do more work on vs do work on

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in slightly different contexts. 'Do more work on' implies doing additional or extra work on a project or task, while 'do work on' simply means to work on something without specifying the amount of work. The choice between the two depends on whether you want to emphasize the additional effort or just the action of working on something.

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do more work on

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to indicate doing additional or extra work on something.

This phrase is used when you want to emphasize that more work needs to be done on a particular task or project.

Examples:

I need to do more work on my presentation before the meeting.
She decided to do more work on her research paper to improve its quality.

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-I know I need to do more work on myself.
We certainly need to do more work on IT, but that is being addressed in other reports.
You need to do more work on it; we will keep at you.
However, we shall have to do more work on the report, because we are process workers and we are only at first reading.
You back to do more work on Glover?
But there is a role here, and we need to do more work on that as a unique parliamentary contribution to the playing field in which executives can deliver the goods.
On 3 May 2007 the Commission announced in Memo/07/162 that during 2007 it would 'do more work on the feasibility of further legislation on trade in seal products'.
This new policy must be complementary to the work done in the Member States and, in this regard, we have advised that it will be necessary to do more work on the problems faced by the new Members.
We also need to do more work on informing people, since some members of the public, out of ignorance, dispose of such things as medicines in the wrong way.
We need to do more work on it, because it needs to deliver benefits for business, otherwise there is no point in having it at all.
We need to do a lot more work on that.
I know this is a difficult field, not without controversy, and the Commissioner will still have to do a great deal more work on it.
It had been a bit of a disappointment, she said, so... she brought a few bottles of it home to do some more work on and...
We have to increase funding for research and development and we also have to do a lot more work on lifelong learning.
Let us do more work in sport to bring our communities together.
Like I want to do more work.
In our opinion, this programme in particular could do more work and better work with less funding.
Perhaps we should do more work around that concept, in order to achieve real consumer protection, which is what we are interested in.
The aim is certainly to have central independent statistics available, but we need to do more work to achieve this.
We need to do more work in this regard, and the Commission will also receive our full support if further measures are necessary.

Alternatives:

put more effort into
spend more time on
devote more attention to
focus more on

do work on

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to indicate working on something without specifying the amount of work.

This phrase is used when you want to convey the action of working on a task or project without emphasizing the quantity of work involved.