TOEFL iBT Writing Structure, Analyze and Academic Essays Collection

 On this e-book you will find some guidance on how you should write an essay.

There are then model answers on the following pages for different types of essay and different questions, with some brief guidance on each.

Agree / disagree

Discuss two opinions

Advantages & disadvantages

Causes (reasons) & solutions

Causes (reasons) & effects

Problems & solutions

Compare & contrast

Not every essay will fit one of these patterns, but many do. You may get some of these tasks mixed up. For example, you could be asked to give your opinion on an issue, and then discuss the advantages or disadvantages of it.

The golden rule is to ALWAYS read the question very carefully to see exactly what you are being asked to do.

View this lesson for more practice on analysing essay questions.

An essay is structured like any other essay; you just need to make it shorter. There are three key elements:

Introduction

Body Paragraphs

Conclusion

We will look at each of these in turn, using the essay question above as an example.

This ebook goes through each part of a high scoring answer and explains exactly how to write it.

- See sample high scoring answers written by Examiner

- Discover the elements that have the biggest impact on your score and what to do about them

- Learn what high scoring writing answers look like so you can model them and do the same

- Get lots of sample questions to practice