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    A+ Guide to Short Answer Essays: A+ Guides to Writing, #4
    A+ Guide to Short Answer Essays: A+ Guides to Writing, #4
    A+ Guide to Short Answer Essays: A+ Guides to Writing, #4
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    A+ Guide to Short Answer Essays: A+ Guides to Writing, #4

    By Alison Plus

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    You studied hard for your short answer essay exam. You outlined your text and reviewed your class notes. You know the facts cold. Does this mean you are ready for your exam? 

    Maybe not. Maybe you also need a strategy to write your answers so that all the knowledge you have acquired translates into a well-organized, concise essay. This booklet can help you construct that strategy by giving you a clear, easy, five-step method for writing a short answer essay answer. Practice this method, perhaps using discussion questions from your text, as part of your test preparation. Practice will make it easier and faster during a timed exam. 

    Please note that a short answer essay answer is just that: short. These are one, two, or three paragraphs meant to answer an exam question or assignment question. For a longer essay, a different strategy and structure is needed. The A+ booklet on Five-Paragraph Essays will give you good advice about the strategy and organization for a two to three page paper, for example, and other A+ booklets address particular assignment types for longer writing assignments. See those for help with longer assignments, but for a short answer essay of one, two, or three paragraphs, use the strategy and organization outlined in this booklet.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlison Plus
    Release dateFeb 4, 2016
    ISBN9781524285852
    A+ Guide to Short Answer Essays: A+ Guides to Writing, #4

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      The book was written short, simple, and yet very informative. I learned a lot of good writing techniques in answering a short-type essay exams in less amount of time. Thank you Allison and Scribd.

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    A+ Guide to Short Answer Essays - Alison Plus

    Short Answer Essays

    By Alison Plus

    Copyright 2013 by Alison Plus

    Published by Four-Ply Publishing

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    Praise for A+ Writing Guides

    From Students:

    Thank you for the guidance. I have made a breakthrough!

    Awesome!

    The grid made a big job seem really manageable.

    The method for turning a thesis statement into topic sentences was very useful and easy to apply.

    I thought proofreading meant you should read the paper and hope you spot the mistakes. Now I have a better way to do that, using the layered technique.

    I thought outlining was a waste of time and a headache. But the 'working outline' was actually very helpful and made me see that an outline isn't about roman numerals and indents.

    This made it all seem really easy.

    I thought I should just write about what happened. If I had done that, I would have left out some important things. Thanks for showing me what was missing!

    Whew! I tried this, and wrote my paper in record time!

    From online reviews at bookseller websites:

    I am currently writing the literature review chapter of my dissertation and this book has been and is very helpful during my writing.

    This book saved my bacon. I had a week to write a lit review paper for my PhD program and until I read the sample I didn't even know what a literature review paper was. The author does a great job in breaking it down into an easy to follow method. Everything from how to organize your paper to how to compose the topic sentence, body and conclusions for each paragraph. I'm almost done reading the book and feel so much more confident that I can do this. Just wish there was an audio companion. Already told all my classmates about the book. Thanks Alison!

    Wow! I have only read a few of the sections in this text and have already found it significantly more helpful than any other book I have purchased so far. I was really struggling with structuring my literature review, but this text offers great insight on organizing the material and flowing between paragraphs. Definitely worth the $3.99.

    About the A+ Method

    You have purchased this booklet because you are looking for help with a writing assignment. Good news! Help is here!

    The A+ Method was developed through years spent working with student writers on a variety of writing assignments. Regardless of the specific assignment type (five-paragraph essay, persuasive essay, narrative essay, literature review, etc.), it soon became clear that students shared one strong concern. They wanted to know what to put where. They had ideas about their topics, and they knew what they wanted to say, but they didn’t know how to present those ideas in an organized manner so that the paper could flow well.

    The A+ Method assists the students with overcoming that concern. Each type of assignment follows a unique writing pattern, and each A+ Method booklet presents that pattern in easy-to-follow steps. The pattern shows the writer what to put where. Along the way, each booklet also addresses other writing concerns typical to a specific assignment type. By focusing on assignment type rather than on writing essays in general, each specific booklet targets the pedagogical goals in a way that leads to a greater likelihood of student success.

    Choose the booklet that corresponds to your assignment type, and then follow

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