Technology & ScienceAdvantages & DisadvantagesIntermediateMedium Frequency

IELTS Essay: The Internet and Books

Prompt

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

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Band 7 → 9 — Band 7 weighs access against drawbacks of online information; Band 9 addresses whether internet knowledge is genuinely more useful (vs. just abundant) and explores the need for new literacy skills and institutions.

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Key concepts in this essay

accessibility vs. reliability
information overload and curation
digital divide and equity
permanence and preservation
epistemological challenges of distributed knowledge

Pitfalls the model essay avoids

Assuming digital accessibility automatically equals better knowledge distribution without addressing digital divides
Overlooking the loss of permanence, verification, and curation that books provided
Ignoring information quality, misinformation, and the burden of filtering online content

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