Do you think that technological advancement has brought more harm than good? Use specific reasons and details to support your opinion.
Technological era has changed society's living standards significantly. Whether these alternations are more hazardous than beneficial is a matter of debate. In this essay I will set forth the two main reasons as to why I believe that technology is an advantage in human development.
Firstly, today's communication methods are more efficient and rapid compared to a few decades ago. Mobile phones with applications such as "WhatsApp" have replaced the ancient and traditional form of emails. Studies conducted by a research IT group of Oxford University have showed that the utilization of hand-wri...
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Could you please provide some
Could you please provide some more feedback? What does make the essay be only a band 5.5? I would be very thankful if you could help me spot the main mistakes.
Thanks in advance!
If the content is less than
If the content is less than 250 words, you will not get marks over 6.0 no matter how good you are. There is a hidden rule which is: more content, better marks.
Read a real story by a testbig user why more content:
http://www.testbig.com/ielts-essays/some-people-prefer-spend-their-live…
Oh.. I did really not know
Oh.. I did really not know about that rule at all.I have been told many times that the number of words doesn't really matter, that it is actually better to write less and good than the opposite because more writing normally leads to more grammatical/spelling mistakes (and therefore lower marks).
However, I will try to write more than 250 from today forth. Thanks for the information!
Just one last thing, if the essay had accomplished the rule of minimum 250, what would the score be roughly?
Once again, thanks for the tips! Really appreciated it.
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flaws:
No. of Words: 224 350
Minimum 250 words wanted
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 5.5 out of 9
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 224 350
No. of Characters: 1191 1500
No. of Different Words: 151 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.869 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.317 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.123 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 96 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 78 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 55 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.101 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.312 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.56 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.013 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5