News editors decide what to broadcast on television and what to print in newspapers. What factors do you think influence these decisions? Do we become used to bad news? Would it be better if more good news was reported?
Sample Response
Topic: News editors decide what to broadcast on television what to print in newspapers. What factors do you think influence this decision? Do we become used to bad news? Would it be better if more good news was reported? It is true that the decision of a news editordecision of news editor is the final decision about the news reportfinal judgment of the news report, which is broadcastbroadcasted through mediato our media like television and newspapersnewspaper. This is certainly true that there are a number of factors that always affect to adopt these decisions. However, it can be argued that good news may bring peace and happiness of a nation. There are several factors that act as a precursor of the news editor that influence them to take decisions what to broadcast or print to their media. Firstly, perhaps most news editors want to increase their newspaper salesincrease the selling of their newspapers in order to rapidly increase their profitsrapidly rise up their profit. Secondly, popularity and news accuracypopularity and true news are other significant factors, which influence the news editors to make a decision. Finally, some news editors inof developing countries are influenced by governmentsaffected by the political governments to take a decision about their news report. Recently, we see that many newspapers and televisions channels are publishing bad news. For example, many media, NTV and BTV in particular in Bangladesh, are always broadcasting about the lifestyle of celebrities, which is neither informative nor important. Moreover, this type of news harms adults' livesspoils the life of an adult person. If the media provides positive educational and scientific newsgood news such as educational, scientific and so on, this can motivate young peoplethese can motivate the younger to gainachieve more knowledge. This could result in significant benefits for a nationthe immense advantage of a nation. In conclusion, while news editors are inspired by the several factors to make a decision about a news report, it can be argued that good news is more indispensable than bad news. Therefore, news editorseditor should broadcast and print such type of news, which can bring many benefits to human beingsbenefits to the human being.
Why this response received Band 5.5
The essay’s strongest feature is its identification of several plausible editorial influences and its clear support for more educational and scientific reporting. Its main limitation is incomplete task coverage: it never explains whether people become accustomed to bad news, and its celebrity example is not clearly connected to that question; the highest-priority improvement is to answer each of the three questions in a separate, focused section.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
The response discusses editorial factors and argues for more good news, but it does not answer whether audiences become used to bad news and some support is only loosely relevant.
Add a direct paragraph explaining habituation to repeated negative reporting and its consequences for attention, emotion, or public perception.
Coherence and Cohesion
The response has an identifiable introduction, sequence of factors, and conclusion, but copied task wording, one-block presentation, and mechanical listing weaken progression.
Use separate paragraphs for editorial influences, habituation to bad news, and the case for more positive reporting.
Lexical Resource
Some topic vocabulary is present, but inaccurate choices such as “precursor of the news editor,” “increase the selling,” and “immense advantage” limit precision.
Use “influence editorial decisions,” “increase circulation,” “political pressure,” and “benefit society.”
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Frequent errors in agreement, articles, prepositions, plurals, and relative clauses sometimes make the argument difficult to follow.
Write shorter sentences and check forms such as “editors make,” “television channels,” “young people,” and “news that can bring benefits.”
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IELTS Writing Task 2
News editors decide what to broadcast on television and what to print in newspapers. What factors do you think influence these decisions? Do we become used to bad news? Would it be better if more good news was reported?
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