McGraw-Hill's Conquering the New SAT Writing

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ISBN: 9780071460767

ISBN-10: 0071460764

ISBN-13: 9780071460767

Edition: 2006

Authors: Christopher Black

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Covers the new parts of SAT that students find the most challenging: grammar questions and the essay For the 1.4 million SAT takers per year Author is co-creator of the bestselling McGraw-Hill's SAT I-and his techniques are classroom-tested in his successful coaching school Includes sample student essays at various scoring levels, with scorer's comments, plus sample essay writing prompts for practice

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List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 12/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

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

About the College Hill Method	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The importance of good writing skills	p. 3
Writing: a tool for success	p. 3
Why students are not being prepared for college writing	p. 3
Beware the pitfalls of academic-speak	p. 3
Beware the salespeople	p. 4
The real "secret" to acing the SAT essay	p. 4
The SAT Writing	p. 5
What does the SAT Writing test?	p. 5
What's on the SAT Writing?	p. 5
What is the experimental section?	p. 6
What will I be asked to write about on the essay?	p. 6
How is the essay scored?	p. 6
How will colleges use the SAT Writing score?	p. 7
Isn't it true that Ernest Hemingway would have failed the SAT essay?	p. 7
Don't the essay graders give scores based primarily on length and number of paragraphs?	p. 7
Will colleges see my SAT essay?	p. 7
How is the overall Writing score determined?	p. 7
Are some SATs easier than others?	p. 8
If I take the SAT, will I also have to take the SAT II: Writing?	p. 8
The Essay	p. 9
Lay the groundwork	p. 11
Know what the readers are looking for	p. 11
Read good persuasive prose	p. 11
Learn to read like a writer	p. 12
Be specific	p. 14
Prepare with Source Summaries	p. 15
Practice	p. 22
Know the instructions	p. 22
Overcome perfectionism	p. 22
Analyze the writing task	p. 23
Give yourself time to think	p. 23
Read the assignment carefully	p. 23
Define your terms to show your point of view	p. 23
Stay focused on the question	p. 25
Gather your ideas	p. 26
Brainstorm examples before picking a thesis	p. 26
Keep your mind open	p. 26
Choose specific examples	p. 26
Choose interesting examples	p. 27
Choose manageable examples	p. 27
Organize your essay	p. 29
Craft your thesis	p. 29
Write a manageable outline	p. 30
Connect your ideas logically	p. 31
Play devil's advocate	p. 31
Write the essay	p. 34
Use natural language	p. 34
Use strong verbs	p. 34
Write with personality and intelligence	p. 37
Use personal and concrete nouns	p. 38
Minimize jargon and slang	p. 38
Eliminate wordiness	p. 40
Minimize prepositional phrases	p. 40
Eliminate redundancy	p. 40
Don't state the obvious	p. 41
Eliminate cliches	p. 41
Connect your thoughts logically	p. 43
Vary your sentence structure and length wisely	p. 43
Eliminate sentences to nowhere	p. 44
Choose your words carefully	p. 44
Explain but don't overexplain	p. 45
Leave your reader thinking	p. 48
Don't tell us what you're doing-just do it	p. 48
Answer Key	p. 49
Practice your essay writing skills	p. 51
Practice essays	p. 51
Sample graded essays	p. 66
The Multiple-Choice Questions	p. 73
Improving sentences	p. 75
How to attack Improving Sentences questions	p. 75
Be careful	p. 75
All else being equal, shorter is better	p. 76
Check for danglers	p. 76
Watch out for extra problems	p. 77
Answer Key	p. 79
Identifying sentence errors	p. 80
How to attack Identifying Sentence Errors questions	p. 80
Make sure it's a legitimate mistake	p. 80
How to attack tough Identify Sentence Errors questions	p. 81
Answer Key	p. 83
Improving paragraphs	p. 84
How to attack Improving Paragraphs questions	p. 84
Consider your attack options	p. 85
Answer Key	p. 87
The Fundamental Rules of Grammar for Writing and Editing	p. 89
