DISCUSSION ABOUT

INTERNET
By :
Teguh Fachrizal
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 DISCUSSION
Purpose
• to provide new information to readers
regarding an issue. This information is also a
new perspective, so that the reader can see an
issue from a different perspective
Characteristics of discussion
• Using direct tenses
• Using modes such as (should, must, may, would, etc).
• Using contrastive, additive, and casual associations or
conjunctions as differentiators (similar, further,
however, otherwise, but, additionally, all the same, etc.).
• Use only trusted sources in a discussion text.
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THE DISCUSSION TEXT

ITSELF CONSISTS OF:
Issue, which contains the placement of problems or issues
which will then be debated.
Supporting Points (Argument for Against)
Contrasting Points (Elaboration)

Conclusion or Recommendation
 GIVING OPINION
the purpose and use of Expressing Opinion is
to express opinions, ideas or ideas from the
point of view of others about a phenomenon
(topic of discussion) that occurs.
 TYPE OF OPINION

Strong opinion
• Strong opinion allows no debate by showing
real evidence, although there are still some
who are able to deny strong opinion
weak opinion
• weak opinions still provide opportunities for
the interlocutor to give rebuttals quite easily.
 INTERNET
Components of the Internet
• •World Wide Web
• •Internet Service Providers (AOL Time Warner;
Sympatico,Telus, Shaw@Home, AT&T)
• •Portals ( MSN)
• •Browsers: Explorer, Netscape
• •Search Engines and directories ( Google, etc)
Impacts the Internet
• Changed the way we work
• Accellerated space time compression: globalization
processes
• Convergence of computers and distribution allows
greater efficiency of control and communication
• Much cheaper to sell via Internet than in person
• Average person is now estimated to spend 187 hours a
year on line
GLOBALIZATION OF
THE INTERNET
-US has privatized domain names but
retained control over their allocation

-This is a sore point for Europe and other

powerful economic regions

-Internet content providers are estimated to be

98% English, 87% commercial, and
dominantly US in origin

 
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