Does Music Help Us Learn While We Work?

This week we have been writing to persuade our teacher that music will help us with our work or it will distract us from our completing it. Before we started our writing we had been looking at different examples on what made a good persuasive text.

In my opinion I believe that it depends on the person if they like to listen to music while they work or not. Some get distracted, some think that it helps them learn. For me I think that it helps me learn but I believe that we should get a choice if we want to listen to music or not.

My first point is, the music could inspire the people who work better with music. The music we listen to would be inspiring to us wouldn’t they? Sometimes we run out of ideas and we don’t know what to write next. When that happens to us we could listen to the song and think what it is really about. We could then add that idea to our writing. But for the people who get distracted by the music would just get off task and all of their ideas would float out of their head.

Another reason is, if we listen to music, the people who learn better with it would be more quiet. If we are focused on the music and our work there would be less talking or no talking at all. While we are listening to the music we would be lost in our work and music that there would be no talking or noise. Others would just start tapping and making even more noise. Would you like it if there was lots of noise and talking or some peace and quiet?

My final reason is, you would gain more trust in everyone. Trust is something that you need to have to let us listen to music. You have to trust that we are listening to appropriate music and that we are getting our work done while music is in the background. People who can’t listen to music while doing their work would stop learning and you would have to take away the music.

Therefore I believe that we should have a choice between listening to music or not because everyone is an individual and we all learn in various ways.