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Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

Well, I mean, you kinda have to read in order to be successful in life. Unless of course you are wealthy enough to have someone read for you. In that case, it's not that important. But for the most part, it is and should be emphasized in public schools.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: It's important

How can you have someone read for you??!! When you read, you are the one gaining knowledge! If you pay someone to read for you, then what is the point? Also, how can you say reading "in that case" "would not be important"? It is Important(with a CAPITAL I) for anyone and everyone to read. Reading should be treated as a form of self-upgrade, and not something you don't want to do!
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its not important

Tell me this, how do blind people read? Thank you. Some people may feel that reading is not important. Some would rather be deadbeats in life than to read and become educated. That is up to them. You can't force anyone to read.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

Tell me this, how do blind people read?Palinin2040, meet braille. Thank you. You're welcome. You can't force anyone to read.Where did that come from? Who was talking about forced reading camps?
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its not important

You always take my sarcasm to new dimensions, don't you?---------Okay, you want to play it that way, then so be it. :)-------Since you didn't define reading, I define it as the interpretation of written language through the use of vision. According to this definition, blind people cannot read. End of story. Thank you.-----------That came from my head. You can't force a religion down someone's throat, you can't force gays to be straight, and so on. Stop taking my sarcasm to new dimensions. :)
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I love to read. I'm currently reading the fourth "Sookie Stackhouse" novel, "Wuthering Heights," "The Chocolate War," and... I think that's all. On my list of books to read next are "Oliver Twist," "Of Mice and Men," "Fallen Angels," and "Pride and Prejudice."
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I find reading to be a very important aspect of my life, I try and pick up a book at least once a week. The truth is that in this day and age teenager and even adults find themselves wanting to watch the movie rather than read the book.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

That would be stereo-typing, for I myself would prefer to read the book than watch the movie.(DIGRESS ALERT) When you read the book, you get so much more than watching the movie.For one, there is more in the plot of the book than the movie (Otherwise, the movie would be at least 4-6 hours long).And then, there is what you can pick-up(*read other arguments) from reading.Although watching the movie can help in getting the pronunciation right (again, the America English VS British English issue), you may not really understand every part, because there are always thing cut out/left out. Furthermore, the benefits of watching a movie versus reading the book usually results in the case that reading would emerge victorious (O.o).Therefore, I feel that you are stereo-typing when you say "The truth is that in this day and age teenager and even adults find themselves wanting to watch the movie rather than read the book.", and I myself is proof.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

To me, i think reading is important. Reading broadens one's imagination and creativity. we learn more than what is inside our textbook and a great variety of vocabulary. Reading also improve our language skills especially grammar. it also help us find out about what people in the other country are doing and their culture. Reading helps us understand the world and also keep us updated of what is happening around the world. Reading may also change one person's attitude example Bible books. it allows the person to think positively and happier. most important to me, reading can provide me many different good quotes that benefit a lot in my compositions.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I agree with Xinye’s point of view. Reading really broadens our imagination, creativity and also improves our language skills. With good imagination, writing essay would be easier for us. While having good language skills and grammar can help us speak in perfect English. Therefore, I agree with Xinye that reading is important for teenagers.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I feel that reading is important to teenagers as reading benefit teenagers in many ways. One of the ways is that reading helps teenagers to broaden his/her horizons. This is very useful as teenagers get to apply it in their studies and in their daily lives. How exactly is this applicable in their studies? They can use their wide range of knowledge in their school work like essays to make it unique and with great depth. The wide range of knowledge can also help them understand things that are happening in their daily lives. Reading also exposes teenagers into different situations that they may face in their later life. Immersing in the different situations, teenagers get to learn how to resolve the problems and this will help them greatly if they were to face such situations in life. Besides, reading also sends teenagers thinking and this can develop his/her critical thinking skills. Reading can also be a great form of entertainment as it not only relaxes the mind but also helps to build up the vocabulary of teenagers. Nowadays, most teenagers have little vocabulary and reading can surely help them in building his/her vocabulary. With more vocabulary, teenagers are able to apply the vocabulary in their essays and thus improving their essays. Today, most teenagers can be seen playing with their PSP, Nintendo DS and phones. These games have little benefit to them but one thing that I agree with is that these electronic devices can help the teenagers to relax. However, if a book can relax your mind and also add on you vocabulary and knowledge do you not feel that a book is a better choice for relaxation?  Therefore, I strongly agree that reading is important to today’s teenagers.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I agree with Cherie that Reading exposes teenagers into different situations that they may face in their later life. Teenagers get to learn how to resolve the problems if they were to face such situations in life. Besides, reading would also send teenagers thinking and this can develop his/her critical thinking skills. Reading can also be a great form of entertainment as it not only relaxes the mind but also helps to build up the vocabulary of teenagers. Although I disagree that teenagers nowadays have little vocabulary skills, I have to agree that reading would help them in building his/her vocabulary.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: It's important

