This study guide includes five full-length practice tests, proven strategies for success, review of the synthesis, rhetorical analysis, and argumentative essays, and access to online study plans and pre-college information.

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"After students have learned the building blocks of a sentence, it's time to learn how to put them together. Whether making a statement, asking a question, expressing an exclamation, or making a command, sentences do it all. Readers will also enter the world of paragraphs, where multiple sentences work together to express a larger theme. With the support of photographs and fun fact boxes, readers will enter the world of complex grammar"--Provided...

Watch Mark Overmeyer as he conducts six individual writing conferences and one group conference with students in grades three and five. Mark describes how he uses conferences to meet the needs of all writers, including beginning English language learners, advanced students and students who struggle to develop ideas when they write. A bonus section includes a peer conference, in which Mark comments on how to help students support each other. In each...

No matter how much writing you've done in school, the timed essays you'll face on standardized tests present a whole new challenge. This essential guide expertly analyzes what graders are looking for across each of these standardized high school tests and then helps you swiftly and effectively meet their requirements.

Marko the Pencil shows students how to break an assignment into short, manageable tasks and take their writing from mediocre to magnificent! Topics covered include: brainstorm ideas, find a hook to interest readers, organize sentences and ideas, avoid unclear pronouns, use transitional phrases, involve readers with effective dialogue, improve your writing with similes, onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification, and more. Stories, essays, term papers,...

There seems to be widespread agreement that--when it comes to the writing skills of college students--we are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn't caused by a lack of rigor, or smartphones, or some generational character defect. Instead, he asserts, we're teaching writing wrong. Warner blames this on decades of educational reform rooted...

Great writing begins--and ends--with the sentence. Whether two words ("Jesus wept.") or 1,287 words (a sentence in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!), sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Understanding the variety of ways to construct sentences, from the smallest clause to the longest sentence, is important to enhancing your appreciation of great writing and potentially improving your...