Strategy Overview for the Writing Section

Description:

The multiple-choice questions in the writing section test your ability to identify problems with grammar, language usage, and basic paragraph construction. Your mastery of basic English grammar also plays a role in how your response to the essay question is scored.

Learning resources:

Review the following learning content:

• Strategy overview for the writing section

You also may wish to review the following specific learning topics:

• Identifying sentence errors content: misplaced modifiers and dangling participial phrases
• Identifying sentence errors content: subject-verb agreement
• Improving sentences content: punctuation
• Improving sentences content: faulty parallelism
• Improving paragraphs content: effective paragraphs

Exercises:

Review the CollegeBoard information on the following sections: