The written essay is a very important part of the Test of English as a Foreign Language. This manual offers solid preparation, with instructions for organizing details and ideas for a topic, then developing them in clear, grammatical written English. The author provides approximately 185 models essays for students to read and analyze plus exercises in proofreading and editing rough drafts of essays.
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"This book is highly regarded by students and teachers alike. 'In my opinion,' said one student, 'you can write an outstanding essay if you follow the instructions in the book."
—Language Magazine, December 2001
—Language Magazine, December 2001
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Choose Barron’s Method for Essay-Writing Success
Read and understand the author’s overview of the TOEFL Essay
Select an essay topic that interests you
Organize your main ideas
Write a first draft, then follow the author’s directions for editing it
Write a final draft and proofread it carefully
Analyze your essay, referring to the book’s model essays for guidance
It’s Your Path To a Higher TOEFL Test Score
Choose Barron’s Method for Essay-Writing Success
Read and understand the author’s overview of the TOEFL Essay
It’s Your Path To a Higher TOEFL Test Score
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Lin LOUGHEED started his EFL career in 1968 as a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey. He earned his doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University and has received two Fulbright awards: a scholar grant in Sri Lanka and a professor grant in Tunisia. In 1983, he founded Instructional Design International, Inc. to develop English teaching materials in all media. Lin is a past member of the TESOL Executive Board and has served as the chair of two special interest groups: Teaching English Internationally and Materials Writers. He has written over 40 English-as-a-foreign-language texts and has a daily radio show in China on business English.
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
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a wonderful book, especially for non-native speakers,
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This review is from: How to Prepare for the TOEFL Essay (Barron's Writing for the TOEFL) (Paperback)
This is a wonderful book that teaches how to construct a coherent and convincing essay in 30 minutes. It's especially usefully for non-native speakers who have not been trained in writting essay in English. I consider myself fluent in writing in English (I scored 5.5 -- 90% percentile in GMAT writing test), but still find this book helpful. Highly recommended!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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useful,
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This review is from: How to Prepare for the TOEFL Essay (Barron's Writing for the TOEFL) (Paperback)
I highly recommend this book to non-native speakers.I really think there are a few good ideas of how to write an essay in 30 minutes.Just buy the book and take your time to study it!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Very useful,
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This review is from: How to Prepare for the TOEFL Essay (Barron's Writing for the TOEFL) (Paperback)
I have taken the CBT TOEFL a few days ago, and this book was really useful for the Writing Section. When I was preparing for the test, I carefully reviewed each essay example given in this book, and it helped me to become familiar with them in advance.
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In this chapter you will learn a twelve-step program for writing an essay. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
use specific reasons, proofing checklist, single world culture, syntactic variety, topic sentence for each paragraph, other people increases, people visit museums, new movie theater, good roommate, model essays, thesis statement, topic statement, own roommate, transition words, concept map Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In this chapter you will learn a twelve-step program for writing an essay. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
use specific reasons, proofing checklist, single world culture, syntactic variety, topic sentence for each paragraph, other people increases, people visit museums, new movie theater, good roommate, model essays, thesis statement, topic statement, own roommate, transition words, concept map Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Essay Organization Theme, Original Sentence, Topic Number New!
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- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell in Front Matter
- Dictionary of Homophones by M.A. Leslie Presson in Back Matter
- A Dictionary of American Idioms by Adam Makkai in Back Matter
- Painless Grammar (Barron's Painless) by Rebecca Elliott Ph.D. in Back Matter
- Grammar in Plain English by Harriet Diamond in Back Matter
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