Introduction to Part 2 The Recipe

Welcome to part two of this course.

In this part of the course we’re going to start discussing the recipe for writing a great essay.

So in this video I just want to give you a brief introduction to this section.

So this is what the basic strategy for constructing the essay looks like.

The first thing that you’re going to do is you have to write the introduction.

Now when you’re writing the introduction you have to paraphrase the description of the question in your

own words.

This means that in the question that you get for your task one essay you’re going to have a brief description

of what the infographics is about.

So what you have to do is in the introduction of your essay you have to rephrase this description and

you have to paraphrase it in your own words once you’re done with the introduction next you have to

write the overview of the essay.

Now in the overview what you have to do is you have to summarize the starting and the ending data points

as well as the highest and the lowest data points on an info graphic.

So let’s say that we have a line graph in such a case what you would do is you would choose the starting

data point and the ending data points.

Okay.

So this is where the graph starts and this is where it ends.

The next thing that you need to do is you need to choose the lowest data point and the highest data

point so that’s what you have to do in the overview.

Once you’re done with that you have to then move on to paragraph number three in the paragraph number

three.

You have to describe the key numeric details of the graph.

Note that in paragraphs number three and number four we start to discuss the numeric details of the

graph meaning that we start to talk about the numbers and the actual data that is in the graph but in

the overview we only give a brief overview of the data points.

OK we don’t start to discuss the numbers just yet.

We only discuss the numbers in paragraphs 3 and 4.

So in paragraph number three what you have to do is you have to split the info graphic in half.

Then you have to discuss the first half of the infographics in paragraph 3 in paragraph number 4.

You have to talk about the second half of the info.

So again similar to paragraph number three you will be talking about the key numeric details in paragraph

number four so that’s what we do four paragraphs.

Number three and four we basically take the info graphic and we split it in half.

Then we discuss the first half in paragraph three and the second half in paragraph 4.

Now once you’re done with all of this you may have some time remaining at the end.

If you find that you do have some left over time then I suggest that you go back to your essay and spend

that remaining time to check your work.

So that’s the basic strategy for writing the task one essay in the following videos we’re going to be

going over each of these steps in much more detail and we’ll be going through a lot of different practice

questions to make sure that you understand exactly how to write each component of the essay.

So I’ll see you in the next video in which we’re going to talk about how to write introductions.