SparkNotes: The Essay: Essential Strategies

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Tackling the Essay

Essential Strategies

The scoring rubric rewards essays that are:

Well organized
Well supported
Well written

These goals are related but somewhat separable. Since you only have 25 minutes to achieve these three goals, it makes sense to split them up. That’s where our step method comes in.

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