Employment by Gender in Freedonia

The graphs below show the numbers of male and female workers in 1975 and 1995 in several employment sectors of the republic of Freedonia. Write a report for a university teacher describing the information shown.

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Response 01

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Response 01
Estimated band5.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The strongest aspect is the response's attempt to organise the report by sector and include an overview of broad trends. Its main limitation is the frequency of inaccurate or confusingly expressed data, which makes several descriptions unreliable and obscures the key comparisons between 1975 and 1995.

TA

Task Achievement

The report attempts all six sectors and identifies manufacturing and non-defence employment as broadly stable over time. It does not claim equal male and female manufacturing counts: it gives different figures for each. The real problems include inaccurate defence changes, unclear banking and communications comparisons, and a final male-majority claim that overlooks female majorities in 1995.

5.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

There is a visible progression from introduction to body paragraphs to an overview, but linking is mechanical and some sentences, such as the trade and defence descriptions, break down and confuse the reader.

5.5
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is sufficient to identify the sectors, but enrollment is inaccurate for employment and several descriptions are imprecise. 'Ladies dramatically growth' has an incorrect word form. Lakh is a legitimate unit equal to 100,000; it is not inherently a vocabulary error, although consistent units would make comparisons easier.

5.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A limited range of structures is used with frequent errors in verb forms, articles, and agreement, such as 'While 1975 it has half' and 'males was more working', which sometimes impede meaning.

5.0

What to work on next

Keep the valid comparison showing little change in manufacturing and non-defence employment. Correct the defence figures and state which sex each banking and communications figure describes. In the overview, identify women overtaking men in communications and wholesale/retail trade by 1995.

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