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Writing Part 2 Review
W h a t t o e x p e c t i n t h e e x a m
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• In Writing Part 2, you might have the opportunity to write a review. This might be of
a book, film, TV series, play, or exhibition but could also be of an event, product or
service. It should be between 280–320 words in length.
Pay close attention to what type of publication you are writing for, as this will tell you
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who the target reader is and what register and language you should use. It can also
tell you what type of information to include.
• An effective review goes beyond general description or narration. You are expected to
evaluate your subject, for example, by discussing its strengths and weaknesses.
1 S P E A K Work in pairs. Read these Writing Part 2 instructions. Which app would you https://english0905.com/private/
choose to review? Why?
A website called Tech for Today is preparing a newsletter about apps. You decide to
submit a review of an app you have recently downloaded to either your smartphone
or tablet. In your review, you should briefly describe what the app is for and how
useful it is. You should also evaluate the importance of apps in contemporary society.
2 Read the model review. Does the writer evaluate, rather than just describe, the app?
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Frustrated with my current email app, I went looking for a new one and found Flow, which tries to distinguish
itself to more traditional apps by presenting emails as chats. The idea intrigued me, so I thought I’d give it a try.
At first, I was smitten. Flow hides most of the extraneous information that accompanies emails and presents
them in bubbles, similar from messaging apps. It also allows you to organise your email according to subject or
people. This is (1) pa handy for tracking long email threads. Just tap in a single email and you can
easily scroll through six months of correspondence with one client. What’s more, the app (2) au
categorises emails into ‘priority’ and ‘other’. The app’s AI is (3) ex good at this.
Despite my initial enthusiasm, Flow soon got at my nerves because it had so many usability problems.
The forward button is (4) fi difficult to find, and the interface makes it far too easy to
(5) in delete email threads – or indeed, all emails from a single sender. But the big problem is that
Flow does a poor job to handling multiple accounts. Its slick organisation quickly breaks down when the same
person writes to more than one of your accounts. Setting up multiple calendars with Flow is also problematic.
When I finally got fed up and deleted Flow, a strange thing happened. I started only checking my email by my
computer and I loved it. The root of my frustrations with mobile email apps, it turns out, is that a phone is an
atrocious place to deal with email. Flow is trying to solve a problem of its own invention, which I think is true
from many apps these days. Were it less aggravating to check email on a phone, you wouldn’t need a fancy app
for it. So, before you download the latest app, consider on a moment the old-fashioned way of doing something.
It might be much better.
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