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MC GRAW HILL Increase Your Score In 3 Minutes A Day Sat Essay by Randall McCutcheon
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; and, 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. 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.