Writing is way too hard

Jimmy797
Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:59:33 +0000

I’m not sure about that, but any SAT book covers the writing principles. Allow me to tell you that getting a 700+ on writing is the easiest out of all 3 sections. There are only a handful of rules that keep popping up. To beat them, do the following:
Get the Blue Book. Review the writing section in the book. Review the error types that come up. Practice the writing sections from the tests. Review your mistakes and see why they’re wrong - MEMORIZE why they’re wrong so that if something similar comes up you can spot why it’s wrong. Also, you HAVE to know the sentence structure. For example, when you see this: “Although snowing furiously, the children…”, you should DIRECTLY notice that this is an error because children cannot snow, and the sentence implies that the children were “snowing”, and not “it was snowing” as it should be.
Use the Barron’s writing guide as well, it’s helpful.
P.S.: Errors in parallelism always pop up. Always. Know those. Errors in subject verb agreement, etc. There’s only a handful that keeps getting repeated - and the occasional hard question that you have to do by ear (because it may have different rules than the usual ones) so you might miss those unless you read a lot and listen to fluent English regularly.
By the way, if silverturtle says that his writing guide will be comprehensive, I’d take his word for it. Looks like he might be the only prep you need for the rules. But get the Blue Book anyway, you’ll need that in all cases for prepping for the SAT.