▶ Your Answer :
Some people might say that printed material
is more useful than using the internet for doing research. However, in my
opinion, utilizing the internet is a much better way to do research for the
following subsequent reasons.
To begin with, in a certain period of time,
the amount of knowledge that people can access through the internet is
overwhelmingly more than it through printed material. Since every single person
can be a producer of the information, people can gain a lot of knowledge
through the internet in a pretty short period of time. Books or article, on the
other hand, has limited producers in a single printed material. So if people
want to find more information, they should find more books or article.
For instance, when I was a university
student, I did research about companies' marketing strategy for my assignment.
At first, I was doing it with some books and I got only five examples of
companies' strategies in four hours. But I had to find at least twenty examples
of those so I decided to change my researching method to use the internet. And
I can truly tell you that this was a very wise decision. As soon as I started
to use the internet, I could get ten examples of companies just in thirty
minutes and within an hour I finished my assignment.
On top of that, unlike printed material,
the internet has videos which are extremely helpful for learning things
quickly. There is no better way for people to understand things well than
actually seeing and hearing what really happened.
For example, a study was conducted by the
ministry of education to determine whether watching video could affect a
student's understanding of one subject. There were two groups monitored. The
first group was formed of people who were given some reading materials and the
other group was consisted of people who were shown a video about the content
first and then given some article. After giving some questions about the
subject to them, the researchers concluded that the second group was much more
understanding about the overall meanings of the subject. This study
demonstrates that for knowing things better, watching some videos would be
helpful.
To sum up, through the internet, people can
access not only a plenty of information but also some videos as well. In this
regard, I think utilizing the internet would be a better choice. |