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Growing up, I often heard from my parents that I should grow read and write abilities, lest I can't exactly express my opinion. - I am sure many people have similar experience. However, as I grown older, I realize that the world became changed and my parents was wrong; this being the case, I also want to argue that there are lots of other important abilities than read and write skills. First, nowadays, listening to other's opinions and speaking our ideas is more important than reading and writing. In addition, reading and writing is less important because of developing of medias.
To start, today the communicate abilities have more advantages than read and write skills. At first glance, it may seem that reading and writing is also important in communicating because people express their opinions and understand others' expression by writing and reading. However, it is widely accepted view that other communicate skills, such as speaking, are more important in nowadays; I agree this view from personal experience. For example, my second year of college comes to mind. In that year, I had a big presentation as a teamwork assignment. So, we were take one person who speaks our presentation a front of other students. I wanted to express that because I felt that I was good at writing. However, my friend, who is good at speaking, was expresses our ideas. Therefore, communication skills such as speaking are more important than writing and reading in my ages.
In addition, there are lots of necessary medias that make useless to read and write. It cannot be said that reading and writing is unimportant theseday. However, what is true is that developing of media affects growing read and write abilities. For example, I have read an article about survey of the Korean Times. In the survey, people were asked what is the most useful ability in today. Of those who answered 76% of people said that using mass media skills. When asked to explain, they started that they felt using new media is important because today, there are lots of instruments such as iPad. This example demonstrates reading and writing skills is not important than in the past.
To conclude, read and write abilities thought of as important skills. However, I want to argue that there are lots of more important things such as speaking. |