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numissh   
Jul 3, 2017
Writing Feedback / The Tabard Towers Theme Park - IELTS Writing Task 1 Sample [6]

Hello everyone, can someone please help me mastered IELTS Writing Task 1 by commenting on my essay below?
I really appreciate your help. Thank you very much! :)

Popularity of a theme park



(1st Paragraph)
The graph illustrates the number of visitors (in thousands) visited the Tabard Towers Theme Park throughout the whole year which is counted per months. Overall, this park has an interesting variation which includes an erratic fluctuation in the middle year and gradual pattern in several first and last months.

(2nd Paragraph)
The Tabard Towers Theme Park has a gradual increase of visitors since the beginning of the year until May from 30000 to 70000 visitors. Later, the visitors number went up and down wildly with an upward trend towards the end of the year. In June, it has more than 50% sharp drop to 20000 visitors before shooting up to hit 120000 mark in the next month, almost doubled the visitors two months ago. The park's visitor fell back to slightly under 80000 in August and bounce back to almost 140000 visitors in September. After that, it plummeted down periodically to 80000 visitors in December where it reaches over 250% visitors since January.

(161 words)



  • This is the graph that i need to describe.
numissh   
Jul 3, 2017
Scholarship / Constant Progress on Maturing and Returning the Favor - Essay for Scholarship Application [4]

Hi! this is such an inspiring essay. However, there are few things that i need to highlight.

1) "Although my conception of success is fluid and continuous".
Actually i think you might want to have another term to replace this fluid thing. Idk with others, but for me, i was frowned for a second finding a meaning of this sentence. But, if you consider this to be right, stick with your gut :)

2) "...were the first phase of success and maturing for me"
I think you should add in "process" after maturing, therefore it would be "maturing process for me".

3) "...the first thing I deemed a milestone".
I think you should write one of this two sentence below.
>> The first thing I deemed to be a milestone
>> The first thing I considered a milestone

4) I've been reading some advice on how to produce a good essay. I found out that some scholarship committees often refuse to read the whole essay. Therefore it might be good for you to point out the most important thing in the essay or in a paragraph by making it bold or italic or whatever it takes to make your judges understand the main purpose of your essay. For example, you might want to bold this.

>> "I believe, success is a moment of satisfaction and gratitude for me and my mother, and a series of process of continual growth to be a better person of myself."

>> "...my greatest success in life is a constant work in progress"

In the end, it's still up to you. I am sorry if i gave you wrong information. Good luck with your application!
numissh   
Jul 4, 2017
Undergraduate / Personal Statement; Tell us more about you and why you are considering VCU/ International Transfer [6]

Hi Babbie!
You have the same problem as mine when i tried to create my first ever personal statement. You tend to focus on active sentences by continuously adding "I" on your essay. My proofreader said that i should avoid that behavior because it's improper for a personal statement (and most essays) and makes my essay sounds informal. I think you should do that too. Try to add in the "I" word once or twice a paragraph, and write sentences in a passive form.

Also, you might want to write a strong first sentence that will drive all your examiner's attention to your essay, and makes them curious about what content do you propose. For example "Going through difficult past experiences has giving me a strong motivation to help educating young people in Ghana", or you could add in a quote from respectable people which is related to your story. Just be creative :)

I am sorry that I could not comment on your content or structure as i am still learning on those too. But i hope some people here will be able to give a great feedback on this essay.

Good luck on your application!
numissh   
Jul 4, 2017
Writing Feedback / People are leaveing their home countries to seek a better life [3]

Hello everyone, can someone please help me mastered IELTS Writing Task 2 by commenting on my essay below?
I really appreciate your help. Thank you very much! :)

The question:
More and more qualified people are moving from poor to rich countries to fill vacancies in specialist areas like engineering, computing, and medicine. Some people believe that by encouraging the movement of such people rich countries are stealing from poor countries. Others feel that this is only part of the natural movement of workers around the world.

> What is you opinion?
> Do you think rich countries should pay poorer countries for the people they encourage to come?
> What other measures could rich countries take to encourage qualified people to stay and help develop their own countries?

Big migrations to richer countries



My essay:
(1st paragraph)
It has been widely acceptable for people to leave their home countries to seek better living, especially from poor to rich countries. At first, this might be a great development as they will come back to their countries and help rebuild the establishments. But they didn't come back and prefer to stay there, and later this is becoming everybody's problems. In my opinion, to encourage people to come back and help develop their country is not only poor country's job, but also everybody's job, including rich countries.

