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Band 4.5

Topic: the rise of social media has affected personal relationships and society as a whole. Do the advantages of using social media for communication outweigh the disadvantages?

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Whether
the
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social
media
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 has had more and more impact on relationships and communities is a controversial problem.
This
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 writer believes that the benefits of having lots of
friends
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 and building
reputation
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a reputation
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 outweigh the
drawback
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drawbacks
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 of criticisms. One of the advantageous
factor
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 is that social
media
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 helps
people
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 to have more
friends
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 than in reality.
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, social
media
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 makes
this
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 world become smaller and gets
people
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 together. Individuals can find and make
friends
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 from all over the world, to chat and share their stories
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 interests. Taking Facebook as an example, there are many
chatting
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 groups for
users
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 to join
in
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and discuss their
favorite
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 topics.
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, using social
media
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 to make
friends
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 is prior
with
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 most
people
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. Using
internet
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 to build up
reputation
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a reputation
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also
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 needs to be considered. On social
media
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, individuals can change and decorate their personal blogs to make a good impression on others. On social
media
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,
people
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 can only judge everyone through their personal pages, which means that
users
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 can have their most beautiful images in other’s eyes. It is not difficult to find actors using pretty pictures
about
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 themselves and their
activity
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activities
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 to help the poor, which makes them become more popular.
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, social
media
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 can publicize a person
as well as
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 their beauty.
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, some residents are afraid of
criticisms
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criticism
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 whenever they go online. In more
details
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,
users
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 usually do not have methods to confirm if the information is correct or not
,
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 and will critic
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 without any doubt.
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 statement can be true, but as long as
users
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 respect others both in reality and on
internet
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the internet
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, there will be no
people
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 to
opponent
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 them. Because of that, most
of
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people
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 prefer avoiding discussing
about
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sensitive topics
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 conflict and
use
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using
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 friendly words to chat. Taking all into consideration, the benefits of having more
friends
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 and building
good
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a good
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 reputation outweigh the
drawback
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drawbacks
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 of criticisms.
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,
people
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 should respect
rules
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the rules
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 of each community.
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, governments ought to restrict the laws about cyberattacks and untrue articles.

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task achievement
While the essay does address the topic, the response is not always fully extended or well supported. The ideas are somewhat clear but could benefit from more development and specific examples.
coherence cohesion
The essay has an acceptable logical structure, with paragraphs and some use of linking words. However, the introduction and conclusion could be more clearly defined and the argument more developed for greater clarity.

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

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