"Cómo Participar Efectivamente en una Discusión Académica"

Clase 31 de 39 • Curso de Preparación para TOEFL

Resumen

¿Cómo afrontar la discusión académica en el TOEFL?

La tarea de discusión académica del TOEFL es una oportunidad para destacar tus habilidades de comunicación escrita y expresar tus opiniones de manera efectiva. Esta tarea de escritura requiere que te integres a una conversación establecida, donde verás un post del profesor y las respuestas de otros estudiantes. Tu reto consiste en aportar a esta conversación con tu propia perspectiva, de forma clara y bien estructurada, en al menos 100 palabras y en un tiempo de 10 minutos. Echemos un vistazo más detallado a los elementos esenciales de esta tarea y cómo puedes afrontarla de manera efectiva.

¿Cómo comenzar tu aporte en la discusión?

Iniciar tu participación en la discusión puede parecer desafiante, pero con una introducción adecuada, puedes captar la atención de tus lectores desde el principio. Considera comenzar con frases como "en mi opinión", "creo que", "en mi experiencia" o "quiero decir". Estas expresiones no solo introducen tu punto de vista, sino que también integran tus ideas en la conversación que ya han iniciado el profesor y tus compañeros.

¿Cuál debería ser la estructura de tu respuesta?

Una respuesta efectiva en esta tarea debe seguir una estructura clara y lógica. Tras tu introducción inicial:

Desarrolla tus argumentos: Añade una o dos razones bien desarrolladas que apoyen tu opinión. Estas razones deben estar respaldadas por ejemplos concretos o experiencias que refuercen tus afirmaciones.
Comentario final: Cierra tu respuesta con un comentario final que reafirme tu posición o resuma tus principales puntos, contribuyendo así al cierre coherente de tu aporte en la discusión.

¿Cuáles son algunos consejos para destacar en esta tarea?

Lograr un aporte significativo en la discusión académica requiere de planificación y práctica. Aquí te comparto algunos consejos útiles:

Asegúrate de expresar tu propia opinión: Esta tarea se centra en tu perspectiva personal, así que es crucial que tus aportes reflejen tus pensamientos y experiencias.
Supera las 100 palabras: Aunque la medida mínima es de 100 palabras, intenta elaborar tus ideas lo suficiente para superar este conteo sin perder autenticidad o claridad.
Administra tu tiempo sabiamente: Tienes un límite de 10 minutos para completar esta tarea. Practica cronometraje para acostumbrarte a enfocarte y escribir de manera eficiente dentro de este tiempo.

¿Qué puedes aprender al comparar tu respuesta?

Una vez hayas completado tu respuesta, es altamente beneficioso revisar y compararla con ejemplos de muestra. Utiliza la rúbrica proporcionada para evaluar diferentes aspectos de tu escritura como coherencia, claridad y desarrollo de ideas. Comparar tu obra con ejemplos no perfectos te permitirá identificar áreas de mejora y desarrollar un juicio crítico sobre tu propio trabajo.

Aprovecha esta práctica constante, comparte tus escritos y busca retroalimentación constructiva, lo que enriquecerá tu dominio de la escritura y te preparará con solidez para el examen TOEFL. ¡Mantén el ánimo y sigue practicando! Cada intento te acerca más a la excelencia.

Luis Fernando Delgado Muñoz

student•

Hey mates, here is my response: In my opinion, one of the most important inventions of the last two hundred years was the programming language Python, since Python is one of the most language suitable for several development areas like data analysis, software development, robotics, machine learning and definitively is the best for AI development. The invention of this programming language has marked an important beginning era of software design, since without it, many of the usual virtual platforms we use today, simply would not exist. Just to mention an important example: new AI technologies developed by Open AI company have been developed using Python on their backends.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Elkin Tomás Sánchez Serna

student•

Currently, every technological and electronic device contains transistors. This component functions like a switch, controlling the flow of energy within micro and nanochips. The first computer, known as ENIAC, was created in 1945 during the context of the Second World War. This machine occupied a large room and was used primarily for performing arithmetic and logical operations, requiring the opening and closing of different pathways inside the circuit. Hence, transistors play a fundamental role; their small size allows for less space occupation and enhanced efficiency. Presently, scientists are striving to build smaller transistors and integrate more of them inside nanochips. Perhaps the limit lies within the atomic scale.

Ulises Fabián Gutiérrez Tame

student•

This answer seems AI generated and basically perfect... I was comparing the answers from other students with ChatGPT and only this one got 5/5 points using the TOELF Integrated Writing Rubrics.

Could you confirm if it was AI or how you got that score? If you actually made it by yourself I think this could be a great case of study to use it as a Template to score 5/5 point in this section but even ChetGPT doubt about it. Arguing an overly polished response, highly structured, and almost artificially precise.

