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CBEST Writing Guide: with Sample CBEST Essays and CBEST English Grammar Review Workbook by Exam SAM
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- The download guides you through the essay writing process step by step.
- It explains how to write both the expository essay and the personal experience essay.
- There are five CBEST essay topics and 5 CBEST writing samples.
- 5 CBEST writing samples (i.e. model essays) are included with examiner’s comments and tips for improvement.
- There is a grammar review guide that covers the mistakes students usually make in their essay writing.
- In the last section of the download, you will find a sentence building guide.
- The sentence building guide shows you how to write richly developed sentences in your essays.
The table of contents for the download is given below.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
About the CBEST Essays
- CBEST Essay Format & Question Types
- Expository Essay Tasks on the CBEST
- Personal Experience Essay Tasks on the CBEST
- Essay Scoring – How Your CBEST Essays Are Marked
- How to Avoid Common Essay Errors and Raise Your Score
Expository Essays
- Expository Essay Structure for the CBEST
- Creating Effective Thesis Statements with Exercises and Answers
- Writing the Introduction with Exercises and Answers
- Organizing the Main Body
- Elaboration in the Body Paragraphs
- Exercises with Answers for Writing the Main Body with Supporting Points
- Clear and Concise Topic Sentences with Exercises and Answers
- Making Conclusions Effective with Exercises and Answers
- Sample Expository Essays – Model Essays 1, 2, and 3
- Analysis of Model Essay Samples with Comments and Exam Tips
Personal Experience Essays
- Personal Experience Essay Structure for the CBEST
- Personal Experience Essay Tips
- Useful Phrases for the Personal Experience Essay
- Sample Personal Experience Essays – Model Essays 4 and 5 with Analysis and Comments
English Grammar Review
- Avoiding Misplaced Modifiers
- Negative Inversion
- Past Participle Phrases and Past Perfect Tense
- Agreement of Pronouns and Antecedents
- Pronoun Usage
- Its and It’s
- Their, There and They’re
- When to avoid “You” and “Your”
- Demonstrative Pronouns
- Relative Pronouns
- Punctuation Rules
- Rules for the Parenthetical
- Apostrophe for Possessive Forms
- Colons and Semicolons
- Commas with Dates, Locations, and Items in a Series
- Independent Clauses and Punctuation
- Quotations Marks
- Restrictive and Non-restrictive Modifiers
- Sentence Structure
- Preventing Sentence Fragments
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Grammar and Punctuation Exercises with Answers
Developing Your Sentences
- Phrases, Clauses and Cohesive Devices
- Phrase and Sentence Linkers
- Subordinators
- Cohesive Devices by Category
- Sentence Development Exercises with Answers & Explanations
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