You experienced an incident on public transport that caused you distress. Write a letter to the manager of the public transport company. In your letter describe the incident explain how this incident affected you suggest what could be done about it.

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Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to notify you of an upsetting incident I experienced on the Tafford
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line
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week and to suggest ways to prevent similar ones in future. As I always do after my shift on Friday night, I was taking the 9:15
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from Central to Tafford. Usually, the
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is crowded, but
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week, I was alone in the carriage. At the
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station from Central, a man got on the
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and approached me, demanded my wallet and phone, which I handed over, and got off at the
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stop. Obviously, I was terrified, and without my phone, I had no way to call for help. The emergency button on the carriage was out of order, so I was unable to notify the driver, which added to my distress. Since the robbery, I have been too afraid to return to work as I have to rely on public transport to commute. I have filed a police report, and I would
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ask that you take steps to ensure
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an attack does not happen again. While installing cameras in every carriage would be one option, I feel that having public transport or police officer on every
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after dark would be even better. I would
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strongly suggest that all emergency buttons are tested across the network, as
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defect added to my trauma that night. Please look into these matters as a matter of urgency. Yours faithfully, Pearl Smith
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Use cohesive linking words accurately and appropriately

Linking words are very important in your essay.

To score effectively on your IELTS exam, you should make an effort to implement short concise sentences coupled with linking words.

Almost every sentence in your essay should have a linking word of some sort.

In fact, the only sentences that can omit linking words are your background sentence and thesis.

Linking word examples:

  • firstly
  • secondly
  • thirdly
  • in additional
  • moreover
  • also
  • for example
  • for instance
  • therefore
  • however
  • although
  • even though
  • despite

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