Hi everyone. I'm not sure this is the right place to ask, but I am studying for my IELTS exams and I'd like to have a feedback on my writing papers. Can anyone read these and give me comments, opinions and a rough band score? Thank you very much!
TASK 1 The charts below show information on crime in the UK for 2002. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below. /
This report describes two charts showing informations on crime for the year 2002. The relationship between age and crime is shown in the first graph, while the pie chart gives percentages of crimes of different types. Crime rates in young age, which are practically zero in children younger than 8 years, begin to slowly increase from 8 to 12 years, reaching about 4%. The graph than shows a dramatic increase of crime rates among teenagers, with peaks of 70% at the age of 16 and of 80% at the age of 20. After this maximum, the rate quickly drops to 20% at the age of 28 and then decreases more slowly until the about 10% at 48 year, remaining quite steady until 60 years. The second chart shows that violent crimes represent the majority of crimes in UK (almost half of the total crimes), followed by property and drug crimes (23% and 22% respectively). Finally, 9% of the crimes in UK are related to public order. This ends my report. TASK 2 With the rise in popularity of the internet, newspapers will soon become a thing of the past. To what extent do you agree or disagree? In recent years, we have assisted to a quick and large expansion of new technologies, which has brought radical changes in our daily life, but also in well-established sectors of public and social life. Communications and media are among those sectors in which this revolution is more evident, and yet more debated. In the last century, newspapers have been the most long-lived and diffused medium of information, resisting the advent of radio and television. Written and printed in the early hours of the day, they were available in the morning with “today’s news”. But the internet has revolutionised our idea of time and the management of day hours. Becoming progressively used to real-time communications, our need for speed has increased. This includes receiving informations as quickly as possible, and continuously: until a few years ago, even after listening to the news on television, we thought that it was just natural to wait until the next morning to get details and opinions about them. The internet not only satisfies this need a lot quickier than newspapers, but it makes a larger quantity of information available to the reader. Even more importantly, the internet has introduced the idea of interactivity, the possibility of sharing and commenting contents, which has made the reader an active participant in the information world. Lastly, economical impact has to be considered: sharing news and information only on the web will make it possible to reduce printing and transportation costs, not to mention the consequent environmental advantages. In conclusion, I strongly think that in a close future newspapers will become obsolete in favour of new technologies media.
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