How to practise writing for IELTS?

Just imagine, if you don't have idea what to write on the topics. It creates  the biggest challenge for you is to understand how  you will take initiative to improve your writing skills?

Most of candidates face difficulties because they go out of thoughts and get into stressful situations without knowing the tricks and techniques to improve ideas in writing.

Whether it is General or Academic training for IELTS writing until one excels his writing skills can not meet the requirements of band descriptors. There is a few key points that will enhance your writing skills.

There is a famous dialogue in English by many of native English speakers that "It's practice that makes perfect" but it is not necessarily acceptable for IELTS exam as you have amount of practices without the band descriptors requirements on currents response and grammatical range according to the band you have targeted is going to be difficult to score for IELTS. 

Practice is not an issue, it's all about giving training to yourself to start to write with the magical words and beautiful phrases which will define your actual sequences and reduce flaws. First of all, you need to accept mistakes as a beginner. You may face problems with spelling mistakes grammatical mistakes. You may use very commonly used words or you may forget your ideas and come up with repetitive behavior in writing. It is highly advisable that start to write with your own ideas and learn how to input vocabulary and phrases with a sequence of writing.

There must be introduction, body one or two and conclusion or closing without summarization. Every bit of slot has some phrases which will connect the ideas and improve presentation through cohesive devices. Understanding on data analysis and presenting ideas in a sequence needs learning practice how to use accordingly. If it is a writing that also some bit of tricks can be applied to improve quality writing as per the band descriptors of IELTS. 

It is quite obvious that it is not result oriented immediately but there will be a beautiful time with your consistent thoughts which will bring many corrections and give your writing a shape of formal style. Remember, there are formal, semi-formal and informal writing. You may find improvement gradually, after working on them. 

Always keep your ideas simple and sweet. You are going to improve first how to set up phrases and vocabulary then you can learn active grammatical structures where you can introduce simple, compound and complex sentences along with right uses of punctuations. You may have less ideas  but if you must eye on how to maintain the proper sequences with the vocabulary and techniques on outline, proofreading, sentence structures and idea generation, can boost your confidence along with present your writing as per the requirement of band descriptions.

Read different articles on newspapers, journals, magazines, books, blogs and find out how the writing has been introduced for information, exactly you can analyze how you can begin and what you are going to write in introduction, body and closing summary. The time you walk on vocabulary with synonyms and paraphrases skills will  truly be going to help you introduce your own words and bring maturation in writing. It doesn't mean that you need to learn a lots on general knowledge to collect ideas from variety of topics. It is obvious we cannot avoid it until we have some bit of information about a topic how can we write. It is the question but remember one thing, small idea can be well elaborated with the help of currents and cohesive devices. This idea will be in the multiple of thought processes and extend the meaning to meet of the word length.

Take a strong resolution to write every day with new topics and try to collect feedback on your writing and analyze your common mistakes. Understand the formal approach and writing will come from your thought process that how you would like to introduce your ideas systematically.

Walk a lot on spelling  improvement with spelling tricks and as much as you can learn synonyms to improve your word power, It will boost your inner confidence to make new words with ideas. It will also lead to Grammatical accuracy.

Simple present tense is one of the best tenses which will help you a lot to strengthen your writing on many of essays or all any kind of information best topics. Past and future forms also play active role in writing as on topic demands. You need to whether a topic needs narration, discussion, exposition or description, accordingly target of language with accurate tenses can be used. 

Everyday writing can direct you towards successful writing, the way you think of vocabulary if you convert those words into formal words and introduce in the writing, you can quickly find a new change in your writing skills.

Finally it is the only one area to improve your writing is to write every day and collect feedback with your satisfactions and bring lot of changes from suggested points.

Thank you!

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Padarbind 

IELTS Trainer 

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