Are Pens Better Than Pencils?
On One Hand: Pens are BetterPen ink comes in a multitude of colors. With a pen, you can draw a green dragon or make red check marks. In fact, you can even buy one retractable pen that contains three different colors of ink. But perhaps even better than the many colors of ink is the fact that a pen is a self-contained writing utensil. Unlike standard pencils that require a sharpener, or mechanical pencils that require the addition of extra pieces of lead, the pen will keep writing until it runs out of ink. And according to Leo Hickman’s column on the guardian.co.uk website, you could make a straight line two miles long with all of the ink in a ballpoint pen.On the Other: Pencils are BetterEveryone makes mistakes, and pencils are designed with the imperfect human in mind. Misspelled vocabulary words and the incorrect answer to a math problem can be easily corrected thanks to the eraser affixed to the top of the pencil. But having an eraser is not the only advantage. Pencils are actually
