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Summary: Could be 5 stars: Great for SAT essay preparation
Review: I think this is a great book for SAT essay writing preparation. It is also a great book for general essay writing. The book focuses on getting the meaning down in an organized manner.I highly recommend this book, but only gave it a 4 because it focuses on the narrow, but important, issue of writing a theme under time pressure. It should be in every SAT essay preparers hands. John Dunbar
Sugar Land, TX
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Summary: Could be 5 stars: Great for SAT essay preparation
Review: I think this is a great book for SAT essay writing preparation. It is also a great book for general essay writing. The book focuses on getting the meaning down in an organized manner. I highly recommend this book, but only gave it a 4 because it focuses on the narrow, but important, issue of writing a theme under time pressure. It should be in every SAT essay preparers hands. John Dunbar
Sugar Land, TX
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Summary: A great reference book - you will refer to it many times!!!
Review: I've had this book since the first paperback edition came out in 1990, and have referred to it many times over the years. The material is well layed out, easy to read and more importantly, easy to apply! You definitely won't regret buying this book!
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Summary: If you can read, you can write . . .
Review: This book takes the !!ARRGH!! out of writing. Concentrating on academic assignments, the author, who has been there-done that, lets students in on his secrets of how to relax and make ANY subject interesting to the writer - and, therefore, the reader. Writing Under Pressure is clearly written (the author practices what he preaches), but contains enough lightness and human touches to make you forget you're not reading it for pleasure. I would recommend this book to someone who is learning (or re-learning) how to write assigned term papers or essays.
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Summary: This is the Writing book you want on your shelf
Review: When I first got into college, I had absolutely no idea how to
write. I had written papers in high school, yet it had always been an agonizing process. As a result, I dreaded every paper assignment, and put off writing until the last minute. Then, one day, in the midst of such procrastination, I discovered this book on the library's shelf. Shelved between two books on grammar, this book looked like another long-winded treatise on sentence construction. Yet after opening the book, I was pleasantly surprised. Sanford Kaye's book, Writing Under Pressure, puts forth an interesting, well thought out strategy for writing papers. Through a case study, and then specific applications, he outlines his strategy in a clear, easily understandable way that is immediately applicable. Yet this is not this book's main strength. Kaye clearly loves writing, and he communicates this in a way that makes the reader feel the same way. Now, this is the book I turn to whenever I feel overwhelmed by a writing task. So if you are looking for a book on writing, or even if you are not, you cannot do better than Sanford Kaye's Writing Under Pressure.
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