There are two types of diagrams that you're going to encounter on academic writing task number one.
In this particular lecture, we're going to address the map question.
The map question doesn't appear as often as the line graph, pie chart, bar graph and the table.
But when you get a diagram or a map, you have to be able to know how to handle it.
Now, a lot of students think there's some different type of strategy or process for doing a diagram,
map or process.
And there's not is the exact same four paragraph strategy that I've taught you in all of the previous
lectures.
So let's go ahead and move forward with this diagram map.
As I told you before, same strategy.
Introduction.
General Overview.
Specific detail.
Specific details.
Again.
We first scan for 2 minutes to pull out the information.
Writing 1 to 2 sentence.
Introduction 2 to 3 sentence General Overview.
So in this one, we're going to be looking at this map.
This map is for the small town of Islip.
The maps below show the show the center of a small town called Islip as it is now, and plans for its
development.
So very often with a map, they'll show you the current plan and the future plan.
And your job is to be able to compare the similarities and differences between the two plans.
Really, really straightforward.
The challenge is being able to take these labels and details they have on the on the map and create
sentences.
That's where the real English talent is shown in your ability to create sentences from limited information
of them, thus showing you locations and changes between the way it looks now and how it will appear
in the future.
So when I'm looking at this one, I can see many, many differences.
Many differences, right?
The upper row, the upper shops level has been changed, is replaced with the bus station, shopping
center, car park.
In the past, there were two sets of housing, and now we have four sets of housing.
Two new sets of housing.
And the old housing has been moved.
We have a carriageway that goes around the entire city centre.
We have a pedestrian walk that's been added.
The bottom, the bottom shops row is the same.
The park, we can see the difference.
The park has been reduced in size.
The school has been slightly increased in size.
So we have all this information, all this information, and we use this information to be able to write
our introduction overview.
Now when we write an overview we want to write on, these are the things that are still the same and
these are the things that are different.
Not getting into comparing how they're different.
Just saying what is different.
That's what that is what really goes inside of a general overview.
So to start off, I'm going to go ahead right now and write the introduction and general overview so
you can see what I'm doing.
Och.
There we have it, everybody.
We have our introduction and our general overview.
Very, very straightforward.
I actually love doing a diagram map.
I think it's I think it's easier than than probably the line graph, especially the line graph, the
diagram map.
When you see one of those on your real exam, you should get really, really happy because writing the
introduction and, and pointing out the differences in similarities is all you need to do to be able
to write a great general overview and also write that introduction.
Now you'll notice in this introduction I wrote two sentences and I did that just to show you what it
would appear, how it would appear.
If you're writing two sentences for a for an introduction, because I haven't done that yet in the other
lectures.
Okay.
So now I'll let you take a look at this in the full screen mode.
Right.
And you can see the introduction compared directly next to the map diagram that it's written for and
the general overview.
If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask me about something that I wrote.
I hope that you're able to learn from this introduction and overview.
In the next lecture.
I'm going to go ahead and attack the specific detail paragraphs and show you how this done, how this
is done.
So I'll talk to you soon.
Take care.
All right.
Now let's go ahead and move forward with our specific details, paragraphs for a diagram, map, question
type.
And here you can see all of the information that I'm going to use to write these specific detailed paragraphs,
three and four we have highlighted in green.
That means I'm going to compare that housing information and then I'm going to form a sentence talking
about the shops and the park.
Then we're going to have sentences talking about the bus station and shopping centre, the schools and
the dual carriageway.
So right now, what I want you to do is look at the sentences that I'm structuring.
Look at the vocabulary that I'm using.
Look at the different sentence types simple compound, complex sentences that I'm using.
And please try to learn how to form high scoring sentence structures and how to take information that's
not in sentence form and creating sentences from that information.
I'm going to show you exactly what the examiners expect you to do.
There we have the introduction and the overview.
I put it there for you so that you can see it while I'm writing these specific details, paragraphs,
which I will begin to do right now.
All righty.
There we have the first we have the first specific details, paragraph.
You can go ahead and look at how I talked about the information.
See your job.
Your job to score very well is to show your ability to create sentences.
You have to be able to show your vocabulary because what you're doing is you're adding vocabulary around
these labels and you're showing your ability to compare from a current situation to a future situation.
And there's a lot of different vocabulary.
We have a lot of directional language that we have to use when we're doing this.
All right.
So now I'm going to go ahead and move forward and write the second specific paragraph.
Okay.
And there you have it.
We have the fourth paragraph written, the specific details paragraph.
I hope you were really able to learn from this.
You can look at how I constructed the compound and complex sentences.
This is how you would write something.
If you plan on scoring an 8.5 or nine in your academic task.
Number one, showing a lot of sentence structures, sentence variety, vocabulary, all of this will
really help you score very, very well.
I'm going to go ahead and let you see it in full screen mode.
Really take your time, read through this.
Look at the look at the map on the left hand side so you can see how I got all of this information and
form sentences using that information.
Coming up next, I will be moving forward and writing a diagram that involves a process.
A process.
I'll scan through the details that I'm going to use and go ahead and write a great response for you
that you can learn from so that you're able to do the process at an expert level.
Thank you very much for joining me.
I look forward to talking to you in the next lecture.
I've absolutely enjoyed being your teacher for this academic writing task number one.