There are various reasons why people do not like to do things in new ways. These include environmental issues, ethical issues, and personal subjectivity problems. First, some inventions in technology are being resisted for their potential harm to the environment, even though the probability of this potential danger is extremely low. Nuclear power development, for instance, is the example of this. People are terrified that a single mistake in the nuclear power producing process can damage the environment and endanger humans' life for generations. Other issues that drive people to resist new technology is ethical issues. Many people think that it is just not right for men to interfere with what is considered as "God's work". The improvement of humans' knowledge has reached a state that people can do almost everything, even creating a new life form from a single cell which is known as cloning. This, for some people, is wrong. They believe when men mess with nature, something terrible might happen. They fear that a new species or a dangerous mutant will be created as a result of it. In addition to those reasons, another common reason is people feel comfortable enough with their way of life now. This means anything new that does not really help their life is not needed. As long as they are happy, it is better not to take risk. Imagine if there are no other ways than nuclear power to produce electricity, certainly no one will oppose the plan to build a nuclear powerplant. However, when there is a safe old way, there is no point risking their comfortable life. In conclusion, people resist some new invention because of ethical and environmental issues or subjectivity problems.
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wonderful, your paragraph has a strong unity and coherence as well as efficiency. you are using not only good phrases but also some good examples to justify your reasons. Furthermore, it is very well-organized so that the reader can easily understand what you want to emphasize in this paragraph. I only need to read your paragraph once to understand your ideas.
the structure of the paragraph itself is very good with the inclusion of main idea, topic, and concluding sentence. the choices of words are also good with no repetition. the application of tenses sentences' structure is already good.
In my opinion, even though you are only using your own ideas for the writing, you should at least use some quotations to attract reader as well as to learn how to use references and in-text citations. We need to master how to use them because if we are writing a thesis or report it is impossible for us to use only our ideas, therefore we need to get used to it.
Dear Hartono
You have done well in your analysis of your grammar weakness and your revision of your WA1 paragraph. However, they are both incomplete, I think. References for your paragraph? The exercise for your grammar problem?
Also, do post your reflections on the past 5 to 6 weeks in the module.
Well, there is tiem to catch up. All the best!
With regard to the encouraging comments from Sjienindro, I also have similar remarks for your paragraph. In fact, it is good for the whole:the clarity of topic sentence and concluding sentence as well as the coherence of your ideas. The flow between the ideas is fluent as well. Therefore, these factors help me a lot in understanding and catching the ideas mentioned in your paragraph.
About the content, I agree with the three reasons you draw out, especially for the second idea. I appreciate it very much because it 's quite new with me. Somehow, it makes your paragraph "like.no.other",i.e.,unique.
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