So now you know how to write the introduction and the overview to your task one essay. The last thing that you need to talk about to finish your essay are the specific details. So in this video, I'm going to give you some basic information on writing the specific details. So when you're writing your specific details, you have to include key information and numeric details of your infographic. Now, I've mentioned this before, that if you have a lot of data in your infographic, then you should not write about every single data point. Because this is a waste of time, you should only be writing about the data points, which are the most important.
So when you're writing the specific details, meaning when you're writing paragraphs number three, and four, here's what you need to do. First, you have to start Little infographic into two halves. Then once you've split the infographic into two halves, you have to talk about the first half in paragraph number three. And you have to talk about the second half in paragraph number four. So when we do our practice exam questions, I'm going to take you through a lot of different examples to show you exactly how to do this. The last thing that you need to know is that each of your detailed paragraphs have to be two or three sentences long.
And you should only spend about five minutes on each of these detailed paragraphs. Now, here's a sample answer for a task one question. I've shown you this example before. So in this example, this highlighted part here is what we call the detailed paragraphs. So here's our introduction. Here's the overview and here Paragraph number three.
And number four, we have our specific details. Now, I want to give you some phrases that you can use for starting your detailed paragraphs. So here's our list. You can use any of these phrases to start your detailed paragraphs. For example, you can say, over a 28 year period, or you can say, specifically, categorically speaking, and so on. Here are some more phrases which you can use.
So I suggest that you pause the video and take notes on these phrases so that you can use them when you're practicing writing the task one essay. So that's all for this introductory video on how to write the detailed paragraphs. In the next video, I'll take you through several practice exam questions to show you How to write the specific details for trend graphs.