Updated Apr. 29, 2011
IELTS Writing
Index of "My Writing Blog" Pages
Page 1: Introduction to "My Writing Blog"
Page 2: Two Essays Graded
Page 3: Hackneyed Phrases
Page 4: Coherence and Cohesion
Page 5: a) How long should a Task 2 essay be?
b) How many times can I repeat the key word of the essay question?
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Writing Test Band Descriptors
The following downloads show you the grading criteria that examiners use to give candidates their scores. Again, (just like the Speaking test Band Descriptors), this is mostly written for English teachers, not students, so you might find it hard to understand. There are Chinese versions of this information available in books and possibly also on the internet.
To download these documents, right-click your mouse and click 'Save Target As ...' or, in Chinese, '目标保存为 (A) …'
Task 1
IELTS Writing Task 1 Band Descriptors (Public Version) (pdf) and here: ielts-yasi.englishlab.net/TASK_1_WRITING_GRADING_CRITERIA.JPG
Task 2
IELTS Writing Task 2 Band Descriptors (Public Version) (pdf) and here: ielts-yasi.englishlab.net/TASK_2_WRITING_GRADING_CRITERIA.JPG
You will need to have a PDF reader on your computer before you can read the pdf documents. If you don't have one, you can download one for free.
Adobe Acrobat Reader from www.adobe.com at this page:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html?ogn=EN_US-gntray_dl_get_reader
Evince. I have found Evince to be a convenient and problem-free little program for reading pdf documents, although you cannot produce pdf documents with it.
http://projects.gnome.org/evince/
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