in the last video we discussed about the basic concepts behind ac writing and the scoring
criteria as well now we'll be looking at the ac writing by answering some questions using the
template and i want you to pay attention to how i'm feeling the templates and how i am completing
the ideas here so that you gain an understanding of how to write your write the essay yourself
okay so let's say this is a question i got in the test and as you can see here
on the screen the question has at the top the instructions in the middle of the topic and at
the bottom the question itself and then there is a text box where you are supposed to write
something as you start typing into the text box the word counter will start counting the
number of words and whatever you write inside this box you can cut copy or paste as you like
in order to write our essay the first thing we have to do is we have to type the template and
that means we have to memorize the whole template the template is available just below this video
make sure that you memorize that template very well for the exam
another thing is there are so many templates available in the market right now and you may
have got one from your friends or others we highly recommend that you do not use any templates other
than we what we have provided you with the reason for that is if you use our template then when you
do mock test or mock minis it is easier for us to see how much you have understood the template
and also guide you further if there is any problem with it we cannot give you any suggestions for the
template that you may have got from other sources so let's look at the template here
so the template has three parts basically introduction then it has two body paragraphs
and then at the end it has conclusion and you can see there are some gaps in the template and
you have to learn how to fill the gap now some people tell me sometimes that there are a lot of
things that we have to write in this template is it possible for you to give me something which has
let's say all the words required to write and you just add two or three words and then you
complete the template i'm completely against that approach especially for people who are looking
for 65 and 79 because in that case you need to learn how to modify the template according to
the question as well so that approach of just memorizing everything and changing a few words
does not work if you are looking for more than 65 or more than 79 in your test
now spend some time with this template first make sure that you can remember the whole template
and then we can go to the second step one of the ways you can memorize this template is
read it a couple of times and try to write on a paper and then compare whatever you have written
is written with whatever you see on the screen and then start typing the template on the computer as
well and make sure that you can finish typing the whole template within first five minutes
if you can do this much you are ready to go to the next step so how do we complete the template
then let's have a look at a question and answer it using this template the question here says do
you think experience learning is better than the traditional learning methods now we need
to answer this question and as i said the first thing you need to do is type the template once
you have typed the template completely then you have to start feeling it but how do you do that
and what are the things you need to complete the template that's what we are going to discuss now
first how do i identify these questions okay the first thing is you have to write the
correct type of template and that means you have to identify the type of the questions
the question we are dealing with here is called agree and disagree question or the template that
i'm going to use here can be applied to agree or disagree type of questions so how do i know if
this question is agreed a second type of question or i can apply everyday template to this question
if in the question you see expressions like what do you think which one do you think do
you think what do you think or in any question where they are giving you options like is this
good is that good are you happy with this does it change anything i mean when they're asking you
your opinion then in all those questions you can use agree disagree template even if the question
does not explicitly use the word agree or disagree even then you can use these kind of templates and
the last thing is if the question has used or that means it's agree or disagree question because they
are giving you option and asking you to pick one out of those options so this is how you start the
introduction of agree disagree question and you can see there are three gaps the first gap is a
quick reflection on typical day reveals that so what do you need to fill this gap then there is
second gap after analyze and explain and then the third gap is after regarding this i believe that
now you need to know what are the three things you need to complete the introduction paragraph
all right now see the template is complete now i have written something there in the first step i
have written the appropriate learning method for children in the second gap i have written
whether experiential learning is better than traditional learning and in the third cap i
have not written anything so let's discuss for a minute how did i get this information
the first information i've used here which is the appropriate learning method for children
this one i got from the question itself this is actually the topic of this question
if you look at the question carefully you say do you think experience in learning is better than
the traditional learning method so that means they are comparing one type of learning with another
type of learning that means they are asking you which learning method is better so that is the
topic and that's what i have written here now the question is which top which type of
learning is better that means whether experienced learning is better than traditional learning
so in order to complete the first gap you need the topic from the question
in order to complete the second gap you need to paraphrase the question itself
and in order to feel the third gap you need something that you will get after completing the
safe so for now we are skipping this even in your exam when you are completing the introduction just
feel the first gap with the topic second gap with the question and third gap leave it until
you complete the whole essay and i'll tell you what you can do to complete it later on
now we move to the body paragraphs and even in the body paragraph we have a template
and we organize the information by using a formula called tree tree stands for topic reason effect
and example or in other words what i'm trying to say is when you are presenting your arguments in
the body paragraph you have to write them in the order of your idea which we call topic
the reason for that idea the effect of that idea and at the end example now how do we
write the topic how do we write reason how do we write effect and how do we write example
we use template to do this the topic is written by using this sentence one compelling argument in
favor of my stance and this issue has to do with the fact that and then you give your opinion that
means if you think experiencing learning is better you just write what is one advantage of experience
and learning if you think traditional learning methods are better you write one advantage of
traditional methods of learning so that is your topic then you give the reason for that this is
because you have to say why why what you said is true or is helpful then you have to write
