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Inadequate Writing (Essay 064) Comments

"Why People Don't Help in a Crisis"

According to Darley and Lazane people do not help in a crisis situation each other because of many reasons. In some cases people ignore to help. They just do not pay attention. The others continued to stare and unable to turn away do not do anything. I some cases bystander has to understand and notice that something is happening but considering a bad manner to look closely and to stare, thinking about respect the privacy of others, people just close their eyes and ears to avoid staring and pass around. Very often peoples’ behavior shaped by action of crowd.

People do not care, It is not their own problem it someone in distress. They forgot that each of them could be in that situation. And what they would think then "I need help, I distressed, why no one is going to help me? Why people do not pay attention and just pass around?" Thinking of that we have the other side of view.

This essay is seriously inadequate as a response to the passage and the essay topic. Paragraph one presents Darley and Latané’s ideas as if they were primarily concerned with explaining why different groups of bystanders remain aloof rather than with explaining the process of deciding to help that each bystander must go through. (This presentation gains much of the minimal coherence it has through its borrowing of phrases from the passage, phrases like "notice that something is happening" and "respect the privacy of others.") The second paragraph presents what the writer calls "the other side of view," asking whether people wouldn’t want to be helped if they were in distress. It does not discuss examples to help us see whether Darley and Latané’s ideas "explain--or justify" the actions of specific bystanders.

The language of this response is very limited. Besides being very brief and including significant copying from the passage, the essay includes a pervasive pattern of errors: omitted "to be" verbs ("if someone [is] in distress"), much ungrammatical word order ("Why no one is going to help me?"), non-idiomatic phrasing ("help in a crisis situation each other"), omitted articles ("[a/the] bystander has to understand"). It suggests that its writer would profit from extensive practice reading and writing in English.

Overall Evaluation: INADEQUATE WRITING

 


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