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Spending Public Money on Health Prevention Versus Treatment

Some people think it is more important to spend public money on promoting a healthy lifestyle in order to prevent illness than to spend it on the treatment for people who are already ill. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Essay ideas: Spending Public Money on Health Prevention Versus Treatment

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

9 ideas

Reasons to disagree

6 ideas

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Response 01

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Essay · 353 words · 1 paragraph · 10 comments

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Response 01
Estimated band5.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The strongest aspect is the writer's willingness to argue a moral position with an attempt at supporting examples, such as Stephen Hawking. The main limitation is that the argument remains confused and underdeveloped, with digressions about nature and frequently inaccurate wording that obscures the message.

TR

Task Response

The response addresses the topic and implies disagreement with neglecting ill people, but the position is not stated clearly, ideas drift into irrelevant claims about nature, and development is uneven with loosely connected examples.

5.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

There is an evident overall structure with introduction, body and conclusion, but progression is often unclear, links between ideas are mechanical, and some statements interrupt rather than advance the argument.

5.0
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary shows some range of topic-related terms, but word choice is frequently imprecise or erroneous, for example 'physic', 'this origin a great harm', and 'should have behaved well', reducing precision of meaning.

5.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A mix of simple and complex structures is attempted, but errors in verb form, agreement and sentence construction, such as 'considering' misuse and 'They should have behaved well', are frequent though meaning is often still recoverable.

5.0

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State a clear, direct position on the question in the introduction and build each paragraph around one developed, relevant supporting idea with accurate vocabulary.

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