Welcome to part two of this course. In this part of the course, we're going to start discussing the recipe for writing a great essay. So in this video, I just want to give you a brief introduction to this section. So this is what the basic strategy for constructing the essay looks like. The first thing that you're going to do is you have to write the introduction. Now, when you're writing the introduction, you have to paraphrase the description of the question, in your own words.
This means that in the question that you get for your task one essay, you're going to have a brief description of what the infographic is about. So what you have to do is in the introduction of your essay, you have to rephrase this description, and you have to paraphrase it in your own words. Once you're done with the introduction, next, you have to write the overview of the essay. Now in the overview What you have to do is you have to summarize the starting and the ending data points as well as the highest and the lowest data points on an infographic. So let's say that we have a line graph. In such a case, what you would do is you would choose the starting data point and the ending data points.
Okay, so this is where the graph starts. And this is where it ends. The next thing that you need to do is you need to choose the lowest data point and the highest data point. So that's what you have to do in the overview. Once you're done with that, you have to then move on to paragraph number three. In the paragraph number three, you have to describe the key numeric details of the graph.
Note that in paragraphs number three, and number four, we start to discuss the numeric details of the graph, meaning that we start to talk about the numbers and the actual data that is in the graph. But in the overview, we only give a brief overview of the data points. Okay, we don't start to discuss the numbers just yet. We only discussed the numbers in paragraph three and four. So in paragraph number three, what you have to do is you have to split the infographic in half, then you have to discuss the first half of the infographic in paragraph three. In paragraph number four, you have to talk about the second half of the infographic.
So again, similar to paragraph number three, you will be talking about the key numeric details in paragraph number four. So that's what we do for paragraphs number three and four. We basically take the infographic and we split it in half. Then we discussed the first half in paragraph three, and the second half in paragraph four. Now once you're done with all of this, you may have some time remaining At the end, if you find that you do have some leftover time, then I suggest that you go back to your essay and spend that remaining time to check your work. So that's the basic strategy for writing the task one essay.
In the following videos, we're going to be going over each of these steps in much more detail. And we'll be going through a lot of different practice questions to make sure that you understand exactly how to write each component of the essay. So I'll see you in the next video, in which we're going to talk about how to write introductions.