Simon’s ielts writing task 2

the secret to improving in all three areas is planning
. A good plan will ensure 
that you answer the question, and that your answer is coherent and well structured. Hopefully it will 
also contain some good ideas (i.e. vocabulary). 
Look at the essay plan in 
this lesson
and the resulting essay that I wrote 
here
. Without a good plan, I 
find it very difficult to "improvise" a coherent essay, so I'm sure that you do too. Give yourself more 
planning time (around 
10 minutes
), and you'll write better essays. 
A couple of notes about the advice above:

Maybe you have read my lessons about 10-minute plans and 13-sentence essays, but are 
you 
really
following this advice? I've taught many students who used my methods well in lessons 
and homework tasks, but "crumbled" under the pressure of a real exam and went back to their "old 
ways". Is this happening to you? 

If you 
are
following all of my advice about planning and writing 13-sentence essays, maybe your 
problem is writing task 1, not task 2. 
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Saturday, July 15, 2017 
IELTS Writing Advice: analyse my answers 
There are lots of sample answers for writing task 1 and 2 in the lessons on this blog. If you analyse 
them carefully, you'll learn about planning or selecting ideas, paragraph building and sentence 
structure; you'll also find some good vocabulary ideas that you can 'steal' from me. 
Another thing you'll notice is that my answers are not perfect (although they are good enough for a 
band 9). There is always something that could be added, or an idea that could be better developed. 
But this is normal when you have a time limit, and when you're only expected to write 150 or 250 
words. 

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Next Thursday, I'll write a short analysis of the writing task 1 answer that I shared earlier this week 
(
here
). Maybe you could analyse that answer too: what can we learn from it, and were there any 
imperfections?