Tackling the GRE Issue Essay: Choosing Your Position

Though instructions can vary slightly, all of the GRE Issue Essay prompts ask whether you agree or disagree with a given position, and to support your position with evidence. In addition, almost all of the prompts ask you to address the other side of the debate (the opposite side from the one you chose). This

Tackling the GRE Issue Essay: Types of Evidence

When you write essays for college or graduate school classes, you can fill your body paragraphs with quotations, statistics, and detailed descriptions of historical events. However, when you are writing the GRE Issue Essay, you will have to rely on your memory and quick thinking to find support for your thesis. But don’t panic! There

Tackling the SAT Writing: Analyzing Language

When you read an article, listen to a speech, glance at an advertisement, or consume any form of media, you may not consciously notice how the language therein affects your processing of the information. Luckily, the New SAT Writing section makes you analyze how someone else creates an argument. Though it may not seem fun now, learning little tricks that people use in written or oral text will prevent you from being a slave to unconsciously agreeing too easily with their points of view.

SAT Sample Essay 8

This is the same article as in SAT Sample Essay 7, yet the response is different. As you read the passage below, consider how Paul Bogard uses: evidence, such as facts or examples, to support claims. reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence. stylistic or persuasive elements, such as word choice or