G7Int - 3.9 Writing an Argumentative Essay (updated 2024)

Imagine a future world without teenagers, instead, as people in the United Kingdom like to call it, screenagers—kids that have a variety of mental and physical illnesses and are no longer capable of doing some of the jobs that are most important to our society.

Because spending too many hours in front of any kind of screen, even a phone, can become addicting, spark psychological difficulties, and cause lower grades in school, screen time for youth should be limited to two hours a day or less.

The answer is no, screen time affects youth in a negative way.

How does screen time really affect you and others you know?

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Kids ages eight to eighteen spend an average time of seven and one half hours a day. 

A study conducted by the “Kaiser Family Foundation” states that nearly every kid in the U.S. uses an electronic device almost every second outside of school.

An experiment on kids who got all their screens withdrawn had positive outcomes. 

Screen addiction is a serious problem in society.

A lot of kids feel like the overuse of screens has no effect on them, but it actually does, they just don’t notice it at all.

Preventing the over-use of screens could prevent addiction and the failure of a whole society.

An experiment on kids who got all their screens withdrawn had positive outcomes. The kids seemed calmer, fought less often, and slept better.

In addition, in a survey of youth ages eight to eighteen, nearly one in four kids felt addicted to screens. 

Thee cause of this is not necessarily looking at the screen, but much rather the addiction, not knowing when to stop, and being isolated from others. 

Something else the overuse of screens causes is psychological difficulties such as hyperactivity, emotional and conduct problems, as well as difficulties with peers. 

All these psychological and physical problems caused by one screen, it’s really not worth it. 

Depression is a severe illness which causes lots of deaths.

It is proven that adolescents who watch three or more hours of television a day are at especially high risk for poor homework completion, negative attitudes toward school, poor grades, and long-term academic failure.

This might result in a bad future with a bad job or no job at all. !is mainly happens because of the lack of enthusiasm towards school and the time spent using a screen instead of studying

Considering this, you should think about how every hour you watch TV instead of studying makes it harder to have a promising future.

In addition, the content of some TV shows out there doesn’t necessarily make you smarter, in fact, some of them make you dumber. 

First, they paraphrase their claim, then only one reason, and finally, they include their solution.

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