CreateDebate



Welcome to CreateDebate!

CreateDebate is a social tool that democratizes the decision-making process through online debate. Join Now!
  • Find a debate you care about.
  • Read arguments and vote the best up and the worst down.
  • Earn points and become a thought leader!

To learn more, check out the FAQ or Tour.



Be Yourself

Your profile reflects your reputation, it will build itself as you create new debates, write arguments and form new relationships.

Make it even more personal by adding your own picture and updating your basics.


Twitter
Twitter addict? Follow us and be the first to find out when debates become popular!


pic
Report This User
Permanent Delete

Allies
View All
None

Enemies
View All
None

Hostiles
View All
None

RSS Evonneoh

Reward Points:2
Efficiency: Efficiency is a measure of the effectiveness of your arguments. It is the number of up votes divided by the total number of votes you have (percentage of votes that are positive).

Choose your words carefully so your efficiency score will remain high.
100%
Arguments:2
Debates:0
meter
Efficiency Monitor
Online:


Joined:
2 most recent arguments.
2 points

Aren't we supposed to write about one point only? Or around three points?

--

Reading is an activity which many of us might enjoy. It can be a form of relaxation to some but to others, they may simply just hate reading. They probably find it boring. They’d rather play video games, go out for sports or perhaps, do other things which they think are more worth their time of doing. But I do not agree so.

Reading to me is something which helps me take off all my troubles and worries which I have at that moment in time when I am really engrossed in the book itself. A good book can do that; a good book can somehow divert my attention away from everything else and make me focus and concentrate on just the content of the book. I am not sure with the rest of the people out there, but I know that there will be at least a small group of people existing in this world who will agree with me – a good book can do all those. A good book can also somehow or rather catch my attention and as I go along reading it, the book puts me in a state of mind which just seems like me being inside the story or instead, me being one of the characters that is portrayed within the story itself; me being put into the shoes of others who are in the story also. And that is what a good book can do to me – make me so interested in it that I can no longer catch hold of what is happening around me except the storyline of the book.

Hence, I agree that reading is important for teenagers, because it helps them to concentrate (probably only with a good book like I do but still, try to read a variety of types of books), thus they can also make good use of this skill by putting it into daily purposes, such as being able to concentrate without much effort on things that they want to do (eg. studying) without having being distracted so easily and especially so too when they are teenagers, because teenagers do a lot of studying and if one is not able to concentrate on things that one wants to do, one’s mind will keep on wandering off and one’s studies will be affected, since in the end nothing will ever seem to get into one’s brain.

1 point

I agree with what Tingpeng has said about reading in his argument.

Firstly about the "sense of Grammar"; it sounds kind of weird but it actually makes sense too, seriously. Like how he elaborated on it, "for people who read often/a lot, they find that when there is a sentence-structure error, they tend to notice it; even if they can't tell you why, they do find that it feels weird. This really saves time since you can do editing while you write, or when you are checking the flow of what you have written". If someone is able to do this, it also shows that he/she has make it to a higher level of English, as this "skill" does not come easily. It has to be developed through practice (which in this case -- through reading).

Secondly, he moved on to talk about how reading helps to improve our vocabulary and inference. Like he said, when one comes across a particular word more often, one would eventually perfect one's judgment when inferring, without having to go through the troublesome routine of checking the dictionary when one reads and comes across a word that one does not recognize. Also, after some time of reading, after getting the meanings of the words right, instead of checking the dictionary, one tends to make inferences within seconds, and this happens so automatically, and also so often that one does not even realize it.

Lastly, he mentioned that reading also potentially makes our writings more interesting. This is true, especially so when one reads about stories and yes, one gathers the "inspiration" to write a plot of a story and this usually comes from experiences, if not somewhere that one has read or rather come across before. And well "then, as you build up the lot of styles of writing and plots/scenes, you start developing original ones (be it that you take a bit of everything, or that you adapt from something very interesting)".

Hence, I agree with Tingpeng's argument.

Evonneoh has not yet created any debates.

About Me


I am probably a good person but I haven't taken the time to fill out my profile, so you'll never know!


Want an easy way to create new debates about cool web pages? Click Here