(2nd paragraph)
Lacks of qualified people from poor countries could resulting in the shortage of establishments and later end up in economical downgrade. This might lead to the downfall of the countries and they will need support from every inch of the world. If this happens, money can only help a little because although they have all the resources, it will be nothing if the professionals are all gone. In such condition, there should be any help not only from their own qualified people, but also from the scholar's host rich countries.

(3rd paragraph)
Rich countries, on the other hand, have more power than they realize to build a country from ashes. In terms of helping poor countries, these countries could help making a policy related to the development of these regions. For example, there could be an economic treaty where several qualified people will be trained and work in one of rich countries and later come back to develop the establishment in their home countries. Gradually, there should be many more people who will contribute to their poor nation and make them rise.

(4th paragraph)
To conclude, several ways could be taken into account when we commit to help poor countries rise. Despite giving aids for them, one of the efforts is getting support from rich countries through trainings and workshops conducted in there for the scholars of the poor nations. Remember, young people is the greatest assets for the nations, therefore, we should treasure them.

(328 words)
numissh   
Jul 6, 2017
Writing Feedback / People are leaveing their home countries to seek a better life [3]

@Holt
I see, thank you very much for pointing out my mistakes. In the meantime, I tried to remake the first paragraph, I hope you can help me improve this. I'll try to make another full essay once i got the first paragraph right.

(1st Paragraph - remake)
There have been big migrations from poor to rich countries to seek better occupation. While some people believe that this is a normal phenomenon as people tries to seek experiences outside their comfort areas, others seeing this as a problem due to lack of qualified people in poorer countries. From my perspective, people should expand their wings on gaining new experiences as well as coming back to develop their home countries. To encourage these, several ways could be done and certainly not only poor countries job, but also rich countries.

Is there any improvement?
numissh   
Jul 7, 2017
Writing Feedback / The Tabard Towers Theme Park - IELTS Writing Task 1 Sample [6]

@Holt
Hi, I did a remake on the essay. Could you please help me check on this? Thank you in advance. I really appreciate your help.

(1st Paragraph)
The graph illustrates the number of visitors (in thousands) who are visiting The Tabard Towers Theme Park throughout the whole year which is counted per months. Overall, the park has an interesting variation which consists of an increasing trend until the end of third quarter, followed by a gradual decline in the last quarter. However, although the first and last quarter have steady up and down marks, the middle two quarters are interesting because they have erratic fluctuations.

(2nd Paragraph)
Starting from January, the park gained a good momentum as it slowly rises from 30000 to 40000 visitors until March. It was then followed by a steady increase to almost doubling up to 80000 people in May. From this point, the erratic fluctuation started where the park reached its lowest point in June.

(3rd Paragraph)
In July, the visitors were shooting up again to hit 120000 mark, almost four times higher than the first month. The numbers decreased sharply to slightly under 80000 in August before rocketing to almost 140000 in the next month. After reached the peak, the park's visitor fell back steadily to 80000 people by decreasing up to 20000 visitors a month until December.



  • Tabard Tower Theme Park
numissh   
Jul 7, 2017
Letters / You would like to participate in a work-related seminar in another country. The letter in this case. [5]

Hi Hessen! This is my corrections! Please correct me if i'm wrong :)

Dear Sir/ Madam

... in London next week, the 13th January about new techniques ...

i think you might want to write it like this, it's more eye catchy >> held in London next week (the 13th January) about new techniques

I worked as a production ...
... years now, I am was always curious about updating encouraging myself to be updated with the most ...
So Therefore, I am interested in (...) and learn the new techniques in ...

It would be appreciated I really appreciated it if you would tell (...) will be held (as @phantrung said, you've already mentioned the date above, so why bother asking again?). Also, I need to know I am humbly asking you about the seminar program (...) accommodation that you provided for participants. and the last question would be about the cost of registering for the seminar. (i think you need to choose more polite sentence to end this paragraph)

I am looking forward to hearing ...
numissh   
Jul 7, 2017
Student Talk / What is ielts writing? I am confused. [27]

Hi @Seba0817

Nice to meet you! I am now in progress of studying IELTS too. Here's my tips.
I believe that you should divide the question categories for task 1 and task 2. Learn the structure. After that, you can manage to write some essays on each categories. Remember the structure, conjunctions, and sentence type for each type. At the test day, you should just simply copy that!

Above all, you should practice. Remember that practice makes perfect! :)
numissh   
Jul 8, 2017
Writing Feedback / The Tabard Towers Theme Park - IELTS Writing Task 1 Sample [6]

Hi @DoctorWho, thank you very much for the correction!

I hope you dont mind if i bother you again. Do you think what range of tenses should i use while describing this graph? I found out that different resource giving me different perspective too. Therefore, i am kind of confused about this grammar thing.

Thank you very much :)
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