the effect of that and then example it will be easier for us to understand this whole thing if
we look at examples so let's get started with that as well topic one compelling argument in favor
of my stance and this issue has to do with the fact that experiential learning provides better
understanding of the topic so you can see here i'm choosing experience and learning over traditional
learning and one of the benefits that i think experiences learning has is it provides better
understanding of the topic now i have to say why does it provide better understanding of the
topic and the reason for that is this is because children are more engaged when they are learning
in this way so i'm just giving the reason for one of the points that i have made here now i
have to write effect of this or in other words if children are more engaged when they are learning
what is the positive outcome because of this and that positive outcome is as a result they
are more concentrated on the topic and learn more effectively let's look at these three things one
more time before we move on to the example part topic write what you feel about the given question
reason also include why you think in that way and at the end write what would be the effect of
that idea so topic here is better understanding reason more engaging effect
more concentrated and effective learning example now in the example try to incorporate
all these three things topic reason and effect that where example looks more relevant and more
impressive as well to put this into perspective multiple studies have shown that children gain
more knowledge from the practical sessions than they do from theoretical sessions in classroom
so you can see this example is actually including the ideas from both topic reason and effect
so this is how you expand your idea by using tree formula let's do it one more time for the next
paragraph remember in the next paragraph as well although we'll use template our organization of
information will again be in the same order from topic to reason to effect to example at the end
one thing about example you will not have example all the time and if that is the case you don't
have to include the example it's not compulsory unless the question asks you to give one example
otherwise you can simply not write example now again the topic for this paragraph because i'm
writing why experience in learning is better my next topic will be the next benefit and you hear
you can see experience and learning produces better long-term outcomes so the topic here for
this paragraph is better long-term outcome now i have to think why do we have better long-term
outcomes with experience in learning and the reason is the information acquired from this
type of learning is more lasting that means you remember it for a longer time if you remember the
information for a longer time what is one more positive thing that happens what is the effect
which can be used when they need to solve real world problems that means in the real world when
you really have to apply your knowledge you don't have to think much and you can easily apply the
information to answer the question any example of that if you have you can give example if not
you can simply skip this part and then you can see yourself that i've skipped example part here
now is the time for us to give conclusion again we are using a template here in the conclusion now in
the conclusion the only thing we are going to do is we are simply going to summarize what we said
in body paragraph 1 and body paragraph 2. now if you think about what i said in the body paragraph
1 about experience in learning then i said that it helps you in understanding the topic better and in
the second paragraph i said that the information you learn by using experiential learning is more
lasting now i just have to summarize those two points in these two gaps
so you can see here i would stress that topic not only first benefit but also the second benefit
therefore i have a notion that i'm going to pick this particular one as an example in conclusion
based on the arguments above i would stress that topic experiential learning not only improves
children's understanding first benefit of the issue but also produces lasting results that
is the second benefit i mentioned therefore i have a notion that it is a more suitable method
of learning for children so i'm making a choice by saying experience in learning is better which
means i have just answered the question they asked one more time now if you remember in the
beginning we had escaped the thesis statement part or the last sentence of the introduction
now we can write that sentence effectively and in an impressive manner as well so how do we do that
and what do we write there in that sentence we simply have to paraphrase the first sentence of
the conclusion so the first sentence of conclusion here is i would stress that experience in learning
not only improves children's understanding of the issue but also produces lasting results i'm
going to write the same thing but in a slightly different way so you can see here regarding this
i believe that children can learn better with the former method which means better learning
because it is more insightful and effective in the long term and you can see i'm talking about
the long term path now the language i have used is a little difficult to
write in simple way what you can simply do is regarding this i believe that children
can understand topics better and retain it for a longer time when they use experiential learning
that is another way of writing the same thing so this is the end of this essay writing so let
me quickly tell you what we have done here so in summary what did we do in this exercise we first
wrote the introduction and in the introduction there were three caps we only filled two gaps
the first cap was filled with the topic and the second gap was filled by paraphrasing the question
then we moved to the first body paragraph where we wrote whatever we wanted to write by using a
formula that means we first expressed our opinion which we call topic then we gave the reason for
having that opinion and then we also wrote the effect of that and then we gave one example we
repeated the same thing in the next paragraph as well and this time we had second benefit of our
second important point related to whatever option we chose we gave the reason we wrote effect but we
did not write example because it is optional and we didn't really have a good example to write here
then we went to the conclusion in the conclusion we just summarized the main point of body
paragraph one as well as body paragraph two and then we wrapped up by re-expressing our
opinion one more time and then we wrapped up by reiterating our opinion one more time
once we finish the conclusion part we just paraphrase the first sentence of the conclusion
to write the last sentence of the introduction so this is how you write an essay in another video
i'll be showing you one more question and i'll show you how i'm going to apply these methods to
answer any kind of question if you are not sure about what we did here or if you are not exactly
clear about what you are supposed to do i suggest that you watch a small segment of
video at one time what that means is learn how to write introduction once you learn how to write
introduction then try body and then try conclusion because this way you will not have the burden of
understanding everything in one go and it will be easier for you to understand ac writing process
that's it for this screencast in the next one we'll answer
one more question of agree or disagree type