hello everyone and welcome back to

english with lucy today i've got a video

that i've never really done before I've

never really spoken about writing as far

as I know so this one has been highly

requested I know a lot of you are doing

your IELTS exams so I have got 7 top

tips that are going to help you improve

your writing quickly before we get

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let's get started with the lesson so my

first tip for improving your writing is

keep it simple now I know this seems

really really obvious but I always say

to my students simple done accurately is

better than complicated done

inaccurately

in other words is better to keep things

simple and do it well rather than over

complicate everything and do it badly

so in English writing exams you want to

show off your English but you want to

show off your accurate English not all

this English that you don't know or

haven't learnt yet now that leads me on

to point number two in order to avoid

making mistakes in your writing it's a

really really good idea to have a

collection of

set phrases and key words that you can

use in that exam so my tip number two is

prepare key phrases now you do have to

be careful with this you don't want to

rehearse

what you're going to write but you do

want to have a nice selection of things

that you could possibly say if the time

arises now especially on the IELTS exam

and I know a lot of you are studying for

this but this really goes for any

academic writing exam you want to have

linking words and key phrases prepared

now I'm going to give you a list with

two examples for each point it doesn't

cover everything that you need to know

but if you study everything in the list

you will be much much more prepared for

your English writing exam so pay

attention and if there's any point that

you think I really could expand on that

go and do your research and prepare

yourself you want to make sure that you

have a variety of different ways to

compare in the same way at the same time

contrast on the contrary however give

examples for instance to illustrate give

your opinion from my perspective from my

point of view generalize overall all

things considered to express certainty

undoubtedly of course to express a

partial agreement in a way to some

extent to show cause owing to do - to

show effect for this reason consequently

to mark time to begin with following

this to add information furthermore

moreover to express condition unless

provided that and to conclude in summary

in short so that's just a very brief

list showing you exactly what you need

to study to be fully prepared for any

English writing exam now point number

three and definitely definitely

definitely for academic writing ie

English tests or university pieces do

not use contractions or is that don't

use contractions so cannot - can't do

not -

shall not to Charlotte I am too I'm

these are all examples of contractions

and in your writing exams you want to

avoid these I know that you guys really

really really want to keep your word

countdown because you are restricted and

you want to show off as much as you

possibly can but I've got lots of tips

for reducing your word count coming up

so make sure that you do not feel

tempted to include contractions in your

academic writing so tip number four

reduce your word count use as few words

as possible completely contradictory

because I've just told you that you

should not use contractions but I've got

some really really good mini tips within

this big tip to help you keep your word

countdown and your English level up

the first one is avoid these deadweight

words like very so a lot really I have

mentioned this before in a video but if

you want to show off your English avoid

these they're pointless they are empty

calories in English replace them instead

with a strong word so instead of saying

really happy I would say I am elated

instead of saying so scared I would say

terrified okay so by using strong words

and avoiding these boring words you can

reduce your word count by a fair bit now

another way to really reduce your word

count but really improve the quality of

your writing is avoiding there is and

