The idea of buiding A prposal to build a large shopping mall in my neighborhood never appeals to me. Judging from my personal experience, In my observation, those huge shopping centers often bring more chaos rather than peace and harmony in my their/the adjacent neighborhood. Moreover, what accompanied with shopping malls are is always insecurities (insecurity. Plural is not commonly used expression) and a high ratio rate in stealing theft, which would jeopardize my the common interest of the neighborhood. Although I can not deny shopping center’s effectiveness in providing that a shopping mall might provide the local residents with a few job opportunities job positions, in general I oppose the idea of building a new shopping mall in my community. Very good opening and clearly claim your stance; ratio is a fancier word, but not fit here; judging …. A bit awkward; my not correspond to the precedent expression “those huge…”; “are” to “is”, subject “what clause” and predicate/verb agreement; “jeopardize” and “neighborhood” not good collocation; One essential reason that I am against this idea (here the expression is a bit redundant. What I mean is you just mentioned that you don’t like to have a mall in your vicincity, so you really don’t necessarily need to repeat this point in just the following sentecne. Also, one+adj+noun is not a good expression, nor idiomatic. Maybe you could simply say” For one thing, or In the first place, or First…… ETS does not care much if you write this way.) is that new shopping malls are always the symbols of more noise and chaos. Any new shopping mall, would inevitably attract people from everywhere to it so that there would be a lot more people and traffic in our community, which would of course do harm to the environment. What can be foreseen as the output of the new shopping mall is there would be diverse noise, air pollution and traffic jams brought by cars. All those are probably what the residents here would not wish to see. Thus, building a new shopping center would not increase the welfare of the community but decrease it. For another thing, a large new shopping center, while attract (need a subjective or change the verb to participle) many customers, are also attractive to stealers. These criminal, although might be slight, would also weaken “threaten” the securities (security, not exchange/stocks) of the neighborhood. There have been some statistics (Some statistics) show that the neiborhoods near shopping malls are suffering more from threfts “theft” than those faraway from shopping malls. It is clearly that building a shopping mall in our neighborhood would do harm to this community which used to be peaceful. Moreover, building new shopping center would occupy open space in our community, which (this is not formal usage of English, and usavory to ETS. “Which” cannot refer to a whole sentence in formal writing.) might cause children and the seniors losing their space for playing games and doing exercises. In those open spaces, there have been plenty of trees and flowers and one can see children playing together freely, the elders sitting in outside for warm sunshine.(too many “There” sentences/clauses, which are good indicators of your lower register in English writing. Try to change these “there” clause to active sentences, or paraphrase them in a different way.) If those open spaces were converted into buildings with steel and glass(illogical), the surface of the open space of our community would become so cold that people would decrease their time spending outside, which would make residents here uncomfortable and unhappy. As I have mentioned in previous paragraphs, it is probably that the new shopping center would help more people in our community to get jobs, however, comparing with those disadvantages of a new shopping mall, it would be a wise decision that not building a shopping center in our communty.
What I feel from your sample is that you may need to streamline your thought, or the line of reasoning, throughout your essay. The problem is, in the body of your essay, that you apparently wrote a lot of sentences, but they are more or less repeating similar information without any further analysis. The normal argumentation may flow this way: we have a point of view to defend; we declare this stance in the beginning of the arguing by a thesis sentence; then we give more supportive evidences or logical reasonings. Throughout the reasoning, the thesis is repeated and thus strenthened, but we cannot bolster our viewpoint by repeat the similar clauses. |