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Sports as a Big Business with High Earnings

Nowadays, sports is a big business with high earnings for professional sports people and companies involved both financially and in other ways. Is this a positive or negative development for sports?

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Essay ideas: Sports as a Big Business with High Earnings

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

2 ideas

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Response 01

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Essay · 311 words · 4 paragraphs · 11 comments

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Response 01
Estimated band7.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response presents a clear positive position and develops it through financial motivation and investment in training, with examples from Brazil and Vietnam. Ideas generally progress logically, although the examples sometimes assert causal links too confidently. Wider participation is already discussed in the body, but the conclusion adds an undeveloped health benefit. Some collocations and unclear references also reduce precision, particularly in the discussion of advertising and its audience.

TR

Task Response

The essay clearly supports commercialisation through motivation and training investment. The Brazil example needs a more qualified causal claim; participation is discussed in the body, but the conclusion adds an undeveloped health benefit.

7.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Clear paragraphs and signposts guide the argument from athlete motivation to business investment. The long investment sentence and shifting references to the team, players, companies and advertisements occasionally make connections less immediate.

7.0
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is sufficiently flexible and precise for the topic, including items like lucrative, allocate, and financial incentives, with occasional slightly awkward or inaccurate phrasing.

7.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A variety of complex structures, including conditionals and relative clauses, is used with generally good control, and errors are minor and rarely impede meaning.

7.0

What to work on next

Keep the conclusion focused on motivation, training and participation already discussed. Qualify the claim that salaries explain championship success, and clarify how advertising-led interest could lead to talent development.

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