Advertising Products as New: Causes and Effects

In their advertising, businesses nowadays usually emphasise that their products are new in some way.

Why is this? Do you think it is a positive or negative development?

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WhyThis is aPositive or negative essay — it asks why a trend is happening and whether it is good or bad.

SoWe split the ideas intoReasons(why it is happening),Positive(why it is good)andNegative(why it is bad).

Reasons

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Positive

4 ideas

Negative

5 ideas

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Response 01

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Essay · 312 words · 4 paragraphs · 11 comments

Score details

Response 01
Estimated band6.5/ 9

Overall assessment

The response clearly answers both parts of the question, offering a plausible explanation for novelty-focused advertising and a consistent, if somewhat qualified, positive stance supported by the Apple example. The main limitations are imprecise wording and occasional grammatical slips, along with a conclusion that hedges the position rather than consolidating it.

TR

Task Response

The response addresses both questions, presents a clear positive position, and develops it with a relevant example, though the concluding hedge and unevenly weighed benefits slightly limit full development.

6.5
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas are arranged in a broadly logical progression with functional paragraphing, but cohesion is occasionally mechanical and a sentence fragment disrupts the flow.

6.5
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is adequate for the topic with some natural phrases, yet imprecise usage such as 'fall back', 'tags', and 'tricked into this belief' reduces precision.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A mix of simple and complex structures is used with generally clear meaning, but errors including a sentence fragment and inconsistent articles and agreement are noticeable.

6.0

What to work on next

Refine word choice and collocations, and state the final position more decisively with balanced development of its benefits and drawbacks.

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