Some people say that in our modern age, it is unnecessary to teach children about the skills of handwriting. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Sample Response
Handwriting skills involve craftsmanship and the artistic presentation of letterscraftsmanship and an artistic way of presenting letters, and require a great deal of time and practice. Since students are more likely to type rather than write on paper for the rest of their liveslife, I do not believe that this skill is relevantprevalent in this modern era in which computers are used in both academic and professional settingswhere computers are used both in the academic and professional arenas. To begin with, neat handwriting was a criterion for academic success in the past, but no longer in this digital erabut not anymore in this digital era. Assignments, classwork, tests and other school activities are mostly done on computers and this is why a student needs to grasp the skills of computing and typing more than presenting immaculate letter formations on paper. For exampleTo illustrate an example, I submitted three assignments during my last term and all of them were submitted to my teachers by emailsubmitted to my teachers' emails, and none was handwrittennot a single one was handwritten. Besides, time invested in developing legible handwritinghoning excellent handwriting can be better used to masterutilised in mastering more important subjects and skills. Moreover, the use of computers and the Internet in offices is a common trend. An employee is expected to be a proficient computer useran expert computer user, and immaculate handwriting is not required for employment at a companyhandwriting is not a requirement to be hired by a company. ConsequentlyIronically, better penmanship has little value in a world surrounded by technology. Considering the future, as computers become more prevalentwhen computers would be more predominant, parents and teachers should focus more on teaching technological skills to studentsteaching technology to students than teaching them how to form lettersinstructing how much a letter should be stressed or curved! To conclude, academic activities and professional needs, in this era of technology, compel students to have computer skillshave skills in computers and this is why it would be more practical to enhance their technical skills rather than handwriting skills, whichhandwriting skills- which have already become less important.
Why this response received Band 7.0
The response gives a clear, sustained position and develops it with relevant academic and workplace examples, while vocabulary and sentence structures are varied and generally well controlled. The main limitation is that the entire argument appears as one paragraph, which weakens the visible organisation, and a few expressions are awkward. The highest priority is to divide the reasoning into purposeful paragraphs and refine occasional collocations.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
A clear position is maintained and supported with relevant, well-extended reasons from education and employment.
Deepen the argument by acknowledging a limited continuing use for handwriting before explaining why it should receive less teaching time.
Coherence and Cohesion
Ideas progress logically and cohesive devices guide the reader, but the absence of paragraph breaks weakens overall organisation.
Separate the introduction, academic argument, workplace argument, and conclusion into distinct purposeful paragraphs.
Lexical Resource
Vocabulary is varied and often precise, with only occasional awkward collocations or slightly unsuitable word choices.
Refine phrases such as illustrate an example and teach technology into more natural academic formulations.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A wide range of complex structures is used accurately, with only minor agreement, punctuation, and modal-choice lapses.
Polish pronoun agreement and future modal choices, and avoid unnecessary emphatic punctuation in formal writing.
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IELTS Writing Task 2
Some people say that in our modern age, it is unnecessary to teach children about the skills of handwriting. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
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