Say "Yes" to Laptop and "Bye" to Books

Ayu Wulandari: Candidate Number 0021

Cita Hati Christian Senior School, Surabaya: Centre Number ID217

CIE 0500 Assignment 1: Writing to Persuade

Examination 2014/2015

Teacher Code:

Word Count: 740

Say “Yeah” to Laptops and “Bye” to Books ?

Laptops, also known as notebooks, are portable devices that are considered to be one of the most

successful invention in this world. Laptops offers thousands of useful applications that bring a lot of benefits

for everyone. It is very simple and user friendly. In this modern world full of advance technology, students

and teachers should definitely use laptops instead of books.

Laptops provide a lot of useful application which books definitely do not have. For example, writing

a thousand words essay manually by hand is very tiring and time-consuming, while typing it in Microsoft

Word is not only less time-consuming, but it also provide you tools such as Font Editing, Alignment,

Spacing, and many more to make your essay looks neat, so teachers could read your essay clearly. There are

still many more applications that laptop provides, that would definitely benefits you.

Not only students, but teachers could also use applications that is provided by laptops as a teaching

aid to to explain their teaching materials in an interesting way, which could make their students concentrate

more and less bored in class. Rather than telling students to learn by looking at their teacher’s awful

handwriting on the board and listening to them talking non-stop in a monotone voice throughout the class, it

is better for teachers to use Microsoft Power Point to make a simple yet attractive presentation; teachers

could also play videos that are related to the study topic, so both visual and auditory learners could have a

better learning experience.

Laptops can be connected to the internet while books can not. Nowadays, who could resist all of

these magnificent advantages that the internet offers?. You can search anything on...