Compare and Contrast essay

Music & Reading

Outline. Point by point.

1st Paragraph
- Introduction
2nd Paragraph
- Skills
3rd Paragraph
- Public (influences)
4th Paragraph
- Purposes
5th Paragraph
- Conclusion

Music & reading

Two amazing things to compare, think about it, are you really a reader? Who most of the free time reads? Or just a musical person, who enjoys instruments, rhythm and melody? Well I am going to talk about what kind of influence do reading and music share; they both have similarities talking about culture, vocabulary development, etcetera. But let’s just talk about or better said, let’s discuss about what makes difference between these, how I prefer to call them hobbies.

The first difference that I’m going to talk about is skills, when you read for example a book, a magazine, newspaper, an article, etcetera, you practice reading skills. You develop this skills an also speaking by the time you are learning new vocabulary to put in practice. Another skill you practice is writing, by the time you improve your texts; writing without missing a letter, better grammar and making coherence in your speech, just for the fact that reading helps you in all this things. Music does not work on this that much, but you are improving listening skills, recognizing rhythms, understanding words or phrases and also speaking skills focused on pronunciation and fluency.

The second difference is what the influences are, for most people, when reading or listening to music. You can tell me that music and reading are universal and you find them in all countries in the world and I would agree, but here is the difference; it is all involved depending on what you read or what you listen to, for example, people who listen to heavy music tend to be more anxious and a person who reads books, tends to think with more intellectuality and maybe in a reasonable and passive way. However there is light music and people could get involved into this too, by thinking in a different way from people who listen to heavy music, it is related to the volume you like to listen to or the kind of instruments they like, etc.

The third difference is the purposes; I know there are a lot of similarities like for example the purposes for relaxing, reading as a hobby and music are also not different at all in some cases. But the purpose of music is, for most people, to express, to let out your emotions, in other words, to just enjoy, and reading it could be all this but the difference is that a huge variety of books, magazines, etcetera, that are made for learning purposes, for example, in the school we all know that most of books that are found in the library are for students to learn and most people think that magazines are only for fun, but not all true, there are magazines that have the purpose of learning such as “speak up!” and “Think in English” do.

So no matter what kind of person you are, you either read or you either listen to music. Reading and music are universal no matter the country, no matter the culture; these two hobbies are all around the world, as I have listened to some people say: “music is a human nature” and I think reading is an every day activity. So you could be a music person at the same time as you are a music person and, it really works for most of the people.

"New Studies: Music Makes People Nicer | Mind Matters | Big Think." Big Think. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2010.