Writing section of the IELTS test is one of the easiest yet the hardest among all the rest. You cannot improve your writing even if you keep writing all your life. The skills like listening, and reading play a pivotal role in improving your knowledge, experience, and personal style. How? We will tell you how. Let us break the process down step by step.
Role of reading and listening
The skills in a language are not stand-alone skills. You cannot improve one without improving the others. When a child is born, its brain is empty.
Slowly as days goes by and then weeks, months and years – naturally the child keeps accumulating information from the noise, sound, real life situations, watching TV, and then connecting sound with pictures, then when the child starts learning its mother tongue by learning the alphabet, sound of the letters and words, meaning of the words, and sentences, and then reading contents like stories, poems, etc., its experience and database of information keep growing. This is how one day a person starts exercising his writing skills.
The richer the experience of a person in listening and reading, the better s/he will become in putting many interesting ideas into his/her writing. This is the key to your success.
Tips for writing
- Take a newspaper, pick a news topic, search online about the same topic, read from many other sources, listen to online news on the same topic, and you will find that there are many common words revolving around the same topic.
- Keep track of new words by writing them down in your notebook.
- Search their meanings, and look for sentence examples.
- Now copy the examples in your notebook.
- Try to understand how the words and other parts of speech were combined together to create an effect that you can taste or feel through your imagination.
- Now try to make newer sentences in the same pattern as the examples.
- Try to create a story with the set of new words you have learned from the news topic.
- Remember to write about the same news topic so that you can use the words you have learned from the same topic.
- Practice everyday. If you have a friend or hired tutor to help you out, then ask for help or pay for help.
- Correct spelling and grammar structures.
- Make a habit of writing a sentence that has many ideas embedded within.
Study the perfect IELTS essays
- Now that you have practiced writing for many days and months, start learning the types of questions you will face in IELTS writing.
- Search for good writing samples online or find books on writing that include responses with high band scores.
- Diligently study the introduction, the body of the essay, and the conclusion of those responses. Study the question and analyze the writing.
- Study how evidence is embroidered to the main body of the essay.
Copy the perfect responses
- Copying is one of the best ways to understand how an essay develops.
- Just write the same essay a few times – just copy word for word.
- By now you must have an idea what the question wanted and how the response developed.
Develop your own essay
- Read the questions.
- Figure out what kind of question it is.
- Find out what it wants.
- Now, think about the things you want to tell your reader. Think about what ideas you want to convey.
- Make a list of points you want to write about. It Takes about 5 minutes to plan the essay.
- Once your planning phase is done, start writing the essay.
- Keep at least 5 minutes for a revision for mistakes.
- Do a final reading of your essay before submission. Just read it quickly.
If you follow these tips for writing perfect IELTS essays, you will be able to do really well. Follow every step of the process to the letters. Good luck!