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In the past, knowledge was contained in books. Nowadays, knowledge is uploaded to the internet. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

#books #internet #outweigh
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 rate defines the number of literate
people
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 who can contribute to the development of the economy.
Knowledge
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 is one of the key factors that
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 a vital role in the development of any country. There are various ways of gaining
knowledge
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 either through
books
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, the
internet
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 or personal experiences.
This
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 essay speaks partially about the importance of
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 gained from
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 and the
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 gained from the source of the
internet
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. Some
people
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 believe that
knowledge
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 gained from
books
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 can be preserved for long years.
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, many old aged
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 desired to pass-on
books
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 to their grand-
childerns
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children
. These
books
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 were considered priceless because of the
knowledge
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 that was passed from one generation to another.
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, there were some drawbacks to these old fashioned
books
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. They require the reader to be knowledgeable, in a way to read the book the user should know how to read a book, which became a hindrance to a few groups of society in the past because they were illiterate. Another instance, getting the accurate book was a difficult and
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time-consuming
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 task for the reader
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in order
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in order
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 to receive the accurate and required information. The other
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 which contributed to the disadvantage of reading
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was
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 its unavailability.
On the other hand
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, few
people
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 believe that in the age of computers,
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knowledge
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 of the
internet
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 is crucial. With the help of the
internet
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, anyone, at any point
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 time, from anywhere in the world who wishes to gain
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 can access it very easily. The
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 provides all sorts of information a person asks for. A recent example displays that a
12 year old
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12-year-old
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 can become a software coder with the help of
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 gained from the
internet
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. The
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in
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 today's world acts as an ocean of
knowledge
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, for one who deserves to know what they want to know. To conclude, during the old times,
people
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 had
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 little source of
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, but now with the help of the
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people
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 can excel in the desired field of study without any drawbacks.
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    • Sentence 1 - Background statement
    • Sentence 2 - Detailed background statement
    • Sentence 3 - Thesis
    • Sentence 4 - Outline sentence
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    • Sentence 1 - Topic sentence
    • Sentence 2 - Example
    • Sentence 3 - Discussion
    • Sentence 4 - Conclusion
  • Paragraph 3 - Second supporting paragraph
    • Sentence 1 - Topic sentence
    • Sentence 2 - Example
    • Sentence 3 - Discussion
    • Sentence 4 - Conclusion
  • Paragraph 4 - Conclusion
    • Sentence 1 - Summary
    • Sentence 2 - Restatement of thesis
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Digital literacy
  • E-learning
  • Virtual libraries
  • Cyberspace
  • Search engine literacy
  • Critical evaluation skills
  • Open-source information
  • Data mining
  • Intellectual property
  • Digital preservation
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