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Preventing Animal Species Extinction as a Natural Process

It is a natural process for animal species to become extinct (e.g dinosaurs, dodos, etc.). There is no reason why people should try to prevent this from happening.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Essay ideas: Preventing Animal Species Extinction as a Natural Process

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

5 ideas

Reasons to disagree

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Response 01

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Response 01
Estimated band6.5/ 9

Overall assessment

The response intends to disagree with non-intervention and offers relevant discussion of deforestation, pollution and conservation. However, its thesis confuses reasons for extinction with reasons to prevent it. Unclear sentence construction and word choice sometimes obscure meaning, while the proposed actions and the conclusion’s health claims need more precise explanation and support.

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Task Response

The response intends to reject non-intervention and gives relevant examples of deforestation and pollution. However, the thesis confuses causes of extinction with reasons to prevent it, and the proposed actions and claimed health benefits need clearer explanation.

7.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

The argument progresses broadly clearly across paragraphs, but cohesion is at times mechanical or faulty, with linkers like 'To continue' and 'So the aforementioned reasons' connecting ideas imprecisely.

6.0
LR

Lexical Resource

There is an attempt at less common vocabulary such as 'pertinent', 'elucidate' and 'biodiversity', but word choice is sometimes awkward or inaccurate, as in 'species that are getting extinct are naturally with them' and 'to low carbon emission'.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

The response attempts varied complex sentences, but incomplete verb patterns and faulty clause construction sometimes obscure the meaning. Examples include “people ought to do”, “to low carbon emission” and “realize to save”.

6.0

What to work on next

Refine sentence construction and word choice so that ideas such as human-caused extinction and proposed remedies are expressed accurately rather than through imprecise or forced vocabulary.

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