Increasing Fuel Cost to Solve Environmental Problems

The best way to solve the world’s environmental problems is to increase the cost of fuel. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Essay ideas: Increasing Fuel Cost to Solve Environmental Problems

WhyThis is anOpinion essay — it asks whether you agree or disagree with a statement.

SoWe split the ideas intoReasons to agree(supports the statement)andReasons to disagree(argues against it).

Reasons to agree

3 ideas

Reasons to disagree

8 ideas

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Essay · 290 words · 4 paragraphs · 16 comments

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Response 01
Estimated band7.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response presents a clear position against fuel pricing as a sole solution and supports it with relevant reasons and concrete examples of alternative energy. Development is sound but occasionally repetitive, and a handful of awkward collocations and slips slightly reduce precision.

TR

Task Response

The position is clear and consistently maintained, with relevant main ideas and supporting examples such as hybrid cars and renewable power, though some arguments are more asserted than fully developed.

7.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas are organised into logical paragraphs with generally clear progression, but cohesion is at times mechanical and repetition, including the duplicated phrase 'in energy', weakens flow locally.

6.5
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is sufficiently flexible for the topic with appropriate items like 'greenhouse gas emissions' and 'alternative resources', despite occasional awkward collocations such as 'increasing the fuel expense'.

7.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A variety of complex structures, including conditionals and relative clauses, is used with generally good control; errors are minor and rarely impede meaning.

7.0

What to work on next

Deepen the analysis by explaining why alternatives are more effective than pricing rather than restating the same point, and polish collocations such as 'fuel expense' and 'efficiency in energy production'.

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