0500/22 Paper 2 Directed Writing and Composition October/November 2020 Write a magazine article for young people about who they should listen to when faced with decisions in their own lives. In your article you should: • evaluate the attitudes and opinions about experts in each of the texts • give your own views, based on what you have read, about getting the best advice. How Accurate and Reliable Experts are? Don’t you agree that we are surrounded by a range of advice-providing free lancers? Family, friends, colleagues, internet and these expert professionals! Filtering the most dependable advice that would give successful results is definitely a tough job, and to simplify this task, we can evaluate situations and the most suitable aid respectively. Now each individual would prioritize each situation differently but most commonly it is seen that for routine errands, internet is the quickest help at our disposal. Although online reviews maybe faked or not always be precise, they can bring us satisfactory results. Recently, people have become saturated with taking guidance from experts, they rather choose to follow their close friends and family as they trust them more; an idea of similar thinking and discussions surfaces wherein a majority of citizens develop the same choices and opinions. Celebrity endorsements are often just publicity stunts and only a few have true meaning, thus, their negative influence can totally cajole us to follow them blindly. Broad-minded thinking and widened visions are left behind in the race to compete with the world who only admires glamour! Even though the internet is cheap and easy to access, sometimes expert advice is essential on important decisions; nothing can ever replace the customer satisfaction of human interaction. It’s never a pain to explore a variety of options and then select the best. Furthermore, choosing the appropriate school or career path for your child, medical treatments, global awareness or any vital decisions need counselling from specialists. However, on occasions of emotional crisis, support and tips from family is more worthy as they understand us much better. We need to be felicitous in making our choices and discriminating between the mediocre and ideal option; updating ourselves on current affairs by gaining first hand knowledge from environmentalists is the correct approach. Sometimes their high vocabulary and use of heavy terminologies may seem daunting but their lectures would always broaden our horizons. Moreover, the experience of these learned men in the fields overrides our intellect and we should accept their views on topics of their expertise. Likewise, we need to be prudent enough to judge that the person we rely on, is honest and understands our concerns as a fellow human being and not a money-minded professional. Additionally, we need to keep faith in our decisions and not keep our mind wavering. Therefore, we should collect and evaluate all possible aspects to an agenda and then choose what we feel is the best, because at the end we are only responsible for our choices and decisions. Desperate times call for desperate measures, thus, keeping alert about the people and events around us will assist us in making wise choices.
