self-evaluation cover sheet

Topic: E-books are Better than Paper Book

Purpose: To influence more people on using e-book.

Type of Audience: Against

Actuation Speech: Consideration of using E-books

Paper book has been in use for ages. Its reputation stands for its many years; it has been used as a tool for sharing and obtaining knowledge. However, is it relevant enough for its use in contemporary education? E-book is a relatively new advancement in the education sector (Letchumanan, 2013). The benefits that e-book has brought to the modern world is significant. Therefore, a convincing argument is imperative on the contribution of the e-book in education.

The world is fast changing. As a result, activities are getting innovative ways to fit in the ever-changing condition. With the advent of technology, various fields such as medicine, communication, and education are being improved. The education system has been revolutionizing to make it easy for learning to be conducted. This factor is essential for all students and learners involved. They must tap this change to make progress in the field of education. I have had the opportunity to experience both the paper book and e-book learning tool. Therefore, l can make a comparison based on the experience l have with both of them without a doubt. This speech will consider which between paper books and e-book is a useful learning tool.

An e-book is portable (Siegenthaler, 2010). Their number of smartphone users is rising. The advantage of an e-book is that it can be stored on a smartphone. This is a smart move since a smartphone is a portable device. To understand this, consider the paper book, which is a printed publication. The physical size of a book, on average, is bigger than a smartphone. An e-book stored in a smartphone can be considered light since it is the same weight. Therefore, it is more convenient to store a heap of information on a smartphone than a paper book. With an e-book, one can store a thousand of the information stored in an e-book. Therefore, an e-book gives a simplified version of a paper book.

An e-book is boundless. The information that can be accessed from a paper book is limited. It is limited in that one can only access information written by only that author of the book. However, with an e-book considering it can be stored in multiples in a smartphone and variety of genre and authors, makes it boundless. This means a person can access material related to any field from various authors by simply using an e-book. An e-book opens up the world of information to a single gadget. The only limitation to a gadget is the memory space. For instance, in a college where many courses are being studied, an e-book can be a student best study tool since it simplifies all the classes the student takes in a single platform, an e-book.

An e-book has a broad audience. The quality of being portable gives an e-book the ability to have a broad audience. Recent research shows that many people are considered to stay on their phones on average, three hours a day. Therefore, people spending more time on their phones allows many of its users to access the e-book. An added advantage to this is the availability of the internet. Either using a laptop or a smartphone, one can access materials online. Therefore, consider a student that is far away from the library of the school. It would be convenient for that student to access the information on an online platform. Therefore, many of its users have access to e-book than a paper book leading to a broad audience.

In conclusion, an e-book adapts to modern learning. Therefore, it is here to stay. With that realization, the education sector should implement it in teaching. The benefits of supporting e-book are far much better than a paper book. The whole idea behind the education system is availing information to its students. An e-book supports that vision better since a person with just a smartphone or computer device; they can access millions of information. Thousands of e-books can be stored in a device without taking any physical space. Therefore, it eliminates the need to carry many paper books, which can be cumbersome. An e-book makes the entire learning process efficient.

References

Letchumanan, M. &. (2013). Migrating to e‐book: a study on perceived usefulness and ease of use. . Library Hi Tech News.

Siegenthaler, E. W. (2010). Improving the usability of e-book readers. . Journal of usability studies, 6(1), 25-38.