Nowadays more tasks at home and work are being performed by robots. Is this a negative or positive development?
Sample Response
It is becoming increasingly common for homeowners and businesses to use robots to deal with daily tasks. I believe this trend is wholly positive because it saves individuals time and allows businesses to better allocate resources.
Those who use various domestic robotic technologiesvarious advances in robotics in the home have more free time. Fully humanoid robots are rare but more and more families now use robotic vacuums such as the Roomba, mobile webcams for security surveillance, lawn care machines and devices that bridge the gap between robotics and artificial intelligence like Amazon Alexa and Google Home to make life easier. These devices save a lot of time for their users that can be better invested in hobbies, exercise, family, entertainment, and spending time with your significant other.
In the past, a sizeable percentage of operating budgets went to labour, butlabour but as this proportion declinesthis number begins to dwindle we will see a corresponding increase in investmenta concomitant rise in investiture in areas like research and development. Large companies such as Amazon, Google, Apple and automobile manufacturers can now invest in developing artificial intelligence, improving existing products, making safer cars, and so on. Over time, these benefits will add up to hasten both the pace of technological development and the speed with which new advances reach consumers. Robots will replace jobs involving manual labourjobs reliant on manual labour and redirect the money saveddivert those wasted dollars to more important, creative areas that elevate human endeavours.
The large scale adoption of robotics bodes well for the future as it will streamline tasks both at home and at workstreamline both home and work. There are looming risks related to massive unemployment, butunemployment but these can be mitigated with governmental regulation and by encouraging ethical corporate practices.
Why this response received Band 8.0
The response gives a clear, well-developed positive position, supported by distinct benefits for households and businesses and organised with strong progression. Its main limitation is occasional imprecision or overstatement, especially in describing labour spending as wasted and treating smart devices as robots, while the unemployment counterpoint is only briefly handled. The highest-priority improvement is to qualify these claims and integrate the main risk more fully into the argument.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
The prompt is answered directly with a clear position and two relevant, well-developed benefits, plus brief recognition of a major risk.
Integrate the unemployment concern more fully and qualify broad claims about which technologies count as robots.
Coherence and Cohesion
The essay has a clear progression from domestic benefits to workplace effects, with cohesive links that rarely draw attention to themselves.
Make the final paragraph synthesize the two main benefits more explicitly rather than adding a largely undeveloped caveat.
Lexical Resource
A wide and precise vocabulary supports fluent discussion, despite a few overstated or less natural choices such as investiture and wasted dollars.
Prefer neutral, exact wording when describing labour costs and corporate investment to preserve an appropriately academic tone.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A broad range of complex structures is handled accurately, with only minor lapses that do not impede communication.
Maintain consistent pronoun perspective and punctuate longer coordinated sentences carefully to sharpen control further.
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IELTS Writing Task 2
Nowadays more tasks at home and work are being performed by robots. Is this a negative or positive development?
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