TOEFL ESSAY - Corrections are welcome TOEFL WRITING PRACTICE – Jan 19th Both the lecture and the reading passage are about “ecocertified” companies and whether or not United States’ companies would join this ecological manufacture trend. While the lecturer says that most American wood businesses are seeking this certification, the text reveals a contrasting opinion; American companies are not willing to make some sacrifices to get this certification. And there are three main reasons for both opinions. First, the man in the lecture states that American customers distinguish advertising made by the own brand and made by an independent organization. Therefore, they are very likely to buy a product that has a green certification because if it was given by an accredited international organization for example. In contrast, the author of the reading believes that American consumers are overwhelmed with all the advertising they face every day and do not even bother paying attention to another great thing about a product. Second, according to the professor from the listening, Americans are willing to buy a product that is somewhat pricier than another one because is approved by some accredited ecofriend organization. He says that they only take price as the main factor when there is an enormous price tag difference. However, the text shows that Americans are always drawn to buy the cheapest since there are always a lot of variety on the market. Lastly, the lecturer affirms that the other point that American companies are taking into account is market competition. Since there are various international companies that have this ecocertification, if they get in the American market, lots of American companies will lose their customers. On the other hand, the author of the reading states that as American companies sell most of their wood inside the country, they do not actually care about having or not a green certification.

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TOEFL ESSAY Technology is becoming more present in people’s daily lives in the last few years, thus, children are born in a high-tech era. In my perspective, this technological environment does interfere harmfully on these new little citizens’ imagination process. I feel this was for two main reasons, which I will explore in the following essay. First of all, the internet provides us with lots of information. Therefore, nowadays people do not need to think too much about a doubt, instead, they go on Google and quickly have the answer they want. I noticed that this process of googling has become automatic for most persons, also it has an impact on children’s lives. I will use my cousin as an example; Lucas was born in 2010 so he always had a computer at home. Every time he needs to do a school project, he gets directly on the computer and goes to YouTube to search for ideas on what to do. This action stops him from using his own creative thinking process, in other words, he does not develop his creativity. Secondly, the popularity of YouTube is an aggravating factor for this significant availability of knowledge caused by online browsers. Besides showing Lucas different options for his homework, YouTube - being a video platform - also exhibits images, which is different from Google that only provides written work. That means this video source is even more harmful for kids’ thoughts’ creation because they do not have to imagine the idea that is being described anymore. My cousin’s assignment was a helmet drawing, but instead of drawing one out of his imagination, he wrote down on YouTube “how to draw a helmet” and simply copied it. In conclusion, I strongly believe that new virtual resources make children less capable of developing a creative thinking. The reason why is that on the web they have everything ready to be copied, and because this stops them from imagining something original.