Haiku 1

Sweet whipped cream, sweet boy’s sweet kisses slowly wake me from the sweetest dreams.

The Proposal

“Just one bite, c’mon!” I wave the ambrosial cupcake toward you, knowing you can’t not get a whiff of the peanut butter frosting.  “I don’t want it.” “Come on.” I know I’m nagging, but I’m also doing you a favor. You take a bite, probably just to shut me up.  “Yummy?”  “Very. Do you want

Daydreams of Forever

There will be no metaphors or figurative language, no recycling of the past, no ambiguities for creative effect. There will be no excuses, justifications, or rationalizations either. There will only be the truth, unmasked and unforgiving beneath the glaring daylight. There isn’t really anything to talk about either, as it’s all been said and there’s

Tackling the SAT Critical Reading: Essential Vocab

Here is a list of words that you should definitely be familiar with for the SAT Critical Reading section. These words often come up in passage questions, so get memorizing! Aesthetic Allusion Ambivalent Anecdote Assert Assess Belied Characterize Compare Concur Contempt Contrast Conventional Convey Debunk Digression Discern Discredit Disengaged Disinterested Dismissive Disparage Disparity Dispassionate Dubious

Tackling the Argument Essay: How to Outline Effectively

Since you only have thirty minutes to complete the Analyze an Argument task, it is crucial that you spend the first five minutes developing a solid outline for your essay. The steps below will help you use your time efficiently and effectively. 1. Read the directions carefully Your prompt will have one of eight different

Tackling the Argument Essay: Types of Logical Fallacies

When writing the GRE argument essay, your primary task is to poke holes in the argument provided, which involves identifying logical fallacies, or flaws in logic. As the ETS website states, you do not need to be familiar with all of the various types of logical fallacies, but herein we will describe the five that

Tackling the Issue Essay: The Instructions, Explained

Remember those “trick” worksheets your teachers gave you in elementary school that asked you to answer a series of questions, but the directions also said to read all questions before beginning? The last question said something like, “Write your name at the top and skip all other questions.” Our teachers weren’t deliberately annoying us; they

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 GRE Issue Essay: Intro, Part II

If you feel that you’ve mastered the traditional approach to an introduction described in Part I, then maybe it’s time to try out some additional strategies for beginning your essay. These include using anecdotes, rhetorical questions, and definitions. Just like in Part I, imagine you are responding to this prompt from the GRE Issue Essay

Tackling the GRE Issue Essay: Intro, Part I

You’ve probably found that when writing essays for college classes, coming up with the introduction can be one of the hardest parts of the writing process. If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent hours staring at a blank computer screen, waiting for inspiration to strike. Unfortunately, when writing GRE essays, you have minutes, not hours. The good news is that once you have the introduction written, you usually have a good sense of what your body paragraphs will contain, and then the essay virtually writes itself.