【PTE】How to write Academicaly in PTE

PTE 技巧 - 7 ways academic writing

1. Use no more than 1 or 2 personal pronouns
2. Use a range of active and passive sentences
3. Use modal verbs
4. Use more formal, more precise words
5. Use the noun form instead of the verb form
6. Avoid contractions
7. Use adverbs to ‘hedge’ your ideas

Use no more than 1 or 2 personal pronouns

Personal pronouns: I, my, me…

Avoid personal pronouns where possible:
This essay will discuss three reasons why…

NOTE: Using I or me once or twice is fine!

Use a range of active and passive sentences

Uses a mix of active and passive sentences.

Active: Governments should prohibit smoking in all outdoor areas.

Passive: Smoking should be prohibited in all outdoor areas.

Use modal verbs

Use might, could and would…

Example: Banning smoking in outdoor areas might deter people from smoking altogether.

Use more formal, more precise words

Uses less common but more precise words: Restricting smoking would…

Uses common words and phrasal verbs: Cutting back smoking will…

Use the noun form instead of the verb form

Noun Form: The prohibition of cigarettes would lead to a much healthier society.

Verb Form: If the government prohibited cigarettes, it would lead to a much healtier society.

Noun Form	Verb Form
demonstration	demonstrate
complaint	complain
request	ask
requirement	need
recommondation	recommond
suggestion	suggest
invitation	invit
development	develop
wastage	waste

Avoid contractions

Instead of writing “It’d” write “It would”

Avoid contractions	Use contractions
It is	It’s
They are	They’re
Would not	Wouldn’t

Use adverbs to ‘hedge’ your ideas

Uses adverbs to ‘hedge’ language such as:

• Probably
• Possibly
• Seemingly
• Apparently
• Arguably
• Perhaps
• Maybe
• Presumably
• Conceivably

Example: Banning smoking would probably…

Uses informal adverbs to make language ‘friendlier’ such as:

• very
• really
• pretty

Example: It was really fun…