DISCUSSION

Text: DISCUSSION

Structure: Issue - Arguments for (+) - Arguments against (-) - Conclusion

 The Pros and Cons of Video Games

Nowadays, the video games industry is developing rapidly. It becomes a multibillion dollar industry. Video games have become an important part not only in the children’s life but also the adults’. Nevertheless, there is an argument wheter video games bring good or bad influences on children.

People who have a pro argument claim that video games give a lot of benefits. Playing video games is a good way to kill children’s boredom. It can refresh the children’s mind after a tiring school day. Moreover, they also argue that video games can trigger children to be more creative because the games provide challenging ways to win. In other words, they believe that the video games can actually sharpen a human’s brain.

Conversely, some people believe that video games make children lazy. That argues that playing video games is addictive. Consequently, most of the children prefer playing video games to studying. These children find it hard to concentrate on their study because they always think about how to spend more time playing video games. In fact, there are also some children who skip their extracurricular lessons, just because they want to play video games. In addition, most of the video games often expose too much violence. Two years ago in USA, for example, a student shot his teacher and some of his friends. Newspapers said that the boy was deeply influenced by the action in the video games he used to play with.

It is obvious that video games have more disadvantages than advantages. Therefore, parents should be very careful in selecting the appropriate games for their children.

Notes

Issue : paragraph 1

Arguments-for / Positive arguments : paragraph 2

Arguments-against / Negative arguments : paragraph 3

Conclusion / Recommendation : paragraph 4

A Discussion is a piece of writing that explores the pros and cons or the advantages and disadvantages of an issue to allow the readers to reach a logical conclusion. A balanced view of the writer is reflected throughout the writing. The communicative purpose of a Discussion is to present arguments / opinions / information from different viewpoints.