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Cambridge English 4
IELTS Writing Task 2
Topic:
Compare the advantages and disadvantages of three of the following as media for communicating information. State which you consider to be the most effective.
Comics/books/radio/television/film/theater
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
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This essay will compare the merits of books, radio and television as media for communicating information and explain why they are effective in different ways.
Books for our eyes. Although we do not always think of books as media for communicating information, they have the same power to entertain and educate us that television, radio, the Internet, and movies have. Just like other forms of media, books effectively communicate to us the norms and values of our society, and affect our thinking and our world-views, even though we may not always realize just how they do this. Nowadays, through the use of technology, books can be mass marketed and widely distributed just like any other form of media.
Radio for our ears. Because of its wide coverage, relatively low unit cost, ability to reach those who are literate and illiterate alike, it has proved to be an effective media for communicating information. Although it is non-visual media, it can function in real time and harness the audience to use their own imagination. Although its codes are purely auditory, consisting as they do only of speech, music and sounds, no other media has this communicating power of stimulating and developing the abstract thinking of its audience and enriching and activating listeners’ imagination.
Television for our eyes and ears. Television must be considered to be the most effective media for communicating information by offering multi-sensory appeal. It has visual elements like books and audio elements like radio, but it has much more dynamic movement like no other. It can communicate information for great numbers of people nationally and internationally with satellites and other technologies. Since replacing radio as the most popular mass media in the 1950s, television has played such an integral role in modern life that for us it is difficult to imagine being without it. Today, as the Internet is changing the way we watch television, this media will still solidify its position as one of the most important inventions of the 20th century.
In conclusion, books, radio and television are effective tools for communicating information in different ways and to varying degrees, depending on how we see them.
