How to Write Overviews for Maps

Now let’s talk about how to write the overviews for map questions.

This is our final video on writing the overviews.

So here’s our practice question.

You’ve seen this question before.

When we wrote our introduction in this map we have a before and an after version of the map so actually

writing the overview to a map question is quite simple because all you have to do is you have to describe

the before version of the map in the first sentence and you have to describe the after version of the

map in the second sentence.

So you’ll notice that here we essentially have the starting data point.

And here we have the ending data point so all you need to do in the overview of a map question is you

just need to summarize some basic differences between the two maps.

So let’s go ahead and take a look at our first sentence overall.

It is evident that the vast majority of the island used to be undeveloped in the past.

That’s all we have to write.

We’re just giving some very basic information that in the past the vast majority of the island was undeveloped

empty or unused then in the next sentence we have to describe what happened after.

Now here’s our second sentence.

However it underwent significant construction at a later period resulting in the development of infrastructure

and facilities which did not exist before.

So again we’re just giving some very basic information.

We’re saying that at some later period the island underwent major construction so that’s all you have

to write in the overview to a map question.

You just have to summarize the basic differences in the before and the after versions of the maps so

that concludes our section on how to write the overviews for your task.

One questions I hope that you now have a clear understanding of how to write a great overview for trend

graphs comparative graphs process diagrams and map questions in the next section of this course I’m

going to show you how to write the specific details to your essay.

So we’re going to talk about how to write paragraphs number 3 and 4.

So I’ll see you there.