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Wearing Western Clothes Instead of Traditional Dress

In many countries, people now wear western clothes such as suits and jeans rather than traditional clothing.

Is this a positive or negative development?

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Essay ideas: Wearing Western Clothes Instead of Traditional Dress

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

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Response 01

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Essay · 341 words · 4 paragraphs · 19 comments

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Response 01
Estimated band7.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response maintains a clear positive position and considers cultural and economic objections before presenting practical benefits, moving in a clear sequence from position to objections, benefits and conclusion. Some claims about fabrics, cultural loss and workplace clothing need tighter support. Agreement, article and clause errors, together with several imprecise expressions, also reduce accuracy.

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Task Response

The response gives a clear positive judgment and discusses cultural and economic objections. Practical reasons and examples are relevant, but claims about cultural disappearance and fabric performance are broad, and the workplace example needs a clearer link to the comparison with traditional dress.

7.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

The argument progresses from a position through objections and benefits to a conclusion, with each stage in its own paragraph and varied linking expressions. Some transitions and references are cumbersome, such as the spoken-style 'More on the practicality argument' and the loose 'This is compounded by'.

7.0
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is sufficiently flexible and precise, with natural expressions such as 'spell doom' and 'cultural identity', but occasional word-form and spelling errors, including 'wester look', limit full precision.

7.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

The response uses complex sentences, including relative and causal clauses, with generally understandable relationships. Accuracy is reduced by errors such as the former is referring to clothes, less of market, and the missing relative pronoun in blue collar workers wear.

7.0

What to work on next

Qualify the fabric claims and explain how the workplace example supports adopting Western rather than traditional clothing. Then check agreement, articles, relative clauses and the spelling of western.

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