Increase Your Score in 3 Minutes a Day: SAT Essay
This accessible guide gives you the tools you need to score high on the new SAT essay.
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"If you want to ace the SAT essay, this is the book to buy . . . a creative approach that actually works and doesn't bore you to death in the process."—Darshan Patel, student, Albuquerque Academy"If Strunk and White did stand-up . . . a serious and funny book."—Matt Barrett, student, Stanford UniversityMaster the SAT Essay—FAST!If SAT savvy is what you seek, this book is the resource you need. Learn the secrets, shortcuts, and strategies to succeed—with only minutes of effort a day.This lively, straight-to-the-point guide presents essential writing principles on English grammar, proven essay-writing strategies that are life-savers when you're under time restraints, and sample essays with revealing commentary on their strengths and weaknesses from a professional grader.Consult this practical guide and in no time you'll learn how to: Use an examiner's eye to structure your writing and cut the clutter Put yourself into your essay—and have the examiner root for you Prepare a Plan B for when you can't think of anything to write Whether you follow the eight-week plan or you need the last-minute approach, let this book lead you to SAT success.Randall McCutcheon is a high school educator nationally recognized by the U.S. Department of Education for innovation in curriculum, with experience teaching English, speech, debate, and journalism. Jim Schaffer, a finalist for the Teacher-in-Space program, is chair of the English Department at Nebraska Wesleyan University, where he teaches English and journalism.
Writing Principles1. The SAT Scars You For Life2. Debunking Grammar Myths3. Think About the Reader First4. One Idea per Sentence5. Hold It Together6. Making Sentences Hold Hands7. Save the Last Dance8. The Long and the Short of it9. Re-verb-erate10. Oops, There it is11. A Fragment of Your Imagnation12. Tested You will Be13. Make Pronouns Point14. All the World's Offstage15. Gender Bender16. Don't Misunderestimate the Right Place17. Pound the Concrete18. Gobble Gobbledygook19. Some Words Are Very, Very Bad20. And I Said What I Meant Etc.
