English Academic Writing Skills for TOEFL & IELTS

Name: English Academic Writing Skills for TOEFL & IELTS
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Developing Writing Skills for Exams

Created byEser English Academy

Last updated 7/2021

English

What you'll learn

How to write different types of essays for academic purposes.
Distinguishing different formats for different essay types.
Choosing proper vocabulary for academic purposes.
Commonly made mistakes and how to avoid them.
Using proper punctuation for essays.
Confusing words and how to avoid them in essays.

Course content

8 sections • 31 lectures • 3h 4m total length

Introduction1:57

Critical Thinking Part 1 "WHO"8:08
Develop critical thinking to enrich essays by integrating the full prompt and structuring arguments across opinion, advantages and disadvantages, and problem-solution essays, using fast food as a guiding example.
Critical Thinking Part 2 "WHAT"6:15
Explore using the word what to align critical thinking with essays on fast food, including advantages and disadvantages, problem and solution, and positive change.
Critical Thinking Part 3 "WHEN"5:05
Critical Thinking Part 4 "WHY"4:52
Critical Thinking Part 5 "WHERE"4:27
Critical Thinking Part 6 "HOW"4:39

Introduction Paragraph3:09
1st Body Paragraph4:13
Learn to write the first body paragraph by describing a situation, giving examples on money management for students who work after school, and noting long-term effects like ownership and responsibility.
2nd Body Paragraph4:24
Conclusion Paragraph3:35
Academic Alternative Sentences for This Essay by Paraphrasing8:56
Master paraphrasing opinion essays by adjusting wording and conjunctions to express the same meaning, covering money management and interpersonal relationships through varied sentence constructions.
Sample Opinion Essay14:38

Introduction Paragraph3:30
1st Body Paragraph4:55
2nd Body Paragraph4:36
Conclusion Paragraph4:40
Master writing a conclusion paragraph by paraphrasing key points on working from home—advantages, disadvantages, focus, emotional state, and practical and sanitary working conditions—then finish with a clear suggestion.
Academic Alternative Sentences for This Essay by Paraphrasing7:21
Sample Advantages & Disadvantages Essay12:19

Mistakes (1-5)5:26
Identify the first five of 20 common writing mistakes, focusing on grammar and punctuation. Analyze examples from writing about working from home, including run-on sentences, subject-verb agreement, and apostrophes.
Mistakes (6-10)5:44
Address six to ten common writing mistakes in this course: affect vs. effect, incomplete comparisons, and present perfect vs. simple past. Use who for people, and choose boring versus bored when describing feelings.
Mistakes (11-15)7:01
Mistakes (16-20)5:52
Explore the last five English writing mistakes for TOEFL and IELTS, including 'need to' versus 'needs to', 'to' versus 'for' usage, adverb use, will usage, and adverb placement.
Exercises for Common Mistakes8:48

Requirements

Everybody who is interested in English can benefit from this course

Description

In this course, you will be learning about different essay structures, conjunctions, idioms, phrasal verbs, and common mistakes. This course will help you get a higher score on your writing exams. In the course, there is plenty of information related to idioms, common mistakes, phrasal verbs, critical thinking guides, and sample essays. The content is supported by quizzes and exercises. The aim of the course is to help learners improve their writing skills, especially for exam English and also for their academic lives. The critical thinking guide will help the learners to generate ideas so that they will save time during exams, the common mistakes part will be useful for the learners to avoid mistakes so that they won't lose points, the conjunctions part will make smooth transitions possible, the sample essays will give the learners an idea about how a finished product should look like and idioms & phrasal verbs part will enable the learners to decorate their essays with nice expressions that will get them higher scores on the vocabulary evaluation of their essays. Overall, the course is designed for students who want to get higher scores from exams, especially for TOEFL & IELTS, for those who want to enrich their writing skills by learning new idioms and expressions.

Who this course is for:

People who are preparing for academic exams such as TOEFL & IELTS
Students of ESL
Students who have difficulty in writing essays.

English Academic Writing Skills for TOEFL & IELTS

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 2min

Critical Thinking6 lectures • 33min

Opinion Essay6 lectures • 39min

Advantages & Disadvantages Essay6 lectures • 37min

Problem-Solution Essay5 lectures • 20min

20 Common Mistakes5 lectures • 33min

Idioms1 lecture • 11min

Phrasal Verbs1 lecture • 10min

Requirements

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