IELTS Writing Correction and Feedback

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How I will assess your essay

Your essay will be assessed against IELTS exam criteria [Task 1, Task 2]

Task Achievement: How well did you meet the task requirements

Coherence and Cohesion: the structure and ease of understanding your response

Lexical Resource: The level of vocabulary and errors in word choice or form

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: The frequency of grammatical errors and the range of sentence types used.

Sample of an essay that was submitted ( original is below)

Question : Although many benefits may result from space exploration, the costs involved are enormous. There is some debate as to whether this money could be more wisely spent to provide for the basic needs of mankind such as food, clean water, contraception etc. for this reason space exploration should be restricted,

To what extent do you agree?

Student's Answer:

Feedback from IELTS tutor

*This is an unofficial estimate.

Suggested Next Steps:

1. Grammar is a serious issue, you need to work on singular/plural, articles, and verb endings. An excellent site to learn about grammar and do practice tests is at http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

2. Work on connecting more of your simple sentences together to create more compound and complex sentences. An excellent site that explains sentence parts and allows you to do practice quizzes is at http://esl.about.com/od/intermediatewriting/a/cplex_sentence.htm

3. Quite a few errors with commas. A good site to review the rules about these is at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/02/

4. Next time you do a practice test I suggest you time yourself - 1 hour for the whole writing exam or 40 minutes for an essay (part two). I suspect you spent more time than this by your high word count. Part of the reason for doing practice writing tests is to push yourself to complete the task within the required time. You are welcome to send me your future writing practice exams.

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 Students original essay (no correction made)

One giant step forward for mankind is that human can land on the moon! And there comes an argument putting the funds to exploring space or not. In my opinion, much problems existing on our earth before we do the exploration programme.

The most thing we should do first is reducing the gap between the rich and the poor country. It’s a good idea to give some financial aid to poor countries. Illiteracy, homeless, jobless can be seen everywhere because the state has limited public funds to built schools so that it’s very difficult to find a good occupation. Poverty leads to fighting! It is apparent that wealthy countries could do more to help people in poor countries. If they want to keep the globe peaceful/

Furthermore, the phenomenon of pollution of environment has increased nowadays. And it threatens the continuity and survival of the human race. So resolving the pollution is more emergent than exploring the space. Also many people think international organization must be set to intervene in the world affairs to resolve the pollutions such as soil pollution, air pollution or light pollution.

In addition, many diseases are not sure or have no good treatment these days such as AIDS and HIV. So human should put more attention on the treatment of these terrible diseases and make patients recover from these diseases without any pain. Moreover, many illness bring great pain to human beings like cancers so we should pay more attention on the methods to fight diseases rather than galaxies.

I believe that there are still many problems on the world which we should do first. It’s not good idea to spend huge amounts of money on exploring space. Making our world cleaner and more peaceful is more important.