Essay Study Guide

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Essay Study Guide is not designed to replace your composition text, but rather to address the problems you might have when writing timed essays. It contains three parts:

• Part I. The first part reviews general strategies for writing the CLAST essay and then takes you step-by-step through the process of applying sample topics:
  1. Selecting and organizing the topic
  2. Planning and prewriting the essay
  3. Developing the essay
  4. Revising and proofreading the essay
• Part II. The second part provides sample student essays with an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of each.
• Part III. The third part provides two additional essay samples to give you more practice in writing essays.