Hi friends so this is Avanti from Englishfirm and our topic for today is pte written discourse.
so many of my students have asked me what is written this course and why their written
discourse score is low or what they can do to improve written discourse so before we
dive into that it is very important to know what is written discourse basically is
so the dictionary term for written discourse is to express one's opinion in a meaningful or logical
way so basically all you have to do is you have to express your ideas that follow a meaning and
a logic but pearson describes written discourse as so i am reading this out from the pearson scoring
guide itself so it says written disco skills are represented in the structure of a written text
entailing its internal coherence logical development and the range of linguistic resources
used to express meaning precisely scores for enabling skills are not awarded when responses are
inappropriate for the items in either content or form so you must be like what is that right okay
so basically your essay gives you written discourse marks so yes
so in short in order to improve your written discourse score you need to do well in your essay
so in order for students to get high score and return this course they need to follow
a meaningful and logical sequence of content and also the paragraph structure should be coherent
making use of appropriate vocabulary and punctuation thus if you go off topic or
you just beat around the bush your written discourse marks will be low because you need
to follow a logic you need to have all your points in correct manner it does not matter
that you have all the point but in incorrect manner like suppose when you apply for a job you
give your name first then qualification and then your experience right but if if somebody's applies
for a job and they tell their experience first and then qualification in their name although their
points are same but their structure is all wrong so they will not get good marks for their did in
this course so that's what in short for an example what written this course means it just means that
your ideas you are experiencing in a coherent manner okay so now the main question arises how
you can improve your written discourse score so we here at Englishfirm have provided a few tips
in order for you to improve your written discourse marks because there are so many things available
online that it gets difficult to know which one to follow so here are a few tips in which you can
if you apply those you will be able to increase your written discourse marks enough which will
lead you to in get good marks in your pde okay so there are a few things that you need to do
in order to improve your written discourse score first whenever you get your question always spend
time in order to understand the question so topic understanding and planning out the main points is
very crucial so always read your question first and take time to understand the topic
once you understood the question always plan your essay think about what you are going to write
the main thing is if you don't pick out the main points if you don't understand the topic and if
you go out of the topic you might get low score in your written discourse so always whenever you get
your question don't start writing immediately always take time to understanding the question
and then go with that so at least give yourself a minute or two to get into that zone and think
about your question deeply before writing it down on the computer next thing is always find your
keyword so keywords are the your keyword would be in your question because pd software scans
for your keyword in your essay and if it does not find the keyword in your essay the software thinks
that you're not writing on the topic itself although your points would have been very good
so make sure that you repeat your keyword at least once in every paragraph so every paragraph should
have your keyword if you miss out on that you will lose your marks for it in this course so
make sure to write your keywords in each and every paragraph okay so don't worry about repeating it
again and again it is mandatory that you repeat your keywords so it should be mentioned at least
one in all of the paragraphs because the software will give you your content score based on that
okay so next thing is be coherent so always follow a structure for your essay
make sure that your essay has five paragraphs so five paragraph structure strategy is actually good
so those five paras would be that first para would be your introduction then you should
have your body one body two body three and then finally end it with a conclusion okay
now it gets difficult to think about different different paragraphs and what to write so what we
do at Englishfirm is we provide a template for you so to make your life easy now there are millions
of templates available online and i'll be honest with you you can use any of them but the main
thing is whenever you are using any template make sure it is structured properly and your paragraphs
are flowing in a logical manner which means your body one needs to be connected with your body too
and your body too should be connected with your body three so don't pick any template
online always see for yourself if it follows a logical flow or not now fourth important thing is
your grammar accuracy and lexical resource so yes you need to be grammatically correct in your
essay if you make errors in your grammar you might lose points for your no not mike you
will definitely lose points for your grammar and your written disco score will be low so
not only it is important to address your essay well and structure your paragraph but also it
is crucial to use a range of sentence structures for example you can make use of compound sentences
so compound sentences are the sentences which contain two independent clauses or you can make
use of a complex sentence complex sentence are those sentences which contains an independent
clause and a dependent clause additionally it is also important for you to be familiar with
english punctuation rules including comma colon semicolons and apostrophes so make sure you
know well when to use which punctuation marks always make sure that you write in capital letters
after your full stop and be very careful about your spaces as well another most important thing
when you are doing attempting your essay is time management because you get 20 minutes time for it
and to be honest 20 minutes time is actually not enough time to do well in your essay like if you
have to write it from the very scratch because if you go for different exams like ielts they give
you 40 minutes for the same question so it's 20 minutes it's just half the time right but um why
the PTE give 20 minutes is because the templates are acceptable so you can make use of any template
okay because in the end your writing is depend on how you spend your time right because to be i'll
be perfectly candid with you 20 minutes is not enough like i've said before in order to write for
200 to 300 words essay that's why Englishfirm has made it far simpler for students with the use of
rights template that can be used for any question and it fits all just make sure that you practice
and always take help from your trainer always help for the feed take for help always take feedbacks
and try to improve on that and your written discourse will be all correct if you have any
question you can reach us at englishfirm.com thank you