Essay and Writing

Editing an Essay

Editing an Essay 800 498 Teaching Staff

The process of writing an essay can be excruciatingly painful. Many have an overwhelming instinct to flee when the first draft is finally complete, which results in them forgoing the…

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SAT Review of Improving Paragraphs

SAT Review of Improving Paragraphs 150 150 Deborah

Overview The Improving Paragraphs subtest of the SAT Writing Test allows students to demonstrate editing and revision skills on a larger scale than the Improving Sentences section. They are required…

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SAT Review of Improving Sentences

SAT Review of Improving Sentences 150 150 Deborah

Overview The Improving Sentences subtest of the SAT Writing test looks very similar to the Identifying Sentence Errors subtest. Students are expected to focus upon one phrase within a target…

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SAT Review of Characteristics of Effective Writing

SAT Review of Characteristics of Effective Writing 150 150 Deborah

Overview The SAT tests writing skills for prospective college students with sentence-based and paragraph-based multiple-choice questions, as well as an essay on demand. Some of the characteristics of effective writing…

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SAT Review of Identifying Sentence Errors

SAT Review of Identifying Sentence Errors 150 150 Deborah

Overview One of the subtests of the SAT Writing portion is Identifying Sentence Errors. These multiple-choice questions ask students to recognize errors in grammar, usage, word choice, and idioms. During…

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SAT Review of Practice for the Essay Section

SAT Review of Practice for the Essay Section 150 150 Deborah

Overview The essay section of the SAT Writing exam gives students the opportunity to write a coherent first draft of an essay in response to a prompt. It is usually…

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Vocabulary Review for the SAT

Vocabulary Review for the SAT 150 150 Deborah

Overview Students develop a good vocabulary as one of the advantages of going to college. It is a result of reading scholarly texts, writing papers and essays, and listening to…

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Deciphering Meaning from Reading Passages on the SAT and ACT

Deciphering Meaning from Reading Passages on the SAT and ACT 720 480 School Tutoring

Overview Questions about longer reading passages on the SAT, ACT, and other standardized tests tap students’ abilities to find and use meaning from what they read.  These skills are important…

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Recognizing Nonstandard English: Diction Errors

Recognizing Nonstandard English: Diction Errors 610 400 School Tutoring

Overview Diction errors are types of errors when the incorrect word is used in a nonstandard way.  Some word usage is colloquial: out of place in a formal essay.  Other…

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Appropriate Sentence Construction for the SAT and ACT

Appropriate Sentence Construction for the SAT and ACT 600 428 School Tutoring

Overview: Some grammar questions on standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT ask students to apply the rules they have learned about sentence construction.  Sentence prompts may include dangling…

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