- Expert strategies and simplified methods to produce focused responses
- Fourteen solved essay topics with strategies to be used as a benchmark
- Scoring guides for Issue and Argument tasks as per the GRE Guidelines
- Analytical Writing Tasks for additional practice
Analytical Writing Insights on the GRE General Test
Categories: GRE Analytical Writing, Test Prep Series
$19.95
Description
Analytical Writing Insights on the GRE General Test, as the name suggests, covers everything you need to know about the Analytical Writing section of the GRE revised General test. It features the different question types, scoring pattern, solved essays, tips, tricks and strategies separately for both the analytical writing tasks.
The tasks in the Analytical writing section of GRE are now more specific. That means you are now expected to provide more focused responses based on the presented tasks. Analytical Writing Insights on the GRE General Test pins down expert strategies and simplified methods you need to follow to get those focused responses leading to a higher score. Solved responses to 7 Analyze an Issue topics and 7 Analyze an Argument topics are preceded by ample prewriting activities including but not limited to rephrasing the topic statement, identifying the evidence, assumptions, facts and claims, posing an alternative point of view and developing your position.
• Easy to understand writing techniques
• 14 solved Essay topics
• 7 solved Issue tasks with strategies
Table of Contents
Scoring Guide
Issue Task 2 – Dissuade students unlikely to succeed
Issue Task 3 – Restrictions on scientific research
Issue Task 4 – Education free of charge
Issue Task 5 – Competition for high grades
Issue Task 6 – Preserve wilderness area
Issue Task 7 – Well-being of society
Scoring Guide
Preparing for the Argument Task
Argument Task 2 – Consuming salicylates (prediction)
Argument Task 3 – Woven baskets
Argument Task 4 – Letter from Central Plaza store owner
Argument Task 5 – Dura-Sock, Inc.
Argument Task 6 – Happy Pancake House
Argument Task 7 – Stanley Park
Practice Exercise 2
Practice Exercise 3
Additional information
Binding | Paperback |
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Author | Vibrant Publishers |
Edition Number | 3 |
ISBN13 | 9781946383686 |
Language published | English |
Pages | 108 |
Publisher | Vibrant Publishers |
Kerrie, Amazon Reviewer
Analytical Writing Insights on the GRE General Test (Test Prep Series Book 14) is a well-written, well-organized, and highly informative book. If you are like me and find the GRE to be incredibly anxiety-inducing, then I would highly recommend that you check this book out. I found this book to be an excellent study tool with strategies that were genuinely helpful. I was able to work through this book an hour or so a day for a few weeks, making sure to take my time to get the full in-depth explanations and felt much better by the time I was done. The book starts off with some basic information about the test itself. The explanation of the scoring system was something I found particularly useful. The book presents examples that offer different strategies to learn. I really liked the breakdowns of the examples as they are really in-depth and provide a lot of information to think about. The writing section is always something that provides me extra stress because I do not know how to study for that section. But this book provides some great strategies that give you something to practice and evaluate your essay writing. From pros and cons, assumptions, discussions, backing up your statements, and more. This made the whole thing much less stressful as it made the test feel less ambiguous and mysterious. Just having example essays to read did a lot for this. The practice sections were particularly useful and enabled me to put my anxiety into a solid and helpful study system. I found this book to be a great resource that provided me with a positive supply of study tips and exercises. If you are getting ready to take the GRE general test and are looking for some great study resources, then this book might be your answer. It was mine!
Grady Harp, Amazon Reviewer
This small in size by large in content book is a part of the Test Prep Series published as guides to those who are preparing for Graduate Record Exams. No book is going to guarantee a students passing these ominous examinations, but the writers of this series allow some of the most positive preparation techniques currently available.
This particular book provides analytical writing insights for the REVISED GRE general test. The book is itself a test, but a test taken in the quiet of the student’s space, acclimating the student for the concepts presented in the GRE. As the book states in its introduction, ‘The Analytical Writing Measure is intended to assess your ability to think critically and write effectively about a topic while following specific directions.’ Two tasks are presented: 1) Analyze an Issue and 2) Analyze an Argument. The book then supplies tow portions and allows the reader/student thirty minutes to complete each. It then provides a scoring guide of issue and Argument that are relevant to the revised GRE regulations and guidelines.
The book finishes with 10 solve essay topics with input on how to approach each topic, and finally 10 practice exercises to polish off the lessons learned. Though the information here listed will probably only be understood by those preparing for taking the GRE – this is hardly an entertaining book for the non-student to read! But the careful and smoothly worded manner in which this book is written will make the material easily understood by those in preparation phases for the GRE. AND the important aspect of this manual is that it takes into account all of the changes on the GRE since August 1, 2011! It would seem almost negligent not to pay attention to this new and very helpful guide.