Maybe you are just a genius, no offense I'm just truly curious about it.

Federico Acuña

student•

Here's my answer:

I believe the internet is one of the most important inventions because it has allowed us to connect with different cultures and learn from them. One of the many examples of how this happens is YouTube this platform allows people around the world to share their perspectives on many different topics through videos. On the other hand, our multicultural knowledge and abilities can be maximized with remote work (independently and freelancing; although there are many different options nowadays), now you don’t need to travel to work with different peers around the globe. For those reasons, I think the Internet is one of the best inventions.

Manuel Oviedo

student•

In my opinion, I agree that there are inventions that have changed the world a lot that not neccesarily are recognized as such. For example, one of these inventions is the plastic that now is used in almost all the things that we use in our our life like cellphones, cars, for package food, medical tools, etc. In this way, plastic have become an essential material for the modern life for the advantages that have, at the point that also has become a problem because we are drowning ourselves in plastics which is a problem that 200 thousand years ago did not exist. Now the challenge is to reduce the production of plastic and start to think of a life without it.

Alvaro Andrés Espitia Varón

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There are many advances and discoveries we can mention about the last hundred years all around the world, especially in fields such as epigenetics, development of DNA vaccines such as those of Moderna and Pfizer, the possibility of colonize Mars in the coming decades, thanks to scientific advances in space exploration and travel, all of the above without leaving aside the latest great technological revolution that is bringing advances in artificial intelligence, data sciences, machine learning, the Internet of Things, among other recognized and promising technological advances of today.

Leonel Federico Valencia Estudillo

student•

I think that the most important discovery of the last 2000 years is electricity because the electricity helps to make more inventions, the majority of products use electricity to work and helps to develop technologies like communication

Julian Esteban Pantoja Perenguez

student•

From my point of view, transportation has had an incredible technological and scientific development to what nowdays we enjoy. I consider that it has been one of the most revolutionary points that has made our lives easier. Just consider how two centuries before, our ancestors had to transport themselves: by wlaking, riding horses or even dunkies, moreover how much time they used to take going from one place to another. Fortunatelly today we are able to go by flying from one country to another in just hours, also we can use the massive methods of transportation such as metro, trains, etc that allows us go thorugh the cities and moreover that allows to take from one place to another goods, food, electronics, and diferent merchandises.

Jennifer Tercero

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I think that agriculture is one of the disciplines that have had a lot of changes and all of these discoveries have changed not just the way we produce our food but the wee we eat, the way we live and think, for example, 200 years ago we didn't have all the technology we use today with the big computed tractors and machines has lead us to even change the regular population diet, in some parts of the world for example in Japan you wouldn't even think about eaten and they had even a fruit that comes from Central America, nowadays it's possible, and they had even invented new kinds of those fruits and vegetables.

Julián Cárdenas

student•

In the last 200 years of advances, a lot of useful technologies for our life have been discovered that are now used in an indispensable way, advances in the automobile industry, improvements in medical treatments, the creation and rapid increase of telecommunications, the which built a second digital life for millions of people, among other types of technological events that changed our lives

Santiago Gonzalez Lopez

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Im my opinion, transportation is one of the most important technological avdances in the last 200 hundred years because before we depend only for the animals or boats but now we have many differents way to transport. All of this innovations has an impact on the security, time, confortability, costs, and other things that make it very important for humanity.

Miguel Gomez

student•

I think that one of the most important inventions or discoveries in human history from the las two hundred years is the photo camera and photography. Nowadays we give for granted the possibility to record something through a photo from a device pocket sized and at our hands. Maybe because of this we usually we do not give the proper fascination to the possibility to “catch” the image of something to posterity.

We just have to think on some few examples to notice the importance of the photo. Thanks to photography we are able to see things that are far away from us almost as it we were there. We right now know how does a Rhyno look like, a big sized animal nearly shaped as a hippo with big horn on his forehead. Nonetheless, for people before photography, imagining that kind of animal would be impossible to figure in accuracy, some actually argues that the myth of the unicorn comes from the description of the Rhyno.

Something that is actually important in regards to the photography is that lets you have proof of events and situations. Some time ago, new would be difficult to properly cover without recording the current events graphically, and actually this would let space to fake news easily. Today, the only way we believe something is only if see it and despite it is relatively easy to manipulate pictures, the mere existence of pictures makes more difficult to hoax without a minimum of technical knowledge, shrinking the space for fraud.

Thanks to something we have always next to us the way we see the world has changed literally, and there is no way back fortunately.

Diego Valle

student•

In my opinion, I would say, the discovery of the penicillin was so important and transcendent, because before its discovery, people die so easily and at an early age. People from all class society perish from many diseases, even wealthy people were not immune. There was no possibility of cure. The invention of the antibotics gives people the opportunity to get longer lives and be healthy, and opens the opportunity for young people to get excited about science and new discoveries in different fields of knowledge, especially in medicine. With the discovery of penicillin, that lends to better medical treatments, better ways of making surgeries, so on.

Cristian Camilo Bulla Murcia

student•

In my opinión there are lots of technological inventions that we use today and even notice their importance. For example GPS, you use every day when you want to addressing to an specific direction or simply to follow a route for a trip. Have you ever thought what you would do without this important invention?

Cristian Camilo Bulla Murcia

student•

Complete:

In my opinión, there are lots of technological inventions that we use today and even notice their importance. For example GPS, you use every day when you want to addressing to an specific direction or simply to follow a route for a trip. Have you ever thought what you would do without this important invention?

Life would be very different, we would have had to invent another kind of strategies to arrive on time to an appointments, meetings or places we don't know where are located.

In summary, every invention that has been a revolution for the society It has conveyed a daily tool than we can have access just by using a mobile device.

Juan Miguel Cardona

student•

In my view, the most important invention in the last hundred years is the renewable energy. The way of living established for most western industrialized countries demands an incredible amount of energy and non-renewable resources, posing an actual threat to our environment. Renweable sources of energy, in that matter, represent an atractive alternative for the flourishing of our civilizations while we maintain certain balance with the natural world.

Ulises Fabián Gutiérrez Tame

student•

Here's my answer:

As an IT professional with over 4 years of experience in the field I would argue that AI is one of the most advanced technological inventions in the last 200 years. The popularized used of this technological advance has been widely accepted by retail and this is a great factor to assume is one of the greatest inventions, maybe even the most relevant advance in the tech industry. Furthermore the cost of AI has been reduce drastically in the past years, making it more accesible for mass adoption and easier to be implemented in any industry or the personal lives of people. Those main reasons are why I believe that AI is the greatest tech invention in the past 200 years.

Carlos Esteban Castillo Cano

student•

Hey mates, here you can find my answers: To me, despite the big attention that very developed technologies are receiving, we still depend on certain inventions that make our lives easier. For instance, we shouldn't ignore the great advances we have made in learning a new language. In the past people weren't supposed to learn as many languages as we know now, also we must highlight the modern translating apps which have been equipped lastly with new features that are quite efficient when it comes to talking to a person who doesn't have the very same language.

Kevin Gonzalez

student•

My response: In my opinion, the blue LED is the most underrated invention in the last two hundred years. It was invented in the twentieth century, I believe during the 80s. This invention changed all the industries and the world as we used to know. First, the blue LED is used to produce white light which are present in modern lighting solutions around the globe. This kind of illumination is cheaper, more efficient and more environmentally friendly than older light bulbs. Additionally, the blue LED is a key component of LCD screens which are currently present in several gadgets such as TVs, cell phones, computers, billboards and even microwaves and fridges. Moreover, most of the smart technology is based on the blue LED. Therefore, without any doubt, I consider the blue LED is the best invention in the last 200 years.

Juan Manuel Mamani Canchohuaman

student•

I agree with student 1, there are so many advances in the science and technological devices that the people are not always aware of how they help in our everyday lives. For example, nowadays, the electric scooter is one of the best options for getting around a big city like Lima because it helps to avoid the heavy traffic and navigate through streets that do not have enough space for cars. Additionally, this type of vehicle helps reduce pollution generated by cars, motorbikes, trucks, etc. However, it is important to mention that the prices and configurations of scooters are not accessible to all social classes due to their high costs and the extremely poor condition of roads in disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Gina Abigail Chávez Castillo

student•

There are so many inventions that really change the way we are living today, but I want to focus on the transport. Remember old times when people had to use donkeys, or wood cars, or just their legs to move from one place to another but now a days we can travel from one continent to another continent in hours or days. In my opinion the airplane has really change the way we move I mean it’s a big step to build a transport that literally use the sky as a route. Don’t you think? ¡I wonder what would be the next big transport invention¡

Jair Israel Avilés Eusebio

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Sample response:

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I think one of the most important inventions from the last two centuries is the electricity. Countries got developed faster by transitioning from industrial economies by consuming energy and electricity is one type that have an impact in everyone’s lifestyle.

Think about how they used to live in the nineteenth century. Your lights at places were powered by candles and other source such as oil. With electricity comes to not only get lights but also other electronics devices were invented and that boosted the innovation and development of other fields such as healthcare.

Of course this comes to at cost as how sustainable are generating electric energy from the sources scientists have found. As a result, further research had been carried out to continue with the benefits of consumption for electricity without affecting people and being more sustainable with the environment.