there are we want everything to be as

clear as possible and sometimes there is

and there are can act as fillers they

add extra words to our sentences so I'm

going to give you an example so you can

see this and bear it in mind next time

you're doing an academic piece of

writing sentence 1 there are many

problems that we may encounter there are

many problems that we may encounter

sentence 2 we may encounter many

problems we may encounter many problems

the first sentence has 8 words the

second sentence has 5 words you have

reduced your word count

and you have increased the quality in

the clarity of your writing so make sure

you apply this in your next exam number

five read the right documents read the

right pieces of writing I know many of

you like to read in your spare time you

like to do it for fun and a lot of you

will read books in English which is

amazing for improving your spelling and

improving your vocabulary as well but if

you're trying to get a good score in an

academic writing exam you might not be

reading the right kind of thing look at

the potential pieces of writing that

they're going to ask you to do are they

asking you to write articles reports

essays maybe they're asking you to write

all three if they are read all three you

need to go online or go to your library

and read articles read reports read

essays read reviews do everything you

can to familiarize yourself with all the

styles of writing number six is one that

you will have heard in schools so many

times but I've worked as a teacher for

many many years and I get so frustrated

with silly stupid mistakes that I know

that my students know they don't make

these mistakes when they're speaking so

why do they make them when they're

writing so many times I've gone and I've

prepared a lesson because I've seen that

there are some very clear mistakes in my

students writing and I prepare a lesson

to correct this mistake and when I go to

teach it they say but teacher we already

know this this is baby stuff and it's

because they don't check their work I

have a clear example of this I used to

work as a proofreader I used to check

through documents before they got sent

off to publishers to make sure that they

were all correct that there was no

spelling mistakes there were no grammar

mistakes there was nothing nothing wrong

they were all perfect and I was amazing

at doing this I could get every single

mistake just by looking at a document

from a distance I could pick out those

errors however if you follow me on

instagram you will see that I make

spelling and grammar mistakes

all the time why because I don't check

I don't check my writing I am a native

English speaker and I make spelling

mistakes granted many of them are due to

autocorrect on my phone which I'm

battling with but a lot of them are my

fault and I don't check them so I don't

see them I know when you finish an exam

you're like oh I'm done I want to move

on to the next question but you can

avoid so many point deductions just by

checking through your works so please

please please make it your absolute

priority I personally think it's much

better if you write less and check more

fewer words higher accuracy and I know

normally I promote fluency over accuracy

but not in writing exams in writing

exams you want perfection now number

seven is perhaps the most relevant and

the most difficult of all especially if

you're in really remote parts of the

world

number seven is write and get it checked

right and get it checked and

unfortunately the getting it checked

thing is a lot harder than it seems you

want to write as much as possible

checking of course it used to really

annoy me when my students would come in

with five essays but they I was so happy

that they're done that but then I saw

that they'd made loads and loads of

stupid mistakes and I just thought oh

why didn't you check it I'm just

regretting the same thing over and over

again but write as much as you can check

it and then see if you can find somebody

to correct it now I'm not saying find a

complete stranger it's got to be in

their interest to correct it as well

I personally think it's very unlikely

that you're going to find a random

