This book covers the TOEFL iBT Writing section only; it does not cover Reading, Listening or Speaking.

Twenty minutes to synthesize a reading and a lecture you can’t replay. Ten minutes to respond to a discussion you’ve never seen. Whatever structure you land on in the first sixty seconds is what you’re stuck with.

TOEFL Writing doesn’t score the English you could write given unlimited time. It scores what you can organize and produce inside a hard, fixed window. Most candidates don’t lose points because their English is weak. They lose them figuring out how to structure a response instead of just writing it, and run out of time before their real English gets onto the page.

What’s inside

• How both tasks are scored — the 0–5 rating criteria in plain language, and how your two task scores become the familiar 0–30 scaled score.
• Task 1 — Integrated Writing, fully worked — a real reading passage, real audio for the lecture (exactly how the test presents it), the question, a model response, and the paragraph structure the task rewards.
• Task 2 — Writing for an Academic Discussion — a real class discussion with two classmates’ posts, then a real weak response and a real strong response to the same prompt, side by side, annotated with exactly why one reads generic and one reads as genuine engagement.
• 9 writing toolkits — the Integrated Writing paragraph structure, paraphrasing the reading without copying it, contrast language that makes your synthesis obvious to a rater, time management under the clock, genuinely building on classmates’ ideas, and the last-60-seconds proofreading pass.
• The 10 mistakes that cap most candidates — copying phrases from the reading, writing more about the reading than the lecture, inserting personal opinion into Task 1, ignoring the classmates’ posts, falling short of the word count.
• Nine complete, exam-length mock writing tests — both tasks, nine times over, 18 full tasks, with real audio for every Task 1 lecture and a model response for every task.
• A quick-reference cheat sheet — every task strategy and toolkit for the morning of the exam.
• A bonus TOEFL Academic Vocabulary reference — the high-frequency words that appear constantly across TOEFL passages and lectures, organized by domain, with real example sentences.
• A bonus “Identity Shift” section — a short, neuroplasticity-backed mindset exercise.

Who it’s for

Anyone preparing for the current TOEFL iBT whose Writing score keeps landing below the English they actually have — usually because the clock runs out before the structure comes together. Written in clear B1–B2 English; works as a full course or a final-week sharpening.

Who’s behind it

Written by Dr. Henry English, founder of Concord Black — a school director with a BA in English Language and Literature, a BA in English Language Teaching, a master’s degree in English Language Teaching, and a PhD in English Language and Philosophy — who has spent years watching capable writers run out of time or structure before their real English ever made it onto the page.

Get instant access to TOEFL Writing Mastery — both tasks fully worked, real audio, a real weak-vs-strong comparison, and nine full mock tests — for $9.

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