Teachers constantly complain that they have to mark written work that isn't well structured or that doesn't make sense. They ask their students to plan but the students don't know how to plan.
Students comment that they don't know how to organise their written work and don't like planning.
This tutorial hopes to help both teachers and students.
It shows students how to read questions carefully.
It shows students what a plan looks like and it gives clear tips on how to write clearly and logically developed paragraphs.
It also shows how to write a good introduction.
This is not an advanced level piece of writing but it's very well paragraphed, very well organised and makes good use of signpost sentences and topic sentences. It introduces its ideas very well with linking expressions. Each idea is then developed with an explanation or with an example.
Although it seems simple, it is very well written.
Watch and listen and then try and introduce some of the ideas in your work.
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The piece of writing is a Proposal it was written for the Advanced exam. It highlights the many similarities there are between a proposal and a report. It focuses on the formatting of a proposal and other features of writing which aid the structuring of a proposal: Headings, Signpost sentence, Topic sentences, Linking words. It also looks at developing your ideas with examples/ reasons/ results. It focuses on the importance of writing short clear informative sentences. It raises the importance of using a variety of vocabulary. If you listen carefully you can hear my dog getting bored in the background while I am talking to my computer.
Part 2 includes reports, proposals, reviews, formal letters and informal letters. There are some common steps you can take in the first 10 minutes to plan all of them carefully. Watch to discover more.