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MID YEAR 2010: MUET WRITING 800/4 QUESTION 2

The world today is turning more to electronic communications such as the e-mail,

Facebook and Short Message System (SMS). What is your opinion of this

growing trend? Discuss. You should write at least 350 words. [60 marks]

As time goes by, the world is changing rapidly; so are its people and the technologyitself. Technology brings about a lot of amendments in people’s life. It is getting more

advanced from day to day especially when it comes to Information Technology or in

this case; electronic communications. Back then, mailing was seemingly to be one of

the most vital ways of communication especially for the world communication. In

contrast, nowadays people are more prone to communicate the easier ways; by staring

on their electronic accounts on their computers or through their iPods and sending

short messages from their iPhones or Blackberries. Why is it so?In my slight opinion,

this growing trend gives a lot of dominances in today’s life, which are helping people

to save their time and money, create borderless communication and make it easy for

people to gain prominent information.

First and foremost, the world today is turning more to electronic

communications like e-mail, Facebook and Short Message System (SMS) and other

electronic communications is because they will prevent people from wasting their

time and money. How do these work? As we all know, sending a letter to someone

will take a lot of processes and will eventually take a long time and waste a lot of

money. On the contrary, electronic communications entail only the tip of our fingers

so as an electronic device to work with. Then, what is left for us to do is just, typing!

Has that not taken a much lesser time and money? For instance, an e-mail only

requires us to turn on our laptops, open our accounts on the website and then, you can

start write your letter and send them through e-mails. In short, with the very unstable

economy nowadays, having these kinds of communications will ease everyone’s

burden especially on their daily expenses and also their valuable time will not be

wasted.

Secondly, the growing trend of electronic communications is making it

possible for a borderless communication which is vital these days. Why is it vital? A

lot of things require borderless communication; in education field, businesses and

even daily activities, especially when foreigners involved. For example, when trading

with foreigners, in order to communicate with each other, they need Skype or Yahoo

Messenger as mediums to interact and be able to do the trade at a faster rate as

compared to by using ‘snail mails’ or regular letters. Skype is the perfect example of

an electronic communication which will cut the boundary that has separated eachcountry and make communication between two different countries from around the

world possible. In conclusion, it is crucial to have these electronic communications in

today’s age of globalization as they make it easier for people around the world to

connect with each other.

Last but not least, the dominance of these electronic communications is people could

gain prominent information more efficiently than before. As there are lesser borders

between countries, the efficiency of getting much more relevant and prominent

information is higher. People will have the ability to provide and gain information

effectively through Facebook or Twitter accounts. For example, international artists

who have planned to do a world concert can inform their fans about it through their

Facebook account. Likewise, the fans also can ask just about anything to theirfavourite artists regarding the concert. Hence, this explains why people make these



electronic communications as a huge trend these days and in order to keep the trend

ongoing, each person has the responsibility to adapt with the technology itself.

In a nutshell, the growing trend of using electronic communications is inevitably

vital in people’s lives as it gives out a lot of benefits as stated in above paragraphs. So,

to avoid ourselves from not getting the chance of keeping up with the changing trends,

we have to try our best to adapt ourselves with the rapid changes. I believe that theelectronic communication trend is a trend which is very important to be followed as

the world is getting more advanced day to day.



REPORT WRITING

Compar ison o f Qual i ty of Faci l i t ies in 3 Col leges

The stimuli present two tables, Table 1 on 'Rating of College Facilities' while Table 2 is on

'Fees, Scholarships and Numbers of Registered Students'. In general, institutions that charge

higher fees tend to provide better facilities regardless of number of registered students and

scholarships offered.

According to both tables, College C which collects the highest fees per semester (RM10,000)

scored the highest ratings in all facilities except sports centre and food court. It still managed

to attract 5500 registered students although the number of scholarships offered were

extremely low (10 only).

College A charges reasonable fees of RM6000 per semester and has the highest record of

registered students (7000). It also has relatively good rating especially scoring top marks in

providing wireless connection, food court and banking facilities. Another pull factor is that it

offers the highest number of scholarships (500).

Meanwhile, students of College B rated its institution's facilities as mostly average to poor

with only the sports centre achieving a good rating. The co-curricular centre, food court and

transport received the lowest ratings. Although 100 scholarships are offered, this college

enrolled the lowest number of registered students (1000).

In conclusion, the higher the school fees, the better the facilities provided.

Submitted by Blogwalker Josephine Wong... Great effort! I would give this quite a high band

although she could have included a title and bit more data from the list of facilities. ANY

MUET EXAMINERS WOULD LIKE TO GRADE THIS PIECE AND TELL US HOW MANY

MARKS OUT OF 40 THIS STUDENT WOULD GET? (YOU CAN LEAVE ANONYMOUS

COMMENTS U KNOW... :)

Table 1 shows the rating of facilities at 3 colleges while Table 2 show their fees, scholarships

and enrolment.

Generally, the visuals indicate that the higher the fees, the better the facilities and vice versa

but this pattern has no bearing on the enrolment or scholarships offered.

College C is rated a high-end college with very good facilities (8 out of 10 facilities rated good).

Its fees are very expensive (RM 10,000 per sem.) but the survey results show its enrolment is

only moderate at 5,500 students. The college only awards 10 scholarships per year.

College B however, is a low-end college charging low fees ( RM4000 per sem.) Its facilities

are correspondingly rated average to poor and its enrolment is low (1000 students only).



By comparison, College A is the most sought-after college (7000 students) with average to

good facilities (all facilities rated as average and above) charging reasonable fees (RM6000

per sem). It also offers the highest no. of scholarships (500).

To conclude, students are attracted to colleges that charge not-so-expensive fees but providereasonably good facilities and has good scholarship offers.

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