Increase Your Score in 3 Minutes a Day: SAT Essay - Softcover

Mccutcheon, Randall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071440429 ISBN 13: 9780071440424

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education, 2004

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This accessible guide gives you the tools you need to score high on the new SAT essay.

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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.

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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 University

Master 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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0071440429
• ISBN 13: 9780071440424
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar