Paper 1123 Account writing tips for students. Students confuse account writing with a report. There are many few basic differences which enable them to write a good account for the paper 1 directed writing question. Students are required to attempt this question with the directions given. Account writing has the word limit of 350 words. Use of good vocabulary, punctuation and use of variety of sentences are important.

1. Account Writing
Fatima Arif

2. Defination
• Account writing is a technique of reporting or describing an event or
experience. This is a written document that preserves knowledge of
events and facts.
• However, account writing and report writing are not the same.
• They differ in terms of format and in some cases, even the tone
or register (degree of formality of language) may vary (depending
situation). But, the core purpose of both these writings is to inform
about certain events.

3. Format of Account writing:
• Heading (optional but highly recommended).
• It will address the audience and purpose. For instance, a heading can be something like this: “To the Principal, an account of the recent trip of school”.
• Date.
• You write a date if you do not write a heading. But, if you do write a heading then, there is no need to write a date. However, writing a heading can be a better choice
because you are addressing the purpose of your account straight away.
• You should make sure that the data is relevant (if added). What does this mean? Let’s suppose that you went on a trip on 10th May 2021 and you have to report an
incident during the trip. The date should not be 20th December 2021 because why would you be reporting an incident that late?
• A relevant date (in this case) can be 12th May 2021.
• Introduction (first paragraph).
• Here, you have to address why you are writing (the purpose). You may have to add some background information (if necessary), depending on the situation. The
purpose of an introduction is to briefly tell about the topic (event or experience) that you are about to write about.
• First content point (second paragraph).
• In your question paper, you will be given three content points. These are the questions (bullet points) that you have to address individually in separate paragraphs.

5. •Second content point (third paragraph).
As mentioned above, this will be the second point given by the question to you which you will have to discuss to get good
grades.
•Third content point (fourth paragraph).
You have to make sure that you provide relevant details that are helpful to the reader. This means that the reader should
be given complete details so that he can reach a proper conclusion.
•Conclusion:
This is a very crucial part of your writing because you have to mention the purpose of your writing again (to summarise
things up). In other words, you have to rephrase the thesis statement.
Then, wrap up the important points and offer them some extra help and assistance (if required). In this way, you will
properly conclude your writing.
•Written by,
•Your full name (or signature).
•Date (if not included at the beginning).