SAT Writing Opening Paragraph Structure???

Jolynne_Smyth
Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:02:18 +0000

I’m thinking that the SAT essay is supposed to be a somewhat persuasive piece of writing (they usually want you to take a side) which can be fairly different from other types of writing assigned in school (e.g., analyze the three most significant causes of the civil war [thus, your 3 choices would go in intro paragraph]). Additionally, because of the time constraint of the SAT and limited room, it’s more of a waste of space/minutes to just reiterate the examples you discuss only 3 lines later (unlike in a 3 page typed paper for school).

Just an idea…