WRITING HW

Ex 1.
Widespread advertising can have several negative consequences.
Firstly, information from advertisements may not reflect the exact quality
of products. Businesses often exacerbate their products by adding
misleading contents and inviting celebrities to promote it so that they can
access a number of customers, particularly young adults. As a result,
clients will experience unpleasant feelings about the products and
thoroughly lose trust in brands that advertise such kinds of
advertisements. They can even boycott such businesses on social
media and also on the market which results in the bankruptcy of those
companies. Secondly, advertisements increase the price of products due
to the fact that businesses have to pay for the advertising agencies,
social platforms and televisions to promote their goods. Customers have
to purchase more than their normal expenditure hence it has a negative
impact on their budget.

Ex 2.
However, there are a number of drawbacks that arise from the
expansion of a country's tourism industry. Firstly, mass tourism
causes serious environmental issues, particularly in well-known tourist
attractions. For example, visitors consume lots of plastic bags, food and
bottles so it creates ample litter that requires large disposal factories
equipped with up-to-date technological systems. A wide range of tourists
throw litter on heritage sites, streets, rivers,...etc and as a consequence,
air and water pollution are more severe. Many cultural places,
monuments and museums have suffered from destructive activities from
tourists such as drawing or carving on statues so local councils have to
spend state budgets to repair those. Secondly, tourism has a major
effect on a country’s cultural identity. Tourists may have various
perspectives on the country’s culture that they travel, including negative
thoughts and behaviours being spread to their friends and other people
therefore they will have misleading outlooks. Furthermore, local people
may imitate tourists’ lifestyles so traditions and customs values will
disappear gradually.

Ex 3. Nowadays, a lot of offices employ open-space designs instead of

separate rooms for work.
Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

In the modern world, an increasing number of people are concerned about

setting workplace spaces for employees. It is argued that open-space designs
tend to be more dominant than private rooms in work offices these days.
Personally, I strongly believe that the merits of this trend overshadow its
demerits.

Open spaces in the workplace have ample benefits. Firstly, through interacting
face-to-face every day, open designs strengthen colleague relationships and
create potential opportunities for employees to accumulate experience from
their co-workers. People have to adapt to an extended workplace environment
hence they can enrich their knowledge by asking for help from others and
collaborating in teamwork. As a result, co-worker relationships are formed and
reinforced throughout the working process. Secondly, open-space offices
create higher teamwork productivity than separate ones. By exchanging ideas
and collaborating with each other to tackle issues directly, it is undeniable that
such offices bring more benefits than opposite ones.
Nevertheless, open-space offices have some drawbacks that might cause
negative impacts on staff. Distraction is the first particular disadvantage in that
office. For example, distractors can come from conversations and other
sources such as computer games, videos,... nearby results in losing attention to
work. As a consequence, work performance and productivity can be
decreased. In addition, job satisfaction may be lower because of privacy
intrusion from other people. However, all of these demerits may not be long-
lasting due to the fact that people have to adapt to the new work environment
in the brief period of time. Moreover, private-space offices cannot enrich social
skills for staff such as communication skills, teamwork skills and problem-
solving skills compared to extended ones.

To sum up, despite working in open-space styles may have negative influence
on employees’ concentration and job satisfaction, I hold the belief that those
designs not only strengthen co-worker relations and help them gain more
knowledge and experience but also increase work productivity in the office as
well.