Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay with the topic “Should colleges promote paperless working?” You should write at least 150 words but no more than 210 words. Your essay should include the following contents:

1. 無(wú)紙化辦公正在成為當(dāng)下企業(yè)推廣的熱點(diǎn)

2. 校園無(wú)紙化辦公的好處和壞處

3. 你的觀點(diǎn)

Life is time-pressed more than any before in history. As office workloads daily is going constantly heavier, there has to be a solution to improve efficiency whilst combat any possible increase in waste. Going paperless has become a rule untold but known in the core of any enterprises. Now the idea is making its quick path into campuses.

Should there be paperless schoolwork? The debate sees no end at least for a while. To begin with, it is saving paper for real, one merit of which is eco-friendliness; With one click on the “undo”, it allows doing again once a student makes mistakes after submission, he may repeat this procedure until he has reached the deadline; Among all the good things paperless work brings, students reap the benefits of improved efficiency by changing the way they write, all by their finger hitting the keyboard and an essay could be finished within days.

Yet it is also true that going paperless also keeps students from progress in various aspects. Triggered by the question whether it really goes better to become free from pens, many would feel uneasy on seeing students failing to write in a clean and organized format and forgetting the right sketches of characters. How about turning to computers and the Internet for answers instead of seeking after a solution by themselves? This can work, and hinders their abilities to independent thinking. Can students fully focus on their work with their laptops on? Fairly large a number will have to think twice whether to nod or shake.

From my personal perspective, evolving technology has to help humans with no matter what they do, but over-reliance on technology may lead things to an opposite path. In order not to get laid down by paperless schoolwork, we are supposed to tap into our brain and create with hand. Still, there are quite many things that cannot be fully replaced by computers such as drafting out a day’s routine, taking down key knowledge. So I don’t really think we can fully go paperless, and we cannot go brainless. Only when we find the perfect balance between handwriting and paperless working can we improve our efficiency.