- IELTS AcademicWriting
IELTSAcademicWriting
TheIELTS Academic Writingmodulemeasuresyourabilityto
writeinclear,formal English, as is generally demandedinan
academiccontext.Youareassessedaccordingtothefollowing
criteria:
TaskResponse - how accurately toaddressthetask
Coherenceand Cohesion - how organized yourwritingis
LexicalResource - the range of your vocabulary
GrammaticalRange and Accuracy -thecorrectnessofyourgrammar
Youhaveanhourtocompletetwowritingtasks.Youmustcompletebothtasksto
getascore.Youneedtoorganizeyourideas,write accurately, and use rich
vocabulary.Itisrecommendedthatyou divideyourtimeinthisway:
Task 1– 150 words– 20 minutes
Task 2– 250 words– 40 minutes
1.
2. IELTS ACADEMICWRITING-TASK 1
Inthefirsttask, youmustwriteareport based on pictorialinformation.This
means youmay needto describeagraph,chart, or diagram.Itmay beabar
chart, piechart,linegraph, orsomeothergraphicrepresentation.Youmight
alsobeaskedtodescribetheprocessillustrated bythe diagram.This
involvesdescribingthedataaccurately, pointing out trends andrelevant
information, and usingappropriatevocabulary.
To understand how best to answer thistypeoftask,readthroughthe
modelanswersprovidedinIELTSguidebooks.Examiners will score your
answer based on yourabilityto grouprelevantinformation,linkideasin
complexsentences,and useappropriatevocabularyto describe trends. This
is not as difficultasitsounds.Byreadingthroughseveralsampleanswers,
youcanextractthe vocabulary you needandalsolearn a variety of sentence
