IELTS ESSAY SAMPLE

Sample Answer One

In this digital world, several people are found using the internet rather than reading books. It is due to the vast development in technology which is even taking more shapes into mobile platforms in the future, diminishing the book reading habits though not completely. Other than computers, devices such as mobiles or tablets are likely to be more prevalent.

To begin with, internet technology has greatly overpowered physical resources such as books. Students are nowadays found studying online through educational websites and attending classes using software such as Skype. For example, a student likes to search a particular term in Google such as robotics, genetics or others to find all the relevant information in no time.

On the other hand, books are merely used for references by today’s youngsters who like to spend more time using computers and studying with video tutorials or audio files in an e-learning environment rather than studying books.

Further to this, with the increasing advancement in the field of technology, there could likely be a drastic shift from learning on the computer to studying on mobile, and this would reduce the habit of reading books but not completely.

The craze of using mobile apps can be well seen as every child is carrying a smartphone to use apps for various learning needs. For instance, if anyone needs to use a dictionary, he uses dictionary apps that are available both offline and online.

On the whole, I believe that the internet would continue to be dominating over books but a noticeable thing is that there could be a slight shift in the devices used for accessing the internet to study, from computers to mobile applications.