Welcome to my course on ions writing academic writing. My name is Dr. Raymond Connors. The goals of this lesson the first lesson are going to be to introduce me Raymond Connors, the ions instructor to discuss the two different ions exam styles. What I am buyouts writing part one involves and how to estimate the number of words to write the purpose of part one of the arts writing exam, the time constraints needed for this exam, how to structure writing into paragraphs and why you do not need a mess up vocabulary to do well, and then the interactive quiz to establish concept learning, understanding that we ready to go. Excellent. In that case, let's move along.

On Dr. Raymond Cotton's, I'm an Australian and I'm a long term isles instructor in colleges. And universities in foreign lands, particularly in Asia. The writing course the first lesson here is going to be the outline of the writing tasks, what is included what we have to do what we don't have to do? This series of lessons deals with academic Isles. So if you're taking general Isles, this is the wrong course for you. There are two types, the academic and the general.

So what we have to think about is what is different about them, right. The academic type isles is specialized, and it's for technical use. People for example, like doctors, engineers, etc. are going to take academic Isles. The general is for what we might call non technical or non skilled occupation. If you want to migrate to an English speaking country, people searched drivers, waiters, farm workers, etc.

There are two writing tasks in academic Isles. The first task is to describe a diagram, a table, a chart or a graph. And the second task is an essay on a topic which is chosen by the examiner, you need to write about 160 to 170 words. For this section of the test, this is part one. So get used to the idea of how many lines This represents, on an a4 piece of lined paper. Here's what you do.

In your own handwriting, write a sentence that takes up one line on the paper, that's all one line. Count how many words are in that line of your own handwriting and divide that into 160. So let's say you write 10 words to align on average. So the number of lines you need to write will be 160. That's the target divided by 10. They're both 16 lines.

And from my own experience, that's up to over a third of a page. exam is not going to go and count every word you have written. They will see that you've written about a third to half a page. And that's what they want to see. They know that that's about the right number. Don't write too much.

If you do write too much in this part, you will lose time to do the next part. And it's worth more marks than this part. But also don't write too little. If you write too little for you write too much, you will lose score. So get used to the idea of writing 160 words 16 lines approximately. Work it out for yourself.

Practice makes perfect. So give it a try. Do it yourself. write a sentence on a piece of a4 paper. How many lines are on that line? divided by 180 260 there's the number of words you need.

How many lines do you need? Part One writing in is is probably the most boring thing you will ever do in aisles. Why? It's so boring. Because you're describing a set of numbers, and you need to talk about only what you see, there are no opinions needed to keep opinions for part two of the writing exam. And we'll talk about that in another lesson how you do that.

So, you will be describing only facts, but you do need to be able to make some assumptions from these facts, but not opinions. 20 minutes on this top part. Take no longer than 20 minutes. For example, if you're writing and you see the clock is showing 20 minutes, leave this task. Go to the next task. If you leave something out at the end, you're probably not going to not going to lose too many points anyway.

And if you do have time after finishing part two, which is worth more marks, than you might be able to come back to pass Want to finish it? For this right? You need to write three or four paragraphs. So we have to consider what is a paragraph. Paragraph is a piece of writing that contains one idea. It generally has what we call a topic sentence.

The topic sentence tells you what a paragraph is about the supporting sentences, which support the details of what you have just said, sometimes you might have three, three sentences in a paragraph. And this time, you might have the ending sentence which closes the paragraph that means that this paragraph is finished. How do you go about that? We'll have a look at it. So we have to think about it this way. The sentences that we're going to use no border paragraphs we're going to use what about the first one?

We're going to think, what does this diagram or this chart or this graph represent? So we have to rephrase the question in other words that exist Nema knows you understand what the diagram is about. And then the next one or two paragraphs, you describe what you see the layout between paragraphs, this is very, very important to know. If you present Well, you will score well. So, there are two types of ways to present this. The artless is one way we say okay, the classic paragraphing.

