字幕列表 影片播放 列印英文字幕 Do you need to improve your academic essays at college or university? Do you need a higher IELTS, CAE, or TOEFL writing score? In either case, you need to follow certain guidelines to maximise your chances of success. Hello and welcome, everyone. This is Minoo at Anglo-Link. In today’s tutorial, we're going to look at some general essay writing tips and some specific tips for three English language tests: IELTS, TOEFL, and CAE. By the end of this tutorial, you will have a good idea of the steps you need to take to improve your essay writing skills. O.K. Today I have 8 tips to share with you. The 1st tip is: Follow the instructions. Make sure you read the question carefully so you can give a relevant answer, and also make sure you follow the instructions. A common mistake is to ignore what your teacher or examiner wants to see. If the rubric says: Support your opinion with examples, and you fail to provide examples, you will not get a high score even if you write the best essay in the world. Also, respect the number of words they have instructed you to write. Too short is definitely not good, but too long is equally problematic as quantity may end up sacrificing quality. My 2nd tip is: Manage your time. Another common mistake is to spend too little or too much time planning and too little or no time revising. Planning involves two things. Firstly, making brief notes of any ideas that come to you when you read the question. Some people call this brainstorming. And secondly, organising your ideas into several points and finding supporting arguments and examples for each point. This is often called outlining. Revising involves rereading what you have written for two purposes: Firstly, to make sure you have organised your ideas well and make any changes that will make your answer easier to read. And secondly, to correct any spelling, punctuation, or grammar mistakes that you may notice. O.K. Let's look at my 3rd tip: Always use the standard essay format. A common mistake is to write your answer without an introduction or a conclusion. Always follow this format: Make the first paragraph the introduction. Your introduction must have at least two sentences. The first sentence must introduce the topic using your own words. Try to make your topic sentence an interesting paraphrase of the question. This sentence is often called a 'hook', whose purpose is to generate interest in the reader. The second sentence should present your answer to the question as briefly as possible. Don't present any arguments or examples in the introduction. Keep your introduction short. The following two or three paragraphs constitute the body of your answer. In each body paragraph, you state one single point in support of your brief answer in the introduction. This is where you present your supporting arguments and examples for that point. A 300-word essay would typically include two body paragraphs. And, the final paragraph is the conclusion. This brings us to tip number 4, which is: Vary your vocabulary by using synonyms. The examiner is looking for a good knowledge of vocabulary. You show this by using synonyms in different parts of your essay, and by using appropriate adjectives and adverbs to strengthen your message. Therefore, make sure that you use your own words when you present the topic in the introduction paragraph your hook, and also make sure that you use different words in your conclusion when you summarise your points and restate your answer. Tip number 5 is: Use transition and linking words. Make sure you master the use of transition words such as 'first and foremost', 'additionally', and linking words such as 'nevertheless', 'despite', etc. Using the correct linking and transition phrases is extremely important in presenting your points in a clear and easy-to-follow manner. Right, Tip number 6 is: Improve your punctuation. Correct punctuation is like clear pronunciation. It will make it comfortable for the reader to follow what you have written. The most important punctuation marks to use correctly in your essays are the comma, the semi-colon, and the full stop. Another thing that can help your reader is avoiding very long sentences. The recommended average length of sentences in a text is about 20 words. That's the average length. So, some of your sentences may be 10 to 15 words, and others 25 to 35 words. O.K. Moving on to tip number 7, which is: Improve your grammar. It goes without saying that too many grammar mistakes will lower your score. Watch out especially for mistakes with tenses, conditionals, subject-verb agreement, or subject-pronoun agreement. because these can confuse the reader. Mistakes with articles, prepositions, and the gerund are very easy to make when you write fast, but these are less important as they do not usually affect the clarity of your message, so that's why it's important to leave 3 to 5 minutes to revise your essay and correct any spelling, punctuation, or grammar mistakes that you notice. And finally: Tip number 8: Practice makes perfect! If you are new to essay writing for exams, I'd recommend you follow these steps: Step 1: Revise and improve the important areas I listed earlier, so: linking and transition words, punctuation, tenses, conditionals, subject-verb, and subject-pronoun agreement. Step 2: Familiarise yourself with the standard essay format that I described earlier: introduction, body, conclusion. Step 3: Search the official website of the test you want to take for a list of typical essay topics and writing samples. Step 4: When you have found these samples, read as many of them as you can. As you read them, do the following: First, identify the paragraphs: introduction, body 1, body 2, conclusion. Then, underline all the linking and transition words. Then, circle all the punctuation marks. And finally, make a note of good vocabulary and phrases for that particular topic. Step 5: After you have studied 10 to 15 writing samples, take each of the topics and spend a few minutes planning your own answer. Gradually, bring the time this takes you to 3 to 5 minutes. Step 6: When you feel you have become good at planning and outlining, start writing the essays. Gradually, bring the time it takes you to write a complete essay to 25 to 30 minutes. Step 7: Make sure that each time you write an essay, you revise it and improve it as much as you can. Initially, take your time to identify your recurrent mistakes and work on these weak areas. Gradually, bring your revision time down to 3 to 5 minutes. And finally, Step 8: After having written and revised 10 to 15 essays, when you are satisfied that you cannot improve on your own anymore, write an essay on a completely new topic, and submit it to a teacher. Then, use your teacher's feedback to improve areas that may still need work. Well, that's it for this tutorial. I hope you have found these tips on essay writing helpful. If you feel you need to improve important areas of English for essay writing such as linking and transition words, punctuation, tenses, etc., you are very welcome to join my online self-study course, where I cover all these topics. To sign up for my course, please visit Anglo-Link.com. As a course member, you will have the option of submitting your essay to me for my feedback. Best of luck, everyone, with your essays and tests. And, see you again very soon!
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