Media & CommunicationAgree / DisagreeIntermediateHigh Frequency

IELTS Essay: Some people think that the increasing use of computers and mobile phones in c...

Prompt

Some people think that the increasing use of computers and mobile phones in communication has had negative effects on young people's reading and writing skills. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

#digital communication#literacy skills#young people#reading and writing#technology effects

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Band 7 → 9 — Band 7 distinguishes between casual digital communication and formal literacy skills with examples; Band 9 questions the underlying assumption that one type of writing skill must cannibalize another, and identifies how technology might enable different literacies.

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Key concepts in this essay

Literacy as multi-modal skill (digital literacy vs. traditional literacy)
Attention and deep-reading effects
Skill transfer across contexts and modalities
Selection effects and causality in educational research

Pitfalls the model essay avoids

Accepting the causal claim uncritically without questioning direction of causality (does technology weaken skills, or do lower-skill students use technology more?)
Conflating different types of writing (texts, social media) with formal academic writing without acknowledging skill transfer
Ignoring confounding variables like curriculum changes, teaching time allocation, or pre-selection bias

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