Learn how to organising information into logical paragraphs for IELTS Writing Task 1. Deciding which categories go into which paragraphs is crucial for a high score. Below is a practice lesson with a bar chart typical of IELTS Writing Task 1 to show you how to do this. Bar charts are common in IELTS writing task 1 academic paper.
How to Organise Information – IELTS Writing Task 1
Coherence and Cohesion, which is 25% of your marks. This marking criterion is about:
- logical order of information using paragraphs
- logical order of information inside paragraphs
- linking words
This is one area of that people often forget which greatly impacts their score. So, you must spend time during your planning stage to think about how you plan to organise data. You can read more about the marking on this page: IELTS WRITING TASK 1 MARKING CRITERIA WITH TIPS.
Some people find it difficult to decide which categories and what data should go into what paragraphs, particularly if there is a lot of information given in the task. Remember, writing task 1 is not an essay, it is a report which needs to be concise and highly organised.
Check your organisation skills
The bar chart below shows the hours per week that teenagers spend doing certain activities in Chester from 2002 to 2007.
Source of Bar Chart: https://www.english-in-chester.co.uk
QUESTIONS FOR YOU
- How many paragraphs would you have?
- How would you organise the categories into body paragraphs? Which categories go into which body paragraphs?
ANSWERS
The answer to this lesson is now available.
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