Prison Versus Better Education to Solve Crime

Prison is the common way most countries try to solve the problem of crime. However, a more practical solution is to provide the public with a better education.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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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

5 ideas

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Response 01
Estimated band5.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response favours education overall and offers relevant ideas about rehabilitating offenders and teaching young people about the law. However, the introduction leaves the exact extent of agreement unclear, particularly when it calls both methods crucial. Frequent word-choice errors and faulty sentence construction obscure meaning, while broad examples and unexplained causal claims limit the development of the argument.

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Task Response

The response generally favours education and offers relevant rehabilitation and prevention ideas, but the introduction does not clearly establish the extent of agreement. Broad claims about all crime and compulsory law education are insufficiently explained.

5.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

There is a visible paragraph structure and some linking devices, but progression is mechanical and several sentences are internally incoherent, so the reader must work to follow the argument.

5.0
LR

Lexical Resource

The writer attempts ambitious vocabulary such as 'ostensible', 'plummet' and 'withstand the stated nation', but frequent word-choice and collocation errors reduce precision and sometimes distort meaning.

5.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A mix of complex structures is attempted, yet many sentences contain grammatical faults such as faulty subordination, missing articles and agreement errors, which regularly impede clarity.

5.0

What to work on next

Rewrite ideas in simpler, accurate sentences and proofread carefully to eliminate grammar and word-choice errors that currently obscure the message.

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