Hi Ramesh789

Thanks for your comment - yes, there is a problem with the question.

Is the topic a simple question about the advantages and disadvantages of email, or is a more difficult question about the effect on our professional and social communication?

These are two very different questions.

A lot of candidates for IELTS practice by doing advantage/disadvantage essays, and that's useful, but it can have the effect on some IELTS candidates of thinking that all the essays are advantage/disadvantage.

I don't know where this question came from and how accurate it is. It's always a big problem when we are getting the questions second-hand and relying on people's memory.

So if you want to try, here are the two quite different questions again:

Question 1: interesting and new:

1. Email has had a huge impact on professional and social communication. Has this impact on communication been negative or positive?

Question 2: Very familiar question -  done a thousand times

2. Email has had a huge impact our lives, but this impact has been negative as well as positive. Do the advantages of using email outweigh the advantages?

Ramesh, another point...

Since we are talking about emails, Ramesh, and not telegrams, can I make one small point... it's great to have you here commenting, but a few extra words would help the user. There are FIVE articles ('the'/'a') missing from your comment!

I know it's not a formal piece of writing, but since it's an issue in your essays,  we can use the opportunity to practice using articles before every noun that needs them!

It's not the old days where we had to pay for every word in a telegram - a few articles and prepositions will make your message flow more smoothly and make it easier for the recipient to understand.

Thanks again for making us think about the question.

Hi Madinarafi and thanks for the essay.

It's fine, as an essay - lots of examples, not too many mistakes, and a clear layout. But does it answer the question?

In my answer to Ramesh, I said much of his essay did not answer the question. The problem was with the essay topic having too many questions. Here they are again:

Question 1: an interesting new topic:

1. Email has had a huge impact on professional and social communication. Has this impact on communication been negative or positive?

Question 2: Very familiar question -  done a thousand times

2. Email has had a huge impact our lives, but this impact has been negative as well as positive. Do the advantages of using email outweigh the advantages?

You've answered Question 2.

That's fine, and you've done a fine job, but it's not the same question Ramesh answered. Make sure when you see the question in the exam that you read it very carefully. It's probably not going to be a topic you've written about before. There will be a little twist or something different. Not a trick: the IELTS examiners are not trying to foorl or trick you, but just a different angle.

Word Choice/Word Form/Usage

• Inevitable → unavoidable
• Vivid → clear
• Few → a few

Coherence /Logic/Pronoun Reference

• Due to the vast knowledge in computers and technologies, many people misuse it to hack the emails → Because most people don't know enough about computer security, some hackers can gain access to email accounts or databases.

Generic sentence

You could use this sentence in a million essays:

Even though there are certain limitations in using it the positive aspect of it ranks higher.

So, would you like to try the other topic of the impact on communication? More difficult!