Saran Baik dan Buruk: Merancang Karangan IELTS

Contoh Writing IELTS

Bagi anda yang sedang mempersiapkan diri menghadapi tes Writing pada ujian IELTS, berikut adalah saran yang bisa anda pertimbangkan.

Saran yang buruk – berikan diri anda waktu sebanyak mungkin untuk menulis

Salah. Pembagian waktu bisa jadi suatu masalah saat menulis karangan, namun cara menyelesaikan karangan anda bukanlah dengan memulai menulis dengan cepat. Akan berbeda, sesungguhnya, bagi orang berbeda pula, namun saran terbaik adalah dengan meluangkan waktu untuk merancang karangan anda. Maksudnya, jika anda tahu apa yang ingin anda sampaikan dan jika anda tahu kata yang akan digunakan, anda akan menulis dengan lebih cepat dan lebih akurat ketimbang anda langsung menulis setelah dua menit membaca pertanyaan. Beri waktu untuk diri anda. Berapa lama yang anda perlukan untuk menulis 250 kata? Jika anda tahu yang ingin anda sampaikan, jawabannya tak akan lebih dari 20 menit. Sekarang pertimbangkan mana yang lebih baik, pikirkan apa yang akan disampaikan sebelum mulai menulis atau sambil anda menulis. Pilihan di tangan anda.

The Structure of Writing Task 1

IELTS Writing Task 1 is academic writing intended for a university lecturer so you should use appropriate, academic words. You have to describe a graph in the form of report or essay. You will meet several different graphs in a IELTS Writing Task 1: Single line graph, Double line graph, Bar Graph, Pie Chart, Table, or Process.

Some rules in describing graph, chart, process or table are:

1. Your report must be of at least 150 words written in 20 minutes.
2. Do not write your opinion or copy words from the task prompt – rephrase and use synonyms instead.
3. Never use bullets or points, write your report in the form of essay or letter.

One of the most important part in your report is its structure. The IELTS examiners will look for Introduction – Body – Conclusion structure from your report. In general, report will be easily read that way. Here are some key points in your essay's structure.

 

The Introduction part should describe the purpose of your report and say what overall trends you see. You need to remember that you are describing a graph to someone who doesn’t see it. Write what the graph is about, including its dates and location.

As for The Body, you should describe the most important trends, while all information is summarized to avoid unnecessary details. For example, if there is a graph that has 2 peaks, you should mention them; tell when those peaks appeared and what the peak values are. You should link the paragraphs by sentences that logically connect them to one another.

The Conclusion should sum up the general issues and objects shown on the graph and compare them if possible.

Here is a good example of essay writing that get score band 7, taken from IELTS Blog.

Look at the picture and learn the vocabularies used

1. Rose/ increased steadily
2. Rose/ increased dramatically
3. Rose/ increased gradually
4. Plunged to ...
5. Peaked at / reached a high of ...
6. Stood at
7. Fluctuated
8. Fell/ dropped dramatically/ sharply
9. Reach a trough of ...
10. Remained constant/ unchanged/ stable at ...
11. Levelled off/ evened out at ...
12. Hit a low of ...

IELTS writing check list for band 9

Task achievement : 5

How effectively the

candidate has identified,

illustrated and reflected the

key features of the

information in the task

Coherency and Cohesions: 5

How well the information

and ideas are organised,

presented and linked

Vocabulary :5

The range of vocabulary

used, how accurately it is

used and how appropriate it

is for the task

Grammar range and accuracy: 5

The range of structures

used, how accurately they

are used and how

APPROPRIATE they are for the

task

All these criteria are equally weighed so out of 9 band,each criterion can be 2.25 band.So,International students need to focus on the other criteria such as Task response and Coherency+cohesions.Since Grammar and vocabulary overly focused,a testee can only have a full band in both criteria which is 4.25 band.However, Most average to intermediate students can get a 3.0- 3.5 band out of 4.25 band.

There is a common myth I found observed from international students that pedantic way of writing will get them a high band and the reason behind this is precise or concise writing.Ironically,IELTS has no marks for precise/concise writing.To learn precise writing it needs minimum of 6 months to 1 year practice because it needs re-editing while one practices.On the other hand,IELTS writing task 2 is less than 40 minutes task.So it is hard to accomplish it.Albeit,many commercialised language schools are misleading students to write precisely or "precise writing".The hidden idea is to extend their course as a result more tuition fee to teach.

If you look through IELTS.org website,it shows "how its marked".So it is very clear to understand how to achieve high score by understanding the criteria.However,many testees are over confident about the first 2 criteria ( task response and coherency) when they are not very sure about it.

The common mistake they do with IELTS writing task 2 is, no relevancy to the back ground or topic question.Next one is, not explaining well logically.Even though your grammar and vocabulary are accurate and appropriate to the task,it is not enough to score a band of 7.Because the score will be as follows ( 1+1.5+1.5+1.5) which is 5.5 in total.However,it can go up to 6.5 if they try their best.

