<p>I have a lot of trouble coming up with examples quickly and I often get stuck on putting my thoughts to paper, probably because I'm nitpicking too much but nonetheless I wish I could write it faster. Any ideas?</p>
<p>I'm thinking practice writing from prompts would be a useful way to improve. Does anyone have a nice list of prompts similar to those one would find on the SAT? Thanks! </p>
<p>PS. Feel free to make up your own prompts as long as you feel they are simimlar to what you might find on the SAT - something incredibly broad and utterly useless.</p>
<p>Again, any tips on speeding up the writing process would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>it's often called the writer's block. the best way? write SOMETHING. this will help you get your smart brainwaves going (i'm not talking scientific, :S). think of experiences, books you've read, history classes, your mother's face when you get a 2 on this essay...jk.. write random words, anything, everything that comes into your mind. this will only take about a minute. then, judging your careful mess of words and scatters around the paper, plan out your essay. id say planning it out is THE MOST IMPORTANT part, since writing it when you have an idea going is really a matter of time. and easy too, since you already know where you're going with your essay. :] good luck</p>
<p>MAKE UP STUFF...LIE!...make up some character who is supposed to be prominent in Ghanaian literature. Or fabricate a quote by a nonexistent person who is supposed to be very famous in Liberia. Luckily noone in this country(U.S.A) this country knows sh.it about Africa.
And use 'axiomatically' at the beginning of all your essays. It means 'unquestionable' and it can be used in almost ANY sentence. These scorers are idiots. Learn and use like 10 big arcane words.</p>
<p>Read 1 news article a day. or even week. This year my english teacher bombarded us with wonderful classics (huck finn, mockingbird, catcher in the rye... and much much more) and we took extensive notes on all the books. so after school ended I still have the notes and often brush up on them so I constantly have a stock full of anecdotes and examples from the books to draw from. </p>
<p>But reading news and magazines is great as well. I found that by reading TIME magazine I have a plethora of examples to use... and it really helps improve your vocab.</p>
<p>Having a good knowledge of Us history and knowing the basic events of WWI and WWII and the rise of communism really helps also. Those are great generic ex's that can apply to almost any essay.</p>