Examining ACT Essay Examples
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We spend a lot of the time speaking about all the essential aspects of a good ACT style essay. In this episode we will take a good look at some sample essays which were published by actual students in response to an ACT style prompt. Furthermore they were graded by actual teachers and evaluated from the ACT Rubric, so just a reminder the Rubric is going to consider seven indicators when it comes to ACT within their knowledge of task, position, complexity, development, organization, sentences and word choice and grammar. So let’s have a look at those essays and find out how they compare well in the scale.
Let’s take a look at example essay number one, go directly to the bonus materials and download it. It scored an 11 this means one teacher gave it a five plus one teacher gave it the utmost points that are possible which was a six. I’m going to read through the very first paragraph to you but, it will be required for you to have it printed call at front of you. Alright so it starts, ‘The perennial problem facing schools in the united states today is dropout rates. This blight that is stubborn refused to go away despite of a variety of methods enacted by schools to get rid of it. In a school that is certain two of those methods have now been proposed-either offering free tutoring or offering a wider selection of classes. Even though basic concept of free tutoring sounds attractive, the clear answer is based on offering a wider selection of classes, which ultimately encourages students to stay in school.’ This essay continues on to give ample support of information about why it is important to give a wider variety of classes and in addition really hummers home a counter that is strong that shows why free tutoring just won’t work. Let us take a good look at how it measures up to some of the indicators that are key we have discussed earlier. We are going to lump some of these indicators together simply for easy sake simply because they really go in conjunction. So why don’t we talk about how it did with ‘task and position.’ This essay did an extremely solid job of setting within the task, showing a knowledge from it after which taking a position that is strong. Very clearly the essay states, ‘The solution lies in offering a wider number of classes, which ultimately encourages students in which to stay school.’ They truly are not straddling in the fence, you are told by them what it is they’re going to prove which they should go with ‘the offering a wider number of classes,’ and gives the main reason. The real reason for that is that ‘it ultimately encourages students in which to stay school.’
Alright let us take a good look at ‘Complexity and development.’ So listed here is in which the readers are actually looking with specific examples for you to show a global view that you’ve considered all different viewpoints and then supported it. Therefore we’re planning to take custom-writing a look at three spots in this specific article where this writer really does a job that is great. The very first position the writer tops is, ‘the biggest reason behind students dropping away from school is certainly not inability but apathy. what my not brighten those paths is tutoring that is free. This technique hinges on the erroneous belief that bad grades lead to dropping out.’ And so the reason I pulled this put is an extremely great example is the fact that this writer presents a really interesting premise, rather than just saying we usually have a wider variety of classes since it provides motivation, this writer kind of is out on a limb and says ‘well I want to correct the prompt actually.’ Instead of saying that ‘the difficulties with schools is dropping out because of inability’ which is what suggested i will go out there and say that it is apathy. So it suggests an interesting premise which is really great complexity there. Another great thing that this essay does is ‘Although the thought of free tutoring sounds attractive, offering a wider variety of classes to attract students each and every stripe is thus the preferred method.’ So here that counter is had by us argument. Like we said in the counter argument episode is the way to create that strong counter argument so it introduces this idea ‘although the idea of free tutoring sounds attractive,’ but then it goes ahead and dismisses it.
Finally the essay says ‘The encouragement based on an interesting class often spills into other classes as well. when a student is thinking about a class, he’s encouraged to work harder.’ Here we have a good example. Now in my opinion this example might be a little bit more specific by speaking about a specific student or maybe specific classes and maybe that is why one of the scorers gave it a five in place of a six. But it’s a good backup, it is good support to demonstrate that offering a wider number of classes will actually encourage students to stay in school, so quite strong complexity, very strong development.
Organization wise essay number a person is solid, it’s logical, it introduces the counter argument and it really expands on the arguments that it’s making.
The only really nice benefit of it is that essay number 1 is a good exemplory instance of using natural transitions. And then we talked concerning this in an early on episode, but let me reveal just a really solid example. In the event that you glance at the end of body paragraph number 1 it ends aided by the sentence, ‘Furthermore, their grades improve various other classes as a result, brightening their paths to graduation.’