Nonverbis
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Let's consider IELTS essays.
Let the topic be: What are the pros and cons for children of watching television?
The textbook that I'm studying now suggests to mention in introduction what you are going to write an essay about.
Could you tell me whether the words "pros" and "cons" will be considered as repetition?
Let's have a look at a model assay. In this case the topic was about the advantages and disadvantages. And these words are used in the essay itself.
If it were at school where we ourselves wrote the topic every time, I would have considered it a repetition. I mean, of course, we were given the topic, but we copied it into our exercise books. It made the topic an integral part of our essays.
But in case of IELTS we are not copying the topic. It exists in the task, but as if it is in a parallel universe. If it is like that, then taking some words from the topic itself is not a repetition. And anyway, I feel these words as toxic. If I were in the shoes of the author of the book, I could easily substitute such words with synoyms.
Could you comment on that?
Let the topic be: What are the pros and cons for children of watching television?
The textbook that I'm studying now suggests to mention in introduction what you are going to write an essay about.
Could you tell me whether the words "pros" and "cons" will be considered as repetition?
Let's have a look at a model assay. In this case the topic was about the advantages and disadvantages. And these words are used in the essay itself.
If it were at school where we ourselves wrote the topic every time, I would have considered it a repetition. I mean, of course, we were given the topic, but we copied it into our exercise books. It made the topic an integral part of our essays.
But in case of IELTS we are not copying the topic. It exists in the task, but as if it is in a parallel universe. If it is like that, then taking some words from the topic itself is not a repetition. And anyway, I feel these words as toxic. If I were in the shoes of the author of the book, I could easily substitute such words with synoyms.
Could you comment on that?
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