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SAT Essay: “The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.”
At the suggestion of an excellent student, and friend, I recently bought the "SAT Writing Workbook" and its companion guide for math, from Kaplan. In Practice Test A on p. 187, it gives this writing prompt: Consider carefully the following statement(s) and the...
Juice Up your Writing: Use nouns as VERBS
Looking for ways to beef up your writing? Take a good look at the VERBS you employ. Verbs are to writing what jet fuel is to airplanes. One helpful way to boost your verb power is to take words that are usually nouns, but use them as verbs. Here are a few examples: 1....
A Great Hook!
What's a hook? Just as a physical hook lets you catch and keep a fish, a written hook helps you catch and "keep" a reader. Research shows the average reader will read something for about 5-6 SECONDS before deciding to drop it or keep reading. So, it's essential to...
Past vs. Passed??
Ah, homophones...."What is a homophone?" you may ask. The stem "homo" means "same," and the stem "phone" means "sound," so homophones are different words that sound the same. And two particularly tricky ones are "past" and "passed." If you are confused, join the club....
The Man who moved a mountain
Over the summer the students in our Writing Boot Camp worked on their writing skills and read a novel based on a true story set in Southwest Virginia. The book is the life story of Reverend Bob Childress, a preacher who went in to teach Christianity in what was then...
A Main Take-Away
Recently a friend send me this blog post about leadership: "Thoughts about Leadership" My friend also invited us to respond with one major "take-away" from the article. (A "take away" is the main idea or lesson you take from reading or hearing something new.) That is,...
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