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Writing: Writing On Paper Is Bad For The Environment

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Most people think that using paper is bad for the environment, because we are wasting trees and causing harm to the environment. Most people think laptops are more suitable and less damaging to the environment. Well laptops are not better for the environment because to make laptops it takes lots of mining to get minerals and metals used to make these devices. Also there is a lot of smog produced from factories that manufacture laptops. Imagine one day where pollution is so bad and the smog is so heavy that days looks like night and you can't even take a full breath of air without a respirator mask. And the brightest thing you see through the smog isn’t the sun or the light of the moon at night, it is the bright, eye straining light coming from a laptop or any other electronic device. As you start thinking back to when paper and books were still in use and the air was clean and the world was a colorful and happy place to be. Now the earth appears gray and depressing and all people have to look forward to is the latest technology. This will be the future if people keep choosing technology over paper and pencil. handwriting should be used more than typing on a laptop. Handwriting has a lot of benefits like it improves critical thinking, also it enhances creativity, and it improves memory. After reading this I hope you have the same opinion I do that …show more content…

Many articles and studies show that handwriting improves memory. For example in the article National Pen ® it states “Handwriting notes helps retain knowledge more so than typing” also in the article Scientific American® “ In each study, however, those who wrote out their notes by hand had a stronger conceptual understanding and were more successful in applying and integrating the material than those who used took notes with their laptops.” These pieces of evidence show that writing on paper enhances memory because National Pen and Scientific American had studies that prove

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