Links to practise for the writing exam

Get ready for the written mediation exam:

• Written mediation  
• Written Mediation. Marking Criteria

• How to do the Written Mediation?

 

Get ready for the written production exam:

Marking criteria

How to write an Essay?

How to write a Report?

How to write a Review?

How to write a Comment?

How to write Formal Letters? 

How to write a Letter of Application?

How to write an Article/ Blog Entry? 

How to write a Guidebook Entry? 

How to write a proposal?

How to write a narrative?

 

Useful tips:

- Have your own commonplace book/ bullet journal :

Keep a notebook with interesting sentences, quotations, vocabulary, grammar structures, collocations, adverbs, idioms, phrasal verbs, linking devices,... which you can then use in your future writings.

 

- The use of linking devices helps you not only to organise your compositions but it may also help you to come up with ideas.

USEFUL LANGUAGE FOR WRITING 

LIST OF CONNECTORS, LINKS, TRANSITIONAL WORDS AND PHRASES

Linking Devices. 

Linking Devices 2

Linking Words 

 

 - How to develop a paragraph?

A possible formula is: SEEC: State, Elaborate, Exemplify, Conclusion but not necessarily all of them in a single paragraph.

1. State:

One or two sentences to state an issue: topic sentence.

2. Elaborate:

Two or three sentences to elaborate and clarify what we mean by this issue: supporting sentences.

3. Exemplify:

Two or three sentences where we provide some sort of exemplification

4. Conclusion

Examples:

State: One way we can help the environment is by choosing goods with less packaging. Exemplify: For example, in the supermarket, we should buy fruit and vegetables loose rather than pre-packed. Hopefully businesses will gradually realise that customers do not want unnecessary packaging. Similarly, we could ask the government to change the law so that all packaging must be recyclable. Conclusion: Doing these two things could save millions of trees and reduce pollution in our oceans.

 

State: The most effective way of helping our planet would be to switch to plant-based agriculture. Elaborate: Farm animals, especially cows, produce a lot of greenhouse gases and many forests are cut down to provide animals with land for grazing, increasing greenhouse gas levels. Exemplify: Growing food plants instead would actually help to reduce these levels in the atmosphere.Conclusion: It is so easy to cook excellent vegetarian and vegan dishes these days that we no longer need to eat so much meat, and anyone can do it. Moreover, it would be cheaper for shoppers