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ACT v17.10 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. Contents Writing (ACT Essay) 3 Intro to ACT Writing 4 Sample ACT Essay 6 ACT Essay Scoring 12 Analyzing the Prompt 18 Organizaing Your Essay 21 Features of Top Scoring Essays 26 Plan Ahead 28 Practice Prompt #1 32 Practice Prompt #2 38 Practice Prompt #3 44 Practice Prompt #4 50 Practice Prompt #5 56 Recommended Reading List 63 Vocabulary Resources 67 Word Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes 69 Tone / Attitude Words 73 Other Essential Words 77 Synonym Clusters 81 Math Vocabulary 139 Tips for Test Day 147 Notes 150 ACT v17.10 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 3 Writing (ACT Essay) The Optional ACT Writing Test consists of a 40-minute essay. It is administered following a short break at the end of the four multiple-choice tests. According to the ACT, the Writing Test is optional, but you should keep in mind that many universities require applicants to submit the Writing Test as part of their ACT scores. It is therefore a good idea to take the Writing Test unless you’re 100% certain that none of the colleges you plan to apply to require the Optional ACT Writing Test. The ACT Writing Score will not aff ect your scores on any of the other multiple- choice tests. Rather, you will receive two additional scores: a combined English Language Arts (ELA) scaled score from 1 - 36 and four Writing Test subscores from 2 - 12. ACT writing prompts include short statements from three perspectives relating to issues or controversies facing modern society. You are still free to side with one of the given perspectives, but you’ll now be tested on your ability to evaluate the perspectives and analyze the issue based on your reasoning, knowledge, and experience. 4 The Official Instructions: Directions This is a test of your writing skills. You will have forty (40) minutes to read the prompt, plan your response, and write an essay in English. Before you begin working, read all the material in this test booklet carefully to understand exactly what you're being asked to do. You will write your essay on the lined pages in the answer document provided. Your writing on those pages will be scored. You may use the lined pages in this test booklet to plan your essay. Your work on these pages will not be scored. Your essay will be evaluated on the evidence it provides of your ability to: • Analyze and evaluate multiple perspectives on a complex issue • State and develop your own perspective on the issue • Explain and support your ideas with logical reasoning and detailed examples • Clearly and logically organize your ideas in an essay • Effectively communicate your ideas in standard written English Lay your pencil down immediately when time is called. DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL TOLD TO DO SO. LET’S BREAK THAT DOWN. Basically, the instructions read: 1. You’ve got 40 minutes to plan and write your essay. 2. You must take a position in your essay, evaluate the other perspectives you're given, and show the relationships among your position and the other perspectives. 3. Write legibly within the four (4) pages provided. 4. Write well. On the next page, we’ll examine each instruction in greater depth. ACT v17.10 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 5 Understand the Instructions 1. You’ve got 40 minutes to plan and write your essay. Time is a factor! Consider the prompt carefully. Then, take a moment to plan your essay before you begin writing. Sketch a quick outline of your essay in space provided in test booklet, not the 4-page essay sheet. Remember, this is your road map, so make it a good one. You want to make sure you don’t just start writing whatever comes to mind. The readers know that this essay is a first draft, but the more it sounds like a polished final draft, the better you’ll score. 2. You MUST take a position, evaluate the other perspectives you're given, and show the relationships among the other perspectives. Help out the essay grader by making your thesis statement obvious. Directly address each of the three perspectives. Make it very clear whether you agree or disagree with each perspective, and don't forget to include evidence that supports your position. 3. Write legibly within the four (4) pages provided. The good people from the ACT will provide you with four full pages on which to compose your essay. All they ask in return is that you write legibly, so they can read it. 4. Write well. According to the rubric for ACT graders, you’re being graded on four domains: • Ideas and Analysis • Development and Support • Organization • Language Use That said, it turns out that it’s really difficult for an ACT essay grader to quickly evaluate the quality of an ACT essay. That takes time. And time is one thing the readers don’t have to spare. As a result, they grade essays as quickly as possible, taking only about 2 minutes per essay. Maintaining that frantic pace can be pretty stressful, but you can make their lives easier by using good structure and clear transitions that help the reader to quickly understand your argument. On the next page, we’ll take a look at a sample prompt from ACT.org. 6 Intelligent Machines Many of the goods and services we depend on daily are now supplied by intelligent, automated machines rather than human beings. Robots build cars and other goods on assembly lines, where once there were human workers. Many of our phone conversations are now conducted not with people but with sophisticated technologies. We can now buy goods at a variety of stores without the help of a human cashier. Automation is generally seen as a sign of progress, but what is lost when we replace humans with machines? Given the accelerating variety and prevalence of intelligent machines, it is worth examining the implications and meaning of their presence in our lives. Read and carefully consider these perspectives. Each suggests a particular way of thinking about the increasing presence of intelligent machines. Perspective One Perspective Two Perspective Three Essay Task Write a uniﬁ ed, coherent essay in which you evaluate multiple perspectives on the increasing presence of intelligent machines. In your essay, be sure to: • Analyze and evaluate the perspectives given • State and develop your own perspective on the issue • Explain the relationships between your perspective and those given Your perspective may be in full agreement with any of the others, in partial agreement, or wholly different. Whatever the case, support your ideas with logical reasoning and detailed, persuasive examples. What we lose with the replacement of people by machines is some part of our own humanity. Even our mundane daily encounters no longer require from us basic courtesy, respect, and tolerance for other people. Machines are good at low-skill, repetitive jobs, and at high-speed extremely precise jobs. In both cases they work better than humans. This efﬁ ciency leads to a more prosperous and progressive world for everyone. Intelligent machines challenge our long-standing ideas about what humans are or can be. This is good because it pushes both humans and machines toward new, unimagined possibilities. ACT v17.10 Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 7 Planning Your Essay Your work on these prewriting pages will not be scored. Use the space below and on the back cover to generate ideas and plan your essay. You may wish to consider the following as you think critically about the task: Strengths and weaknesses of the three given perspectives • What insights do they offer, and what do they fail to consider? • Why might they be persuasive to others , or why might they fail to persuade? Your own knowledge, experience, and values • What is your perspective on the issue, and what are its strengths and weaknesses? • How will you support your perspective in your essay? Clearly, there's a lot to consider as you plan and write your essay! Lucky for you, we've broken the job down into a short series of easy-to-understand tasks. The most important of these tasks is to PLAN your essay before you begin writing! 1. Identify who is affected and how, including the fundamental rights that the issue threatens. 2. Evaluate each of the THREE perspectives on the issue and identify which is the strongest, weakest, etc. 3. Discuss the relationship among the three perspectives and your own perspective. Over the next few pages, we'll walk you through the best way to plan your response to the Enhanced ACT Writing prompt. First, let's take a look at a top-scoring response to the prompt on the previous page. Ordinarily, you'd use this space to plan your essay, but in this case, we've used this space to give you some tips. uploads/Ingenierie_Lourd/ essay-guide.pdf