Final Writing Task: A Persuasive Formal Essay

Your final writing task for the C1 course.

Notice

  • Choose one topic: Should algorithms be allowed to make high-stakes decisions (hiring, lending, sentencing)? Is technological progress always beneficial to society? Should governments regulate artificial intelligence more strictly?
  • Write a persuasive formal essay of 200-250 words using the structures from this course.

Rule

Your task: Write a persuasive formal essay (200–250 words) taking a clear position. Include a claim, evidence, a concession-refutation pair, and a strong conclusion. Use at least six different structures from across this course: for example inversion, the subjunctive, nominalisation, advanced linking, a rhetorical question, and appropriately formal register throughout.

Practice

  1. Planning line: which topic will you choose?
    Answer: Personal answer.
  2. List the six C1 structures you plan to include.
    Answer: Personal answer — e.g. inversion, subjunctive, nominalisation, advanced linking, rhetorical question, formal register.

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