Persuasive+Writing

Language Arts – 8H Cole Bollinger Persuasive 11-8-11

__Textbooks a Thing of the Past?__

Is your backpack really full with all those heavy books in there? We need to move into the 21st century and use everything that the technology of today provides us. Who needs textbooks when there are laptops that can do the same thing? There are three main reasons why I think we should replace textbooks with laptops.

Why would anyone not want a laptop? I mean, you would be able to surf the web, while reading a book on the computer, and you could highlight notes you need to know. We could have the textbooks downloaded onto our laptops into e-books. The great things about this are that you could save pages on your laptops and then go back to them to study. Perhaps in literature class, you have to read a book you have no idea what it means, while your reading the book on the laptop you could also open a link on the internet and look up its meaning. This could also refer to math too. You would be able to look up examples while you do your homework.

Laptops could help us do more than one thing at a time, by being on two different pages of a book at the same time. What if you are reading an e-book and you have to read one page and then answer a question on another you could look at them at the same time. Going back and forth would be a push of a button. Or if you did not want to push a button you could just put both pages on the same screen. Everyone says kids are on laptops too much, so just make the laptops used at school too.

Textbooks could easily be erased by laptops because no one would have to carry any notebooks or books, it would all be on the laptop. Do you just hate carrying all those books around? You would never have to do that again. E-books could replace textbooks, while word documents could replace notebooks. You would just have to make a folder on your laptop for each class for all your notes. You would not have to have a big load anymore because all of it would be on a laptop.

I think we should get every school to purchase laptops for their students. It would help them stay organized and also help them get a better education. This is the 21st century, so let’s start acting like it is.