Tips for band 8 essay writing

4. The Introduction:

The introduction matters for various reasons. It is the first thing the examiner reads if you get it wrong and you have made an immediate bad impression. That’s not good.The introduction is the link between the question and your answer. Make sure that you are looking back to the question and writing about the right thing. It is important to focus on these following points while writing the introduction

-An introduction helps to understand that you have identified the question correctly.

- It makes your position clear (related to the question).

- It is a thesis that presents your point of view on your given topic.

- It is an outline sentence declaring the points you are going to use to support your thesis.

 

5. Develop clear ideas and explain:

This stage of the process is slightly different and requires thinking in a very different way. You just don’t need to answer the question, instead the answer should becoherent.

-Make sure that your ideas are clear and write one main idea per paragraph.

-Explain those ideas and show why/how they relate to the question.

-Give your opinions and back them up with evidence and examples.

Your answer should persuade, be consistent and develop logically towards a conclusion, which answers all parts of the question.

Make sure that you don’t make these following mistakes while writing the main paragraph

The ideas which you have written are good but they don’t relate to the question

Don’t explain too detail on the topic and it isn’t clear what the main idea is.

The ideas aren’t supported with reasons and examples.