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IELTS Essay: Machines are more and more used in modern society. Do you think the negative ...

Prompt

Machines are more and more used in modern society. Do you think the negative influences outweigh the positive ones on individual and society?

#automation impact#machine dependency#social effects#labor displacement#industrial transformation

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Band 7 → 9 — Band 7 discusses pros and cons; Band 9 weighs them with evidence (e.g., productivity gains vs wage stagnation), acknowledges sectoral variation, and examines how policy shapes net outcome.

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Key concepts in this essay

distributional equity vs aggregate efficiency
aggregate impact measurement
differential effects across sectors and populations
adaptation and policy responses

Pitfalls the model essay avoids

Listing positives (efficiency, productivity) and negatives (job loss, deskilling) without weighing them or providing evidence that one outweighs the other
Conflating different machines with different impacts (medical devices vs factory robots have very different social effects) without differentiation
Failing to address 'on individual and society'—treating these as the same when impacts differ across groups

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