Reasons People Resist Change and Why It Is Positive

Some people dislike changes in their society and in their own lives, and want things to stay the same.

Why do some people want things to stay the same?

Why should change be regarded as something positive?

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Question 1

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Response 01

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Essay · 247 words · 4 paragraphs · 17 comments

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Response 01
Estimated band5.5/ 9

Overall assessment

The response's strongest aspect is its well-developed explanation of why people resist change, supported by relevant examples. The main limitation is that the second question, why change should be seen as positive, receives almost no development and is compressed into a single concluding sentence, leaving the task only partially answered.

TR

Task Response

The response addresses only the first question in depth, while the second question about why change is positive is reduced to a single undeveloped concluding sentence, so the task is only partially covered.

5.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas are organised into clear paragraphs with mostly logical progression and appropriate linkers, but the abrupt conclusion leaves the argument unbalanced and 'love risks' conflicts with the explanation of stability's appeal.

6.0
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is generally adequate for the topic with some appropriate collocations such as 'feeling of security and stability', though there are spelling errors ('exampel', 'dijital', 'reguarded') and informal choices like 'not techy'.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

Sentence forms are varied but frequent grammatical errors occur, including 'Although its inevitability', 'resists', 'know to doing things' and 'which can leads', sometimes straining the reader.

5.0

What to work on next

Give the question about the positive value of change its own fully developed paragraph with explanations and examples instead of one closing sentence.

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