1st thing I want to say is not quite relevant: Important was spelled wrongly ("Its imporatnt")...2nd thing is that, wow... everyone wrote such long arguments....For this topic, before I start, I must say that for me myself, I have always taken reading as something to do during leisure time - When you have nothing to do, why not start reading? Or even when you want to relax, only having a book on your mind, having only the plot to worry about, it kinds of takes you away from the world... so getting a comfortable place and just focusing on reading the good book can be relaxing as well.Now, first and foremost, reading helps build a sixth/seventh sense - what I call the sense of Grammar. 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.Moving on, reading also help us to improve not only our vocabulary, but also, our inference. (If you don't understand why, here it is: when you read and you come to a word you don't recognize, after some time of reading, instead of checking the dictionary[which SO ruins the suspense in the plot], you tend to make inferences within seconds, and this happens so automatically, and also so often right, that you don't realize. Getting the meanings right may take some time, but as you come across the words more, you will eventually perfect your judgment when inferring.)Finally, reading also potentially make our writings more interesting. Recall all the plots you have been writing all these years. You didn't just think of them over lunch - you read it somewhere, and you remembered the style and plot. Then, you build your interest in one/some of these genres, and read more of them. 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).Bottom line, reading is important as it greatly improves the quality of their writing, ability to infer.That is how important reading is - important enough for you to start scavenging for books no matter the age.EDIT: I want to recommend a book: "The secret life of bees" It is about racism in Early America, love, religion, and much much more.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

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.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I agree with what ting peng had said about having the sense of grammar and improving our vocabulary. I think that many people also have this kind of sense. It is like some sort of feeling that when you know that something is wrong but you just cannot really explain it. Even me, myself had this kind of feeling. This kind of feeling is rather confusing as somethime you cannot really rely on it. Next, i also agree with that reading helps in improving vocabulary. In books, it is quite impossible for you to really know all the meaning of the words in the book but when you keep on reading, the author will like somehow explain what the word means by using the story to explain. next time, if you ever cross the same word, you may not be able to really explain it very clearly but you somehow still knows what the word mean.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

How important is reading to today's teenagers?Reading is a very good relaxation and enjoyment. People visit quiet beaches or private swimming pools just to relax and read a book or two. Reading also helps to kill time when we have a long journey to travel or when we are feeling bored. When you ask for advices on how to improve English, mostly you would get , “ Read more books to improve your vocabulary, etc.” Hence, I feel that reading is very important to today’s teenagers.To start with, reading has different definitions. There are people who read without serious thinking or really immerse themselves in the book. They may have words that they do not know the meaning but instead of checking it in a dictionary and remembering them by heart, they have the don’t- care attitude and just ignore the words. Furthermore, I doubt that anyone would not have any word that they do not understand in books, especially novels. These days, novels have their story lines mostly in England, London, in those western countries. These people have a different culture from the Asians and hence we may not understand what they meant. More importantly, The authors have a unique way of writing books of romance, mysteries, which have a great difference from what we encounters in Singapore. The actual purpose of reading is to increase our knowledge as well as to revise on what our brain had absorb but forgotten. People who reads a lot does not mean that his or her has good vocabulary skills.Above all, books have been greatly replaced by electronics technology, such as iPod, hand phones which is currently becoming better in design and functions, PSP, Nintendo DS, computers, and all the devices that can be used to communicate or play games. teenagers should spend their time more meaningfully by reading instead of doing things that would not do them any good instead of gaining more knowledge by reading. In the past, people would compare what books they own but in this modern society, teenagers would compare their hand phone models, which is irrelevant to their studies. Finally, reading would improve our oral skills and our written paper. By reading more books, the use of language would greatly differ and we would speak more fluent English. The good written paper actually needs creativity and fluent language which allows people to understand deeply what the writer is trying to express him ore herself. Therefore, I conclude that reading can affect one’s live so it is important for teenagers to pick up this habit of reading and know the importance of it.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I agree with Jasmine because reading does help one relax and kill time and while you are doing that, you take in some knowledge by reading instead of wasting your time by playing video games, computer or watch television and not gaining anything useful. i also agree with her as reading books helps to improve your vocabulary as there might be some good phrases in the book which you can learn from. Reading also does improve your oral skills especially when you read aloud. It can help you read more fluently. Therefore, i agree with Jasmine.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

