Increase Your Score in 3 Minutes a Day: SAT Essay

by Randall McCutcheon, James Schaffer

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781259588907
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date:	07/05/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	839 KB

About the Author

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.

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

Table of Contents

Writing Principles
1. The SAT Scars You For Life
2. Debunking Grammar Myths
3. Think About the Reader First
4. One Idea per Sentence
5. Hold It Together
6. Making Sentences Hold Hands
7. Save the Last Dance
8. The Long and the Short of it
9. Re-verb-erate
10. Oops, There it is
11. A Fragment of Your Imagnation
12. Tested You will Be
13. Make Pronouns Point
14. All the World's Offstage
15. Gender Bender
16. Don't Misunderestimate the Right Place
17. Pound the Concrete
18. Gobble Gobbledygook
19. Some Words Are Very, Very Bad
20. And I Said What I Meant
Etc.