In the article, “We Are Teaching High School Students to Write Terribly The many problems of the SAT’s essay section” by Matthew J.X. Malady, argues that the SAT’s writing assessment is having a detrimental effect on students’ writing performance. Malady introduces the writing assessment of the SAT in his introductory. Malady provides the reader with the issues students are experiencing when they are writing their essay. In addition, he provides arguments to why the writing assessment is “unnecessary”.
The author presents significant information to support his claim. Malady explains that while taking the SAT, students come across a writing section that asks them to write about a personal experience. Pupils find it difficult to rehash the events that …show more content…
However, Malady explains that making things up is more convenient and will guarantee and higher score on the essay section. “Graders don’t have time to look up facts, or check if an especially uncommon word actually exists.” The graders of the writing assessment for the SAT has only three minutes to grade each essays. They have to grade at least twenty essays in one hour. The author contradicts the idea of an personal narrative. “What are they actually testing?” He asks. The author informs the reader that the graders examine one’s ability to write as many words as possible in the in the time provided. Malady also incorporates helpful tips for writing a beneficial essay during the SAT. The author states Perelman (who helped create MIT’s writing placement test). “I tell students to always use quotations, because the exam readers love quotations.” The author is advocating that when the graders are skimming the essays, they will try and find quotations. Furthermore, the author quotes Kaplan
The author presents significant information to support his claim. Malady explains that while taking the SAT, students come across a writing section that asks them to write about a personal experience. Pupils find it difficult to rehash the events that …show more content…
However, Malady explains that making things up is more convenient and will guarantee and higher score on the essay section. “Graders don’t have time to look up facts, or check if an especially uncommon word actually exists.” The graders of the writing assessment for the SAT has only three minutes to grade each essays. They have to grade at least twenty essays in one hour. The author contradicts the idea of an personal narrative. “What are they actually testing?” He asks. The author informs the reader that the graders examine one’s ability to write as many words as possible in the in the time provided. Malady also incorporates helpful tips for writing a beneficial essay during the SAT. The author states Perelman (who helped create MIT’s writing placement test). “I tell students to always use quotations, because the exam readers love quotations.” The author is advocating that when the graders are skimming the essays, they will try and find quotations. Furthermore, the author quotes Kaplan