Now slightly old fashioned is to put some sort of a title, yes, but you don't really need to. an indent indentation means to start your first word of the other paragraph in a little bit from the rest of the paragraph. You see how that's done here. The second type is to leave a blank line between the paragraphs. My suggestion if you want to do very very well in your isles writing exam is to indent and to leave a blank line. This way you're satisfying the needs or the desires of both types of examiners.

They can't say he didn't do this or she didn't do that. It's wrong. Here's a surprise for you. And this does surprise a lot of people. Unlike what you have probably been led to believe. You do not need an extensive vocabulary to do particularly well in this part of Isles.

We will discuss this in the next lesson or two why you don't need so much vocabulary, you will be surprised. So to sum up so far, the writing test in total is 60 minutes long. And task one you need to write 160 words and spend about 20 minutes. Task two is 250 words or there abouts and you need to spend 40 minutes on it. You have To get used to it, you have to remember to practice, practice, practice. Part one disk drive stripes graph diagram, a table or chart.

And Part two is usually a discursive or argumentative type essay. Right? Let's have a look. See how you did. The iOS writing test takes How long? 60 minutes?

30 Minutes, or 90 minutes? What did you say? You said 60 minutes. You're right. The iOS writing test is divided into how many parts for two or six? been paying attention?

You should have picked two. How many words do you need to write in part one of the aisles writing test 350 200 or 160. I hope you chose 160. You should leave Part One of the arts writing test after 20 minutes Why? Because one it's too difficult. Or you get a better score on Part Two origin unimportant part of the exam.

It's because you get a better score on part two. So therefore you need to concentrate more on it than you do on path one. We'll leave a blank line and indent the first word of a paragraph because it takes up more space. It's easy for the examiner to see where a new idea begins. Or it looks neater. We could say it does look neater Of course it does.

But the main reason is it's easy for the examiner to see where a new idea begins. And that's important. The examiner is tired after marking a lot of messy exams. When yours comes along and it's presented in the right way. He's got to be very inclined to look at your work in a positive manner. So LS has come to an end here.

Really beautiful. We achieve the goals of the list and did we introduce me the isles exam instructor Raymond Connors? Yes, we did. Did we discuss the two different exam piles types? That is the academic and the general? Yes, we did.

Did we talk about what isles writing part one involves? Yes, we did. We said it involves talking about a graph, a diagram or a table. Did we talk about how to estimate the number of words to write? Yes, we did. Using an a4 piece of paper, we write some words and we count them.

And then we work out how many lines? Did we say what the purpose of part one of the is writing the exam was? Yes to describe the things that we've said. The time constraints needed. For this example. We talked about them.

Yes, we did. We said that we need to spend 20 minutes on part one, and 40 minutes on part two. Do we talk about how to structure writing into play paragraphs? Yes, we talked about topic sentences and support sentences. And we talked about why you do not need a mess of vocabulary to do well. Well, a little bit, but we will go into that in greater detail later.

And did we have an interactive quiz to establish the concept? Understanding? Yes, we had a little quiz. I hope you did okay with it. Excellent job. Okay, for your homework, I want you to do something special.

I want you to rule up. I want you to complete this table from your vocabulary. And I want you to give me the dictionary. This is how you expand your vocabulary. Using a procedure we talked about the speaking part of this lesson, complete this table for your vocabulary building book maker, and make a sentence with each word you add. Remember, some words you won't be able to fill in all the blanks.

So let's say the noun you see yourself. Music, then we have to think about a verb. Is there? Is there a verb to do with music? Is there an adjective? Yes, there is musically musical.

Is there an adverb musical movie? Is there an opposite to music? Is this something similar? No, not really. Have a look at this fill in these blanks in your own vocabulary building book. Now we know a bit about how the is writing works, and we know how to start building our vocabulary using a vocabulary book.

Then get ready for some serious work. Yes, because in the next writing lesson, we're going to talk about the vocabulary to use with graphs. You are very brave taking this but you are doing very well if you've got this far, and you're still with us and you still want to carry on with this. Excellent job, folks. Excellent job. I'll see you in the next lesson.

Thank you for watching.