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IELTS Writing for Success - New podcast! 🎉

Big news from Maria and Rory! They're starting a brand new project, taking you behind the scenes of high-level IELTS essays. Follow along as they brainstorm, plan, and write on the spot. Ready?

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IELTS Writing for Success - New podcast! 🎉
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It's Maria and Rory here! We are starting a new podcast called "IELTS Writing for Success"!

With this podcast we aim to give you an insight on how to write high level IELTS essays. Every episode is a new essay, which we will be writing on the spot, to keep it real and help you follow the course of writing as it happens. We'll be showing you our brainstorming, planning, and writing processes (and have fun along the way, of course). You will learn what it takes to write a great IELTS essay and how to write one yourself!

Listen to the first full episode and read the essay here: https://bit.ly/3yDYkkj

Follow us on all podcast platforms: https://fanlink.to/ieltswfs

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