teacher on the internet that will be

willing to check your writing free

however there are lots of services and

penpal sites if it's like a mutual

exchange if you find somebody who wants

to learn your language and they can help

you with your English then you can do

that or like I mentioned on services

such as lingo de and you can just have a

straight hour of analyzing writings that

you've already done and already sent

them but I will say especially to my

younger viewers really really really be

careful when you're contacting people

online to practice your English

make sure it's a trustworthy person

because there are so many predators that

want to talk to especially young girls

to practice their English and it doesn't

actually turn out to be a English

practice it turns out to be something

quite different so please please please

be careful if you've got the funds and

if you've got the time get a proper

teacher and pay them to help you it's

the only way that you're going to be

guaranteed the proper skills and the

proper qualifications and also the

proper incentive why would a random

stranger on the internet want to help

you with your writing what's in it for

them always think about that right guys

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一个我以前从未真正做过的视频据我所知，我

从来没有真正谈论过写作，

所以这个

要求很高 我认识你们很多人 正在做

你的雅思考试，所以我有 7 条重要的

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在开始之前快速提高你的写作能力

我只想感谢

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提高写作的第一个技巧是

保持简单现在我知道这看起来

真的很明显，但我总是

对我的学生说，简单完成准确

比复杂完成

不准确

更好，换句话说，保持

简单和 做得好，而不是

把所有事情都复杂化，做得不好，

所以在英语写作考试中，你想

炫耀你的英语，但你想

炫耀你的准确英语，而不是

你现在不知道或

还没学过的所有英语 这让我想到第二

点，以避免

在你的写作

中出错 所以我的第二个提示是

准备关键短语现在你

必须小心这个你不想

排练

你要写的东西但是你确实

想要有一个很好的选择

如果你可能会说 现在时间到了

，尤其是在雅思考试上

，我知道你们中的很多人都在

为此而学习，但这确实适用于任何

学术写作考试，你现在想

准备连接词和关键短语，

我会给你一个清单

每点有两个例子，它并没有

涵盖你需要知道的所有内容，

但是如果你学习了列表中的所有内容，

你将为

你的英语写作考试做好更多的准备，所以请

注意，如果有任何一点

你认为我真的可以 继续扩展

，做你的研究并做好准备

你想确保你

有多种不同的方法来

以相同的方式比较同时

相反的对比但是举个

例子来说明

你的opi 从我的角度来看，从我

的角度概括所有

被认为毫无疑问地表达确定性的事情

，当然，

以某种方式表达部分同意，以某种

方式表明由于做事的原因-

为此原因显示效果，

因此标记时间开始 在

此之后添加信息此外

还表达条件，除非

提供该条件并简要总结

，因此这只是一个非常简短的

列表，显示您

需要学习的内容才能为任何

英语写作考试做好充分准备现在第

3 点和 绝对绝对

绝对绝对适用于学术写作，即

英语测试或大学作品

不使用缩略词，或者不

使用缩略词所以不能 -

不能不 -

不应该对夏洛特我也是，我是

这些都是收缩的例子

和 在你的写作考试中你想

避免这些我知道你们

真的真的很想保持你的单词

倒计时因为你受到限制

你想尽可能多地炫耀，

但我有很多

减少你的字数的提示，

所以请确保你不要

在

学术写作中加入缩略词，所以提示四

减少你的字数 认为使用尽可能少的单词

是完全矛盾的，

因为我刚刚告诉过你，你

不应该使用缩略语，但我

在这个大技巧中有一些非常非常好的小技巧，

可以帮助你保持单词

倒计时和你的英语

水平 第一个是避免这些无用的

词，比如非常多，我

之前在视频中提到过，但是如果

你想炫耀你的英语，避免

这些它们是毫无意义的，它们

在英语中是空卡路里，而是

用一个强词代替它们，所以 与其说

真的很开心，不如说我很高兴，

而不是说很害怕，我会说

害怕

w

另一种真正减少

字数但真正提高写作质量的方法

是避免存在和

存在我们希望所有内容

尽可能清晰，有时存在

并且存在可以充当填充物，它们会

为我们添加额外的单词 句子，所以我

会给你一个例子，这样你就可以

看到这一点，并在下次

你写一篇学术文章时记住它

句子 1

我们可能会遇到

很多问题 我们可能会遇到很多问题

第 2 句 我们可能会遇到很多

问题 我们可能会遇到很多

问题 第一句话有 8 个单词

第二个句子有 5 个单词 你

减少了你的字数

，你提高了

写作的清晰度，所以确保

你在你的文章中应用这个 下一次考试

五 阅读正确的文件 阅读

正确的文章 我知道

你们中的许多人喜欢在业余时间阅读 你们

喜欢这样做是为了好玩，你们中的很多人

会阅读英文书籍 wh ich

对于提高你的拼写和

提高你的词汇量也很了不起，但是如果

你想在学术写作考试中取得好成绩，

你可能没有

读到正确的东西，

看看他们可能会写的文章

他们会

要求你写文章 报告

论文 可能他们要求你写

所有三个 如果他们都读了所有三个 你

需要上网或去你的

图书馆阅读文章 阅读报告 阅读

论文 阅读评论 尽

你所能熟悉所有

写作风格 第六号是

你在学校里听过很多

次的一种，但我已经当了

很多年老师，我

对愚蠢的错误感到非常沮丧，以至于我

知道我的学生知道

他们在演讲时不会犯这些错误，

所以为什么他们在写作时犯了

这么多次 有些很清楚 r 我的

学生写作中的错误，我准备了一堂课

来纠正这个错误，当我去

教它时，他们说但是老师我们已经

知道这是婴儿用品，这是

因为他们不检查他们的工作我

有一个明确的例子 我

曾经是一名校对员 我曾经在将

文件发送给出版商之前检查文件

，以确保它们

都是正确的 没有

拼写错误 没有语法

错误 没有任何问题

它们都很完美 我很

擅长这样做，我

可以通过

从远处查看文档来发现每一个

错误 不要检查

我不检查我的写作我是一个以英语为母语的

人，我

犯了拼写错误，因为其中许多是由于

我

正在与之抗争的手机上的自动更正，但其中很多是我的

最爱 ult，我不检查它们，所以

我看不到它们

检查你的作品，所以

请把它作为绝对

优先

事项 现在

第七可能是最相关

和最困难的，特别是如果

你在世界上非常偏远的地方，

第七是写，检查

正确，检查，

不幸的是，检查

事情要困难得多 看起来你

想尽可能多地

写，当然，

当我的学生带着五篇论文进来时，我真的很烦

，但他们我很

高兴他们这样做了，但后来我

看到他们做了 l 一大堆

愚蠢的错误，我只是想哦，

你为什么不检查它我只是

一遍又一遍地后悔同样的事情，

但尽可能多地写

，然后看看你是否能找到人

来纠正它 现在我并不是说要找一个

完全陌生的人

，

纠正它也必须

符合他们的利益

但是有很多服务和

笔友网站，如果这就像相互

交流，如果你找到

想学习你的语言的人，他们可以帮助

你学习英语，那么你可以这样做

，或者就像我在 lingo de and you 等服务中提到的

那样 可以花一个

小时来分析

你已经完成并已经发送

的作品，但我要特别对我的年轻观众说，

当你在网上联系人们练习英语时，真的真的真的要小心，

确保 这是一个值得信赖的人，

因为有太多的掠夺者

想与特别是年轻女孩交谈

以练习他们的英语，而这

实际上并不是一种英语

练习，结果却是

完全不同的东西，所以

请小心如果 你有资金，

如果你有时间找一个合适的

老师并付钱给你，这

是保证你有

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