Every IELTS question task needs "reasoning" ( use your reason: please find the task question under any IELTS question topic ).So if one can logically explain well they can surely achieve a high band score but HOW? Task response and coherency need logical explanation and organization.While increasing these both criteria, one can can get 2 band in each which will result as follows ( 2band in task response, 2 band coherency+coherency,grammar 1.5 and vocabulary 1.5,so in total 4+3 -7 band).

I have personal experience from Brisbane for making many students from 5.5 band to 7 band less than 2 weeks.The method was teaching them how to write logically than focusing overly on grammar or vocabulary.However,there are some stiff necked students who may argue just opposite but I will advice them to go for 6 to one year practice under any language school since they believe vocabulary and grammar are the major points in an ess@y.They don't care about the logical explanation of an Ess@y.If an ess@y is not informative with a logical reasoning ,then the ess@y isn"t purposive but to impress the reader with their ostentatious style.

IELTS ess@y require content and reasoning and if a testee has both criteria it is very likely to get 7.5 band (2.25+2.0+1.5+1.5).7.25 will be rounded to 7.5 band.However,grammar and vocabulary are important to get 8 or higher than 8.In my observation,most average to intermediate testees score in grammar is 1.75 band and vocabulary is 2 band.

So before booking a next exam date, understand these marking criteria level and practice accordingly.Check your ess@ys by using criteria list.

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IELTS Academic writing task 1- data analysis model

The pie charts below show units of electricity production by fuel source in Australia

and France in 1980 and 2000.

Summarise the information [how?--->]by selecting and rep0rting the main features, and make

comparisons where relevant[ only where relevant,not everywhere].

Required Task Responses are:

1,Summarise the info HOW? selecting the MAIN points and rep0rting it.This also means that not to select everything but MAIN POINTS ONLY.

2. Compare ( equivalents, similarities and contrasts) where relevant; do not compare UNNECESSARILY everywhere.

Expected sentence structures: 150 words = 10-12 sentences.So, 3 simple sentences+5 compound + 5 or more complex pattern.

Common mistakes =

1. sentence level:Subject verb agreement, word order, plural/singular,adjective/noun error,articles,prepositions,run-on sentences/comma splices,dangling modifiers and punctuation.

2. paragraph level : unity,accurate use of cohesions,phrases and parallelism.

3.Vocabulary: inaccurate interpretation of Data or lack of Data analysis.

****Please find the uploaded attachment to see this pie chart  *******  (taken from IELTS cambridge-7 task 4).

PARA 1.The pie charts show the amount of electricity that was produced from 5 different sources (coal,hydro,oil,natural gas and nuclear) in Australia and France in 1980 and 2000, together with the total production of electricity in those years.

PARA 2/BODY 1[scope - two main sources and rest of them being eliminated ( hyrdo,natural and oil). However, points are generalised here; called general trend]

Overall, there are two key points to note. First, the total production of electricity in both Australia and France increased dramatically between 1980 and 2000, a rise of between 70% and 100% in a 20 year period. Secondly, the source of the electricity was very different in the two countries.

PARA 3/BODY 2 [ just one main point and its contrast; main point is coals so compare 1990/2000 in Australia and then compare that of France] 

Looking at the charts in more detail, we can see that in Australia the amount of electricity produced from coal increased rapidly from 50 to 130 units, which was more than 75% of the total production of electricity in 2000. In France, on the other hand, the amount of electricity produced from coal did not increase and remained stable at only 25 units. This means that the percentage produced from coal declined significantly.

PARA 4/BODY 3 [second main point and its contrast - main point = nuclear power. contrasted as same as the previous point]

It is also noteworthy that in France the production of electricity from nuclear power grew enormously from 15 to 126 units, representing just under 75% of the total production in 2000, whereas in Australia no electricity was produced from nuclear

To sum up,generating electricity from natural gas and hydro power had been declined,but the units created from the oil had been increased by 2000 in both countries.  <----[This is a summary about the other sources so the phrase "sum up" instead of "conclude up,is better].

This is the full picture of writing task 1 (without any comments)

The pie charts show the amount of electricity that was produced from 5 different sources in Australia and France in 1980 and 2000, together with the total production of electricity in those years.

Overall, there are two key points to note. First, the total production of electricity in both Australia and France increased dramatically between 1980 and 2000, a rise of between 70% and 100% in a 20 year period. Secondly, the source of the electricity was very different in the two countries.

Looking at the charts in more detail, we can see that in Australia the amount of electricity produced from coal increased rapidly from 50 to 130 units, which was more than 75% of the total production of electricity in 2000. In France, on the other hand, the amount of electricity produced from coal did not increase and remained stable at only 25 units. This means that the percentage produced from coal declined significantly.

It is also noteworthy that in France the production of electricity from nuclear power grew enormously from 15 to 126 units, representing just under 75% of the total production in 2000, whereas in Australia no electricity was produced from nuclear.

To sum up,generating electricity from natural gas and hydro power had been declined,but the units created from the oil had been increased by 2000 in both countries.