Journal #34 ACT Writing

So, this blog is about how to write to ACT essay. It is funny because i was informed just recently that there are some essays that do not have a writing portion, and therefore the writing portion of the ACT is actually not required by some colleges. But whatever, anyway, when writing an essay for the ACT, the first thing that you will always want to do is that obviously you will always want to read the prompt very carefully. You need to know what the writer of the prompt is talking about and you will know which side you will want to take. Now, the common mistake that people make when they start to plan out for an essay is that people will only plan out to write about the one side that they support. If you look at the grading scale for the writing portion of the ACT, you will realize that for one to get the highest score possible, the writer of the essay must cover both sides of the topic. When i say cover, i do not mean that the writer of the essay must support both sides of the essay. I mean that you must explain why the side that you are against will not work. Once again, for the writer to get a six, he or she must have this information included in the essay. When writing writing the essay on an Act, one thing that is much different about it from an actual essay is that you can use personal experience when trying to use support for the main argument in an essay. This means that the writer can use words like "I" and "me" that shows that the author had personal experience with these events and can explain what it has to do with the argument and also how it supports the author's argument. Well i guess that those are the main things that one would need to know when writing an ACT essay.