interesting article on new SAT writing

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<p>There is a very interesting article in today’s Seattle Times about the new SAT I writing section. This article is reprinted from the Washington Post. A Post reporter was allowed to sit in on a practice session of some of the scorers. </p>

<p>The article explains more about how the essays will be scored. Two scorers will look at each essay, but they look at the essays quickly and work for a long stretch at a time. Very interesting…but a little scary.</p>

<p>link:
<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002153350_sat18.html[/url]”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002153350_sat18.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>You don’t need to register to read this if you read it within the next few days.</p>

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<p>yes</p>

<p>all i know is that im going to use a handful of nice vocab words most highschool kids dont know and as stupid as it sounds, im going to be sure to drop a few semicolons</p>

<p>anything to belie a good essay. with only a minute or so to read an entire paper it seems logical that small things like this would make a good impression on the grader as he glances over.</p>

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<p>If you can believe the referenced article, esoteric vocabulary and punctuation will not be weighted as highly as a well formed consistent argument that has some creative flair to it.</p>