<p>For a beginner never really written an essay in 25 minutes, what are some suggestions to start?</p>
<p>Don’t take my advice as the golden standard, but here are a few tips that I remember to use when writing essays:</p>
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<li>SAT essays =/= English essay. There’s not so much a focus on quantity over quality.</li>
<li>Keep it simple. Use examples you’re certain of. Don’t throw vocab out just to impress. Only use it where it’s the right choice.</li>
<li>Watch your time. 25min is not a lot of time to write an essay, and the graders know that. I break down my time with 5minutes outlining and coming up with examples, then twenty minutes writing four paragraphs, roughly 5min/paragraph.</li>
<li>Keep it short. Cut out the fluff and grandiose (good vocab word) language used to fill up space that won’t really mean anything. If there’s a simpler way to say something, say it.</li>
<li>Read. Literature, news, anything can be mined for examples. Prompts are vague enough to spin in different directions, so it’s up to you to decide which spin fits the information you have.</li>
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<p>Hope this helped a bit. (:</p>
<p>there’s a thread called how to write a 12 essay in 10 days, search for it, it’s really useful</p>