Chapter 1 Overview of IELTS academic writing 4
Section 1 Academic test 4
Section 2 The scoring system 5
Part 1 Band score 5
Part 2 Marking criteria 5
Section 2 Main problems faced by Chinese candidates 5
Part 1 Problems candidates tend to make 5
Part 2 Differences in writing styles 6
Chapter 2 Features of good writing 7
Section 1 Writing device features 7
Part 1 Unity 8
Part 2 Coherence 9
Part 3 Adequate development 13
Section 2 Language features 15
Section 3 Conventional appropriateness 18
Section 4 Exercises 20
Chapter 3 Strategies for Task 1 27
Section 1 Effective strategies 27
Part 1 Writing the introduction and conclusion 27
Part 2 Writing the main body of the report 34
Part 3 Coherence and cohesion in report writing 37
Section 2 Student report analysis 40
Section 3 Practicing strategies 49
Chapter 4 Strategies for Task 2 writing 63
Section 1 Effective strategies 63
Part 1 Analysing the question 63
Part 2 Finding the Issues 64
Part 3 Coming up with ideas:brainstorming 64
Part 4 Sample essay 66
Part 5 Organising your ideas 67
Part 6 Writing an essay plan 68
Part 7 Writing a balanced essay 69
Part 8 Writing a thesis statement 71
Part 9 Writing a good paragraph 72
Part 10 Writing topic sentences 74
Part 11 Writing supporting sentences 75
Part 12 Writing the body part 77
Part 13 Writing the introduction and conclusion 80
Part 14 Example essay:academic 82
Section 2 Student essay analysis 83
Chapter 5 Writing samples 89
Section 1 Samples for Task 1 89
Section 2 Samples for Task 2 111
Chapter 6 Writing practice 127
Section 1 Practice for Task 1 127
Section 2 Practice for Task 2 137
Chapter 7 Common mistakes 156
Section 1 The use of the 156
Section 2 Singular or plural 157
Section 3 The use of the present simple tense 160
Section 4 Large numbers 161
Section 5 There is/there are 163
Section 6 Relative pronoun 164
Section 7 The use of and,but and or 165
Section 8 Auxiliary verbs 166
Section 9 The use of use modal verbs 167
Section 10 -ing or to+infinitive 168
Section 11 Verbs after adjectives and prepositions 169
Section 12 gerund or infinitive after allow,advise,make,suggest 170
Section 13 Stop,try,forget and remember 171
Section 14 prepositions after adjectives and nouns 172
Section 15 Prepositions after verbs 173
Section 16 Prepositions of time and place 174
Section 17 Verb passive 175
Section 18 Register 177
Section 19 Adjectives and adverbs 178
Section 20 Noun or adjective 179
Section 21 Spelling errors 181
Chapter 8 Tips for writing well 183
Section 1 Exam summary 183
Section 2 Golden rules for Task 1 183
Part 1 Graphs 184
Part 2 Bar charts 186
Part 3 Pie charts 186
Par 4 Tables 187
Par 5 Maps 188
Section 3 Golden rules for Task 2 189
Part 1 Analysing the essay questions and understanding the rubric 189
Part 2 How to write 190
Part 3 General writing hints 196