Rural to Urban Migration: Positive or Negative Development

In many countries around the world, rural people are moving to cities, so the population in the countryside is decreasing.

Do you think this is a positive or a negative development?

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WhyThis is aPositive or negative essay — it asks why a trend is happening and whether it is good or bad.

SoWe split the ideas intoPositive(why it is good)andNegative(why it is bad).

Positive

5 ideas

Negative

7 ideas

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Essay · 290 words · 1 paragraph · 20 comments

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Response 01
Estimated band6.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The strongest aspect is the clear, consistent negative position supported by relevant ideas about rural decline and urban pressure, with some balance acknowledged. The main limitation is frequent grammatical and word-choice errors, such as subject-verb agreement and 'loosing' and 'weeks', that repeatedly strain accuracy even though meaning generally survives.

TR

Task Response

The response addresses the question with a clear negative position, develops relevant main ideas about rural decline and urban strain, and briefly acknowledges benefits, though support is sometimes repetitive and underdeveloped.

6.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas are organised into clear paragraphs with a logical progression, but linking is often mechanical or faulty, with expressions like 'thats why' and some repetition of the same economic point.

6.0
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is adequate for the task with some appropriate items such as 'urban infrastructure' and 'standard of living', but errors like 'loosing', 'weeks' for 'weakens', and imprecise phrasing limit precision.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A mix of simple and complex structures is attempted, but frequent errors in subject-verb agreement, pronoun use, and article choice repeatedly reduce accuracy although the meaning remains mostly recoverable.

5.5

What to work on next

Focus on eliminating subject-verb agreement errors and repeated word-choice mistakes through careful proofreading, since clearer sentence control would let the strong ideas stand out.

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