Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Journal #34: ACT Argumentative Essay

There are several good ways to write an argumentative essay but the ACT demands their argumentative essays in a certain format with certain things highlighted to get your point across. First off you need to pick which side of the topic you will be supporting. You can't go one way or another you have to concrete your side in your essay so you make it clear which side you are supporting. The best score you can get is a 6 out of 6 and two judges score it so there is a maximum of 12 points to receive on the ACT writing portion. If you can get a 12 you are a pretty good righter and are deserving of that. So you right your essay and mention the counterargument disproving it and arguing for your side of the argument being the better side. So you do all of this and hopefully you have a pretty solid argument on your side using a decent amount of support for your claims as to why the argument you are supporting is the better side and why you are more awesome than the counter to your argument. After you've got your really sweet essay done you need to proofread. If you have a bunch of silly grammatical mistakes or you use the wrong words it will detract from your score, but if you only have a few where you are missing periods, commas, and whatnot it's not a big deal and you shouldn't get any points detracted from your score. So these are the steps that are necessary to getting an awesome 6 out of 6 your writing essay. I still have about 50 words left in this blog however so I need to talk more about your awesome ACT writing style and whatnot. Just use support and don't make a fool out of yourself when you are putting your points in your essay. Make sure you mention why you are better than the counter argument and don't make any stupid grammatical mistakes then you are pretty set on getting a good score on your essay. HIGH FIVE FOR AWESOME. YEAH! *Freeze frame*

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