Revised and brought up to date with new essays from over 50 popular colleges, this book guides college applicants step-by-step through the essay-writing process. The author advises on how to choose a topic, make a rough draft, then polish and edit the writing into an essay that conveys the student's personality, interests, and thinking. Sample essays with critiques include both winning essays and losers.

Writing a Successful College Application Essay

Ehrenhaft, Ed.D. George

Literature & Fiction

Barrons Educational Series

This newly revised and thoroughly updated edition prepares students for the American College Testing Program Assessment, which is the required college entrance exam at many leading schools. In-depth subject reviews cover all test areas: English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science Reasoning. This edition also includes a new, comprehensive guide tailored specifically for students planning to take the optional ACT Writing Test, which is being introduced during the 2004-05 school years. The manual contains an overview of the ACT, a diagnostic test, and three full-length model ACTs with all questions answered and explained. Other features include added practice exercises, study advice, and test-taking strategies for success. The book can be purchased with an optional CD-ROM, which simulates test-taking conditions, offering computerized versions of the tests with automatic scoring.

How to Prepare for the ACT

Test Preparation

Lehrman, M.A. Robert L.

Obrecht, M.A. Fred

Mundsack, M.A. Allan

College & High School

Updated for today's high school and college students, here's a guide to organizing and scheduling study time, taking notes, and diagnosing subject weakness and areas needing more intensive study. For many years, Barron's Pocket Guides have served high school and college students, as well as business professionals and others, as reliable fast-reference books filled with easy-to-locate information pertaining to all practical aspects of language use. The new editions are attractively designed and printed in two-color type, and serve as especially useful books for the home, school, or business reference bookshelf.

Pocket Guide to Study Tips (Barron's Pocket Guides)

Education & Teaching

Armstrong, William H.

Studying & Workbooks

This all-new, up-to-date edition of Barron's best-selling guide to AP English offers stu-dents substantial help in preparing for both the multiple-choice and essay portions of the AP English Language and Composition exam. It features separate sections on what stu-dents need to know about the craft of writing and what they should know about about language and rhetoric. Each section includes sample questions, strategies for answering them, and passages for reading practice and discussion. The guide also offers four com-plete practice tests modeled on actual released AP exams. Answers to every multiple-choice question are fully explained. An analysis of each essay question is accompanied by suggestions for writing a thoughtful response. The book also contains several student-written AP essays for study and evaluation, as well as an extensive glossary of rhetorical terms drawn from recent AP exams.

AP English Language and Composition (Barron's How to Prepare for the AP English Language and Composition Advanced Placement Examinations)

Business & Money

Education & Reference

This brand-new edition has been thoroughly revamped to prepare students for both the objective and essay sections of the AP English Literature and Composition Exam. Sepa-rate chapters on what students need to know about poetry, fiction, and drama will help them achieve high test scores. Chapters include analyses of selected novels, plays, and dozens of poems often studied in AP classes. This guide also offers four complete prac-tice tests modeled on actual AP exams. Answers to all multiple-choice questions are fully explained. An analysis of each essay question comes with suggestions for writing a thoughtful response.

How to Prepare for the AP English Literature and Composition (BARRON'S HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION ADVANCED PLACEMENT EXAMINATION)

The totally restructured SAT college entrance exam that became effective in 2005 includes an entirely new and very important Writing Test, which consists of two main parts. First is a 25-minute period during which students must write an essay on a given topic. Later, students must answer multiple-choice questions that test their skill in correcting poorly-written sentences, finding mistakes in grammar and usage, and correcting mistakes in the first-draft version of a student essay. This manual familiarizes students with all aspects of the SAT Writing Test and presents review chapters and questions with answers that are designed to hone test-takers' skills. Also included is a helpful overview of the Writing Test and details on how student essays are scored. This manual presents five writing tests. The first introduces students to the test's format and the following four are similar to the actual SAT writing test in length and question types. All tests have answers and explanations, and come with instructions on how students can convert their practice test score to the familiar SAT scale of 200-800.

Writing Workbook for the NEW SAT (Barron's Writing Workbook for the New Sat)

Revised and updated to reflect the current ACT Assessment tests, this manual and its accompanying CD-ROM offers high school students comprehensive preparation for a major national college entrance exam. In-depth reviews cover all test areas: English, Math, Reading, and Science. Because the ACT also offers an extra and optional, half-hour-long Writing Test, the manual includes a writer's guide specifically tailored to meet test-takers' needs. In addition to subject reviews, this book contains an overview of the ACT, a diagnostic test, and three full-length practice ACTs with all questions answered and explained. Students will find additional practice exercises in all subjects, study advice, and test-taking strategies. The accompanying CD-ROM simulates test-taking conditions for the actual 2 hours, 55 minutes ACT test. It presents computerized versions of all tests in the book plus automatic scoring.

Barron's ACT Assessment 2007, 14th Edition (Book only)

Proficiency in fundamental English grammar is required by all high school students who hope to score well on their college entrance exams. This brush-up and review book focuses on improving students' verbal skill and fluency. The opening chapters summarize grammatical terms, demonstrate their functions, and focus on the 24 most common problems in grammar and usage that show up repeatedly on the SAT, ACT, and other exams. Prominent among these pitfalls are subject-verb agreement, parallel structure, incomplete sentences, choice of pronouns, and faulty punctuation. This book gives students a productive approach to test taking, paying special attention to SAT grammar and usage questions, common question types on the ACT's English section, and grammar tests that students must take for high school graduation. The book includes many sample questions with fully explained answers, and offers detailed instruction on answering the SAT and ACT essay questions.

Barron's Grammar Workbook for the Sat, Act...and More

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

This shorter version of Barron's full-size ACT test preparation manual presents a diagnostic test and two full-length model ACTs. All questions are answered and explained. Pass Key to the ACT also offers subject reviews in all four test areas (English, Math, Reading, and Science) plus advice to students who plan to take the ACT's Writing Test.

Pass Key to the ACT (Barron's Educational Series: Pass Key)

A well written application essay gives students a big advantage in the admission process at many of the nation's best colleges and universities. This book guides prospective college entrants through the do's and don'ts of the essay writing process, advising on how to choose a topic, then describing how to create a rough draft and polish and edit the writing into a finished essay. Author George Ehrenhaft points out that a successful college application essay always conveys the student's interests, personality, and thinking in a clear, concise manner. He recommends a variety of strong essay topics, and includes excerpts from successful application essays as well as several full-length sample essays from recent students. Each essay comes with a critique that discusses its strengths or indicates missteps. Here is important instruction and advice for all college applicants, and a solid general guide to good writing.

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Writing a Successful College Application Essay

How to Prepare for the ACT

Pocket Guide to Study Tips (Barron's Pocket Guides)

AP English Language and Composition (Barron's How to Prepare for the AP English Language and Composition Advanced Placement Examinations)

How to Prepare for the AP English Literature and Composition (BARRON'S HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION ADVANCED PLACEMENT EXAMINATION)

Writing Workbook for the NEW SAT (Barron's Writing Workbook for the New Sat)

Barron's ACT Assessment 2007, 14th Edition (Book only)

Barron's Grammar Workbook for the Sat, Act...and More

Pass Key to the ACT (Barron's Educational Series: Pass Key)

Writing a Successful College Application Essay