Modern professional women confront a difficulty that men don’t generally face: the struggle to balance the pressures of work and home. In your opinion, how can this difficulty best be solved? Give reasons for your answer and include examples from your own knowledges and experiences.
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Improvement Suggestions
4The logical structure of your essay is noticeably unclear and your paragraphs lack clear topic sentences and complexity in structure. It is important to structure your essay with clear and distinct introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. Each paragraph should begin with a clear topic sentence, followed by supporting sentences with examples or data, and finally, a concluding sentence that wraps up the main point of the paragraph.
You have made an attempt to introduce and conclude the essay, but the introduction does not clearly set out the thesis or overview of the response, and the conclusion does not sufficiently summarize the key points or restate your position in a clear manner. In your introduction, clearly state your thesis and outline the structure of your essay. The conclusion should restate your thesis and summarise the main points made in your essay, reassuring readers of the strength of your argument.
Your essay provides some relevant ideas connected to the topic, but they are not always clearly expressed or fully developed. It is vital to create coherent and comprehensive paragraphs where each main point is not just stated, but also explained and supported by specific, relevant examples or arguments. Focus on elaborating each point thoroughly before moving on to the next.
The response shows some relevance to the prompt but lacks specificity in examples and often resorts to generalizations and repeated ideas. It's important that the examples are not only relevant but they are also specific and drawn from real situations, statistics, studies, or personal experiences that directly support your argument or point of view. This specificity adds authenticity to your essay and strengthens your argument.
Support ideas with relevant, specific examples
Examples make your writing easier to understand by illustrating points more effectively.
Examples, if used properly, not only help you get higher marks for ‘Task Response’ but also for ‘Coherence’.
When giving examples it is best to put them after your main idea or topic sentence. They can be used in the middle of supporting sentences or they can be used to start a new sentence. There is no rule for where exactly to give examples in essays, logically they would come after your main idea/topic sentence or just after a supporting sentence.
Linking words for giving examples:
- for example
- for instance
- to illustrate this
- to give a clear example
- such as
- namely
- to illustrate
- take, for example