■ 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

When students enter the elementary school, they start to study reading and writing at first. Some people might say that concentrating on reading and writing is no longer important in the present society in the aspect of increasing time to receive some information. However, in my opinion, importance of reading and writing is more crucial in fully understating knowledge. In this essay, I will clearly show and develop two reasons to support my idea.

To begin with, advanced technology encourages people to use their reading and writing abilities in terms of creating a specific circumstance in which people have to read and write. Since many developed devices for people’s convenience contain reading and writing materials, people have to improve and use their reading and writing skills in order to meet the equipments’ environment. Text massage is good example to illustrate this point. In the present, many people utilize cellular phone, and the need for text massages is growing. The number of using text massages is increasing because of improved booking service in train, bus and even air line. Many transportation companies send customers text massages including reservation information, and customers can book tickets by using text massages. Therefore, people should read and write the massages to utilize present convenient technology.

In addition, reading and writing skill is necessary to live in current society based on the Internet providing huge information. Now, if it were not for the Internet, people would suffer many difficulties in daily life. Since internet materials are mostly composed of reading and writing resources, people have to improve these skills. For example, in the past, I just asked answer to my parents or teachers, whenever I had some questions. I did not need to use reading and writing skills, because solving the problems by conversation. However, after the Internet develops, I can learn about something by myself and have to classify lots of information gathered from reading and writing materials. Thus, it is important for people to enhance reading and writing abilities in the present.

To summarize, I strongly believe that the necessity of reading and writing is more increasing than in the past: adapting to circumstance and using the Internet more efficiently. Accordingly, people should try to raise their reading and writing ability.