不知道烤鸭们拿到雅思作文题目一个想法是什么?是马上回忆之前背过的跟题目相关的词汇句型呢，还是迅速头脑风暴要写什么?无论如何，在动笔之前一定要对文章有个大致的安排，在心里面给出一个outline!千万不要提笔就写，然后写到一半发现没思路了，或者写着写着就跑题了~~
　　Planning IELTS essays and finding ideas
　　This lesson looks at how planning better can help you write better essays. I focus in particular on “ideas” – something that catches many candidates out. The two key points are that the ideas you need to write an IELTS essay are fairly simple and it helps to make a difference between ideas, reasons and examples.
　　Problem 1 – not enough ideas 观点不够
　　This is one of most common reasons for candidates to go wrong in the writing paper. They see a question. Try to think of ideas. Come up empty and panic. You will find part of my solution to this below. For now, I will just say that you need very few ideas to write a good essay and those ideas can be simple ideas too. Don’t buy a book on ideas for essays, instead learn this tip:
　　Tip – you need only 2 ideas to write an essay and those ideas are often found in the question.
　　Problem 2 – the ideas are confused 观点混淆
　　This is also a very common mistake. There are plenty of ideas to write an essay. The problem is that the reader/examiner does not know what the main ideas are.
　　Tip – make sure you have one main idea per paragraph. This should be clear from the first sentence of the paragraph
　　Problem 3 – too many ideas 观点太多
　　Yes, some people do have too many ideas. This is a trap for candidates aiming for a high score. In particular, if they are used to writing academic essays. IELTS is a 250 word essay marked on language. That means it is probably much shorter than you are used to and there are no marks for quality and quantity of ideas.
　　Tip – select only enough ideas to write a complete essay – that means one per paragraph.