Directions: For this part, you are allowed 50 minutes to write a composition of no less than 300 words under the title of “Advantages and Disadvantages of Doing Research Online.” Your composition should be based on the following outline:
1) Present situation about doing research online;
2) Advantages for online research;
3) Disadvantages for online research.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Doing Research Online
With the development of technology and the popularization of Internet，more and more researchers take the advantages of Internet to do research online. However, every coin has two sides. Doing research online has both advantages and disadvantages.
Internet helps our life and study easier and faster. Firstly, doing research online is more convenient. It takes less time for researchers to form bloc online, and do their project together, or communicate anytime no matter where they are. Secondly, doing research online is easier for researchers to find the sources and information they need. They have more time to do research instead of checking information they need.Thirdly, doing research online helps researchers save more money. The top advantage of Internet is that you can get anything you want in a short time with less money. Researchers could spend less money and time to get anything they want, including books, machines, and help-online sometimes.
However, doing research online has disadvantages either. On the one hand, it is hard to stimulate the researchers' innovation. As we know, there are too many already-found results in the Internet. Sometimes the researcher prefers to use to complete their research, or choose them as the basis of their research. They would not like to spend more time on reading and thinking, so it is hard for them to innovate. On the other hand,doing the research online will cause more plagiarism. With the convenience of Internet, more and more people would not like to check information in libraries or from other sources, they rely on the Internet. As a result, when they cannot find enough information or their deadline is coining, they plagiarize directly from the Internet with a fluky mind what they found. But how many of them are so lucky?
In a conclusion, doing research online has both advantages and disadvantages. It will help people to do research easier, faster with less money and less time. However, if people rely on it directly, they will sometimes become less innovative. People should learn how to take the advantage of Internet, and how to avoid its disadvantages.