Reading has been a cultivation for many scholars and has great significance in ading the civilisation of mankind. Reading has always been a cornerstone in whichever society, whatsoever ideologies, and regarless of the age we are living in. This is credited to reading materials as important pieces of valuable informations that channels into mass media.For instance, the newspapers we are reading everday is an exemplary in manifesting the significance of reading. Reading allow us to gain new knowledge, and to be better equipped with the things that is happening around us. In teenagers's context, reading stands at an even more decisive position. Our teenage years is a period when, as students, have to make use of materials, perpetually exploiting the benefits of reading, in order to train us to be more cognitive. This fact is also true in today's context, when reading comes in many variety; such as internet: Blogs, Forums,Reviews etc.Therefore, i conclude the that reading is imperative to today's teenager. le khang taiscss 2e5
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I agree that reading allow us to gain new knowledge, and to be better equipped with the things that is happening around us. Newspapers update us with latest information about what is going on in the world or the nation. For example, we would not have known about the current H1N1 pandemic flu had we not read the newspapers.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

Reading helps in mental development and is known to stimulate the muscles of the eyes. Reading is an activity that involves greater levels of concentration and adds to the conversational skills of the reader. It is an indulgence that enhances the knowledge acquired, consistently. Through reading, readers can get to know and come across new words and phrases which helps to improves their creativity and vocabulary skills. These vocabulary come in handy in our everyday conversation too. Teenagers nowadays might think that reading is not as important with other substitution for the benefits of reading such as dictionary etc. Whereas,i think that reading is the most basic step to broadening you vocabulary skills. therefore, reading is important to today's teenager.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

It's important. Most teenagers are setting down books and spending more time in the Internet then ever. We do learn from the Internet but books are great things. The reason teenagers are in the Internet so much is because they can play on line, communicate on line, and watch movies on line.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I think that reading is important becoz many teenagers nowadays are detached from the current happenings due to the lessen of reading time.Reading for teenagers helps them alot as they can understand the world they live in,as well as it can improve their language and communication skill ,which make them more proficient in the 21th century,where communication between people is the key to success.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its not important

I agree with what rui en had said. Reading will help the teenagers by improving their language, communication skills and undersatnd more about the world they live in and this will improve the relationship better one another and will also help the teenagers greatly as they will need all this skills when they start to work. Improving communication skills can allow teenagers to able to engage a conversation with others well and thus will aloow the teenagers to know the other person more. Improving language can allow teenagers to speak better with others and will allow teenagers not to speak anything that will offend other people.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: It's important

Todays teenagers do not read as many books as a teenager even 10 or 20 years back used to. Why is it so? Is it because other forms of communication, learning and entertainment have taken over the ever popular "book" or is there some other reason? What do you think?I think that reading is important to teenagers. Reading is an important skill that all parents need to encourage their children to master. A person who can read, and read well, is more likely to graduate from college; get a higher paying job; experience the joys of learning new things; and enjoy the stress-reducing entertainment of a good book. Reading also broadens a teenager's language which would be useful in school and when communicating with people in other parts of the world.Teenagers nowadays feels that books are boring because of latest technology such as computer games, television programmes, which are already enough to entertain or to spend their free time. Books are now replaced with movies, where teenagers feel more relaxed watching a movie than reading a book. Also, some teenagers find books hard to read or the words are too small and cramped, therefore, not reading books.In conclusion, I feel that reading is important to teenagers.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

I agree with Meixuen about people who could read well are more likely to graduate from college and get a higher paying job, as by reading, we can enlarge our dictionary of phrases or vocabulary that could help us in essays, and it could definitely help you when you are doing comprehensions. You might never know, the passage you got is a story you read before!
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

i think that reading is important as it improves our vocabulary,stimulas our thinking skills and acts as a relaxation.reading improves our vocabulary as most writers uses many superb and excellent words to make the story interesting.by reading books, we will have the memory of these words and use them during our composition writing or examssecondly,it stimulas our thinking skills in terms of creativity,asking ourselves the "why" question and thoughts of inquisitive.like in deciphering a poem, reading activates our senses and we will constantly hunger for the reason the writer writes in a certain style. could it be because of culture? could it be used to evoke mystery and uncertainty? or could it be used to influence the thinking of the reader. the possibilities of the "why" question are endlessand thus it sets us thinking.it also promotes inquisitiveness as we want to find out more about the story plot. needless to say, we pick up books upon looking at the title or summary. why? it is because we find it special and want to know the story plot,thus giving us a sense of satisfication.personally, i like to read books related to spying assaisination and many more of this genre.it is because these books make me want to read on and find out things like, "will he survive?", "he is a superspy, how is he able to escape the villians" and things like that.that is why reading promotes inquisitiveness.lastly, reading acts as a relaxation.while reading, we forget about the stress of work and plunge into the story itself, picturing ourselves in it.i would say that reading is a quick way to escape the stresses that we are currently facing.in conclusion, reading is important as it broadens our horizon, relaxes our mind and set us thinking at the same time.
Debate: How important is reading to today's teenagers?
Side: Its imporatnt

Reading is important as in boosts our English. As english is the main language used in the world, it is vital for us to read more books to have better vocabulary skills for communicating with others easier.