Interlude: Keeping perspective	p. 91
Don't sweat the small stuff	p. 91
Don't worry about who vs. whom	p. 91
Don't worry about split infinitives	p. 91
Don't worry about ending a sentence with a preposition	p. 91
Don't worry about starting a sentence with And, But, or Because	p. 92
Don't worry about starting sentences with adverbs like Hopefully or Clearly	p. 92
Don't worry about possessive antecedents	p. 93
Don't worry about that vs. which	p. 93
Don't worry too much about bad/badly and good/well	p. 94
Don't worry about disappearing thats	p. 94
Don't worry about disappearing words, as long as they are implied by parallelism	p. 94
The parts of speech	p. 95
Words are what words do	p. 95
Verbs-the sentence drivers	p. 95
Nouns	p. 96
Clauses	p. 96
Pronouns	p. 96
Prepositions	p. 97
Prepositional phrases	p. 97
Modifiers	p. 97
Participles	p. 98
Subject-verb agreement	p. 99
Subject-verb agreement	p. 99
Inverted sentences	p. 99
Intervening words	p. 99
Tricky subjects	p. 100
Trimming sentences	p. 102
Tips for improving your essay	p. 104
Tips for the multiple-choice questions	p. 104
Answer Key	p. 105
Parallelism	p. 106
The law of parallelism	p. 106
Infinitives and gerunds	p. 106
Parallel constructions	p. 107
Tip for improving your essay	p. 108
Tip for the multiple-choice questions	p. 108
Answer Key	p. 109
Comparison problems	p. 110
Illogical comparisons	p. 110
Check for countability: fewer/less, number/amount, and many/much	p. 110
Check the number: more/most, between/among, and -er/-est	p. 110
Number shift	p. 111
Tip for improving your essay	p. 112
Tip for the multiple-choice questions	p. 112
Answer Key	p. 113
Pronoun problems	p. 114
Pronoun-antecedent agreement	p. 114
Missing or ambiguous antecedents	p. 114
Pronoun consistency	p. 115
Pronoun case	p. 116
Subjective pronouns	p. 116
Objective pronouns	p. 116
Possessive pronouns	p. 117
Reflexive pronouns	p. 117
Tip for improving your essay	p. 118
Tip for the multiple-choice questions	p. 118
Answer Key	p. 119
Modifier problems	p. 120
Dangling and misplaced participles	p. 120
Other misplaced modifiers	p. 122
Confusing adjectives and adverbs	p. 124
Comparative adjectives and adverbs	p. 124
Redundancy	p. 125
Tip for improving your essay	p. 126
Tip for the multiple-choice questions	p. 126
Answer key	p. 127
Tense and voice problem	p. 129
Tricky tenses	p. 129
The perfect tenses	p. 129
Verbs expressing ideas or works of art	p. 130
The passive voice	p. 132
Tip for improving your essay	p. 132
Tips for the multiple-choice questions	p. 132
Answer Key	p. 133
Idiom problems	p. 134
What is an idiom?	p. 134
Watch your prepositions	p. 134
Tip for improving your essay	p. 134
Tip for the multiple-choice questions	p. 134
Answer Key	p. 136
Mood problems	p. 137
The subjunctive mood	p. 137
Don't overdo it	p. 137
Watch your ifs	p. 137
Tip for improving your essay	p. 138
Tip for the multiple-choice questions	p. 138
Answer Key	p. 139
Diction problems	p. 140
What is a diction error?	p. 140
Common diction errors	p. 140
Tip for improving your essay	p. 142
Tip for the multiple-choice questions	p. 142
Answer Key	p. 143
Irregular verbs	p. 144
Past participles	p. 144
Common irregular verbs	p. 144
Tip for improving your essay	p. 146
Tip for the multiple-choice questions	p. 146
Answer Key	p. 146
Awkwardness and coordination	p. 147
Coordinating ideas	p. 147
Run-on sentences	p. 147
Using colons and semicolons	p. 148
Tips for improving your essay	p. 148
Tips for the multiple-choice questions	p. 148
Answer Key	p. 150
Three Practice Tests	p. 151
Practice Test 1	p. 153
Practice Test 1 Answer Key	p. 168
Score Conversion Table	p. 169
Practice Test 1-Sample Essay	p. 170
Practice Test 1 Detailed Answer Key	p. 173
Practice Test 2	p. 177
Practice Test 2 Answer Key	p. 192
Score Conversion Table	p. 193
Practice Test 2-Sample Essays	p. 194
Practice Test 2 Detailed Answer Key	p. 197
Practice Test 3	p. 201
Practice Test 3 Answer Key	p. 216
Score Conversion Table	p. 217
Practice Test 3-Sample Essays	p. 218
Practice Test 3 Detailed Answer Key	p. 221
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