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The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.7 - Writing for the textbook Focus 4 - Student's Book with authors Kay Sue, Jones Vaughan, Brayshaw Daniel and Beata Trapnell from Pearson Education

Question

Read the writing task and Mark’s essay. What arguments for and against does he give?

Answer

For:

  • Anyone with basic computer skills can search, share and contribute to this huge digital library.
  • Information is no longer only for the privileged.
  • Easy availability of different forms of information such as text, images, film and sound on virtually every topic imaginable.

Against:

  • There are few checks on accuracy.
  • A significant amount of online data is likely to be incorrect or biased.
  • The enormous amount of information available; it may actually be very hard to find exactly what you are looking for.