Stay-at-Home Fathers and Working Mothers

These days more fathers stay at home and take care of their children while mothers go out to work.

What could be the reasons for this? Is it a positive or 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 intoReasons(why it is happening),Positive(why it is good)andNegative(why it is bad).

Reasons

7 ideas

Positive

9 ideas

Negative

8 ideas

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Response 01

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Essay · 267 words · 4 paragraphs · 19 comments

Score details

Response 01
Estimated band6.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response addresses both parts of the task and maintains a clear position that the trend is negative, with a logical four-paragraph structure. However, the supporting ideas are underdeveloped and partly unconvincing, relying on stereotypes and a garbled reference to research, while grammar errors recur throughout and occasionally obscure meaning.

TR

Task Response

Both questions are addressed with a clear position and relevant main ideas, but the development is uneven and the support for the negative view is limited and partly unconvincing.

6.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

The essay has a clear overall progression with logical paragraphing and linking devices, though some referencing and connections within sentences are inaccurate or strained.

6.0
LR

Lexical Resource

An adequate range of vocabulary is used for the topic, with some appropriate collocations, but there are noticeable word-choice and word-form errors such as 'a structure change' and 'completely contrary development'.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A mix of simple and complex sentence forms is attempted, but errors in agreement, verb patterns, and article use are frequent, though meaning is generally still recoverable.

6.0

What to work on next

Develop each main idea more fully with clearer, well-expressed evidence, and proofread to remove recurring grammatical errors such as subject-verb agreement and verb pattern mistakes.

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