There are some questions that baffle the students who are about to take the IELTS test, especially the writing test. Ex: “Paragraphs, spaces, pencils or pens?”
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Paragraphs
Did you know that paragraphs are everywhere?! You see them in newspapers, articles, and just about any English language media. But why? Well, imagine having to read one whole page with no paragraphing – how would you feel? It seems like a really big boring task. Now you know how a teacher feels when he sees no paragraphing in his student’s essays!
What you have written might make sense to you but for others things won’t be clear.
– One technique is to indent your paragraphs since this is a standard denotation technique. BUT, be careful under exam pressure you must be sure you won’t forget to use it.
So what happens if you don’t include paragraphs?
– it will be more difficult for the examiner to understand. This will also negatively affect the mark for Coherence.
– it’s likely that you’ll make it harder to read for the examiner and when they have a lot of work, and let’s face it, we don’t want to make life more difficult for him or her, after all they are the ones giving you your score!
So what can we do?
Well, one really great way to deal with paragraphing is to leave a line between the previous paragraph and the next. You can simply skip two lines between paragraphs…you are probably thinking why? Let me explain..
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Leave a line – or two!
All writers whether they are native speakers or not, start writing and at some point they nearly always want to go back and rewrite some, if not all of what they have written.
Even if you don’t, which is probably not true since all writers do this, you should be checking over your essay when you have finished either writing the paragraph or you have completed writing the whole essay. This means that you can look for mistakes and of course you are likely to want to edit and change what you have already written. But what about space? I hear your cry!
Well, once you have skipped two lines in between your paragraphs, you will have plenty of room to rewrite whatever you need to, simply draw a line through what you want to change, and put a numbered star next to it. There is no need to worry about running out of paper in the exam because you can just ask for more if you need it.
Pens or Pencils?
To make things even easier you can write with a pencil as opposed to an ink pen and use a rubber to rub out whatever you want to change. Using a rubber can be a little time-consuming though so if you are running out of time in the exam, then you can cross out the parts you want to delete by drawing a straight line through what you want to remove as we mentioned earlier. Rubber just helps to make things look much neater.
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