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overhaul of its English language exam. Between 2001 and 2005, IELTS conducted the
“IELTS Writing Project” (Taylor & Weir, 2012, p. 3).
According to IELTS Liz (2017, NP) “There are only minimal differences between
IELTS’s General writing task 2 and its Academic writing task 2.
Table 3, overleaf, summarizes the major similarities and minor differences between the
General and Academic versions of the writing task 2 component of the IELTS.