain a minimum of 300 words. ■ Question Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Use specific reason and examples to support your answer |
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▶ Topic :
The ability to speak well is more important
than the ability to write well. |
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Some people may asserts that speaking is most important language skill comparing to reading, listening and writing. However, I have a different opinion. When It comes to the statements that the ability to speak well is more important than the ability to write well, I strongly disgree. There are two reasons why I feel this way.
To begin with, I believe that writing is more important than speaking, because writing is the most fundamental tool of academic learning. To be specific, writing is very basic skills that improve our knowledge or enables us to share our ideas with others. For example, if there would have been no writing in the world, we cannot learn any thing, because it is impossible to build up our ancestor's knowledge to the books. Moreover, many scientific research says that writing makes people more creative and inventive. For those reasons, I think that writing is more important than speaking, especially in academic setting.
On top of that, I think that wiring is more useful than speaking in contemporary society. In my opinion, people of these days write more than they were used to. This is because there are lots of writing based services like social media, e-mail, text message and etc. For example, I noticed that lots of my university friends write at least 2 or 3 articles on their social media. One of each article is about 300 letters, so the amount of the letter they write is about 600 ~ 900 in a day and about 30,000 letters in a month. This is quite big number. Moreover, most people use free text message on a daily basis. It is safe to say that writing is more important than speaking because many people write more than speaking.
In conclusion, I certainly think that writing is more important than speaking because writing is helpful for creativity and, without writing, people cannot learn anything. Also, writing is more useful in contemporary society because there is lots of writing based services.