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Fewer schools require school children to learn and improve their handwriting skills. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages of this trend?

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Lesser number of
schools
 allows
school
 children to learn and develop their
handwritting
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handwriting
skills
.
This
 essay believes that the demerits
outweighs
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 the merits as
lesser
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a lesser
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 number of children will be able to read and write
in
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their
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 later age.
Firstly
, it has been observed that most
schools
 no longer aim at ensuring that pupils and
students
 are sound in their
writting
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writing
skills
, as they concentrate mainly on just teaching them randomly, without putting full efforts to ensure that their
students
 are sound in their
writting
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writing
skills
.
This
 tends to produce
students
 who can not write and read even later years.
For instance
, in some states in Nigeria ,it has been observed that even high
school
graduates
 cannot write and read effectively, as
this
 is the result of bad teaching background
from
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 the
school
 they attended.
Moreover
, many
schools
 now base their teachings on extra curriculum activities. Activities
such
 as music class, drama classes, excursion, nutrition class and so on, forgetting the basic teachings which should be given to these children ,starting from guiding and teaching them how to develop their
writting
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writing
skills
. All these
leads
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 to
production
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 of
half baked
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school
graduates
 who can not defend themselves outside. A plain example is the current state of the country's organisation where we have
graduates
 who can not defend their certificates. In conclusion, it has been observed that majority of
schools
 are no longer interested in developing their
students
 hand
writting
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writing
skills
.
This
 has led to
graduates
 who can not write and read , and
also
graduates
 who can not defend their gotten
certificate
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certificates
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, leading to a bad state of the country.

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Answer the 'Advantages and Disadvantages' topic

IELTS advantages and disadvantages questions normally give you a statement and ask you to comment on the advantages and disadvantages of that statement.

Answer structure for the type of essay

  • Introduction
  • Body paragraph 1 – advantages
  • Body paragraph 2 – disadvantages
  • Conclusion

Examples to start your body paragraph:

  • The main advantage is...
  • The disadvantage of this...
  • The main benefit...
  • Despite these advantages...
  • One possible drawback...

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