Former college English professor adds three new tools, including free YouTube workshop series, to SAT prep offerings
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — When it comes to a premier educational experience, students across the country have three new SAT options. Tom Clements Tutoring (http://www.tctutoring.net), author of the top-selling "How to Write a Killer SAT Essay" and the "Killer SAT Grammar Game" app for iPhones, has just released a FREE series on YouTube of his nationally-recognized SAT Essay Workshop.
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Free YouTube Series
Clements, a former college English teacher and experienced educator who's helped thousands of students ace their SATs, covers the fundamentals of two-page essay writing using real students in an interactive classroom setting. Students can now see firsthand — and at no cost — the strategies and techniques that make for a top-scoring essay.
Basing the workshop on his award-winning book "How to Write a Killer SAT Essay", Tom Clements breaks the SAT essay down into a series of eleven short (5 to 10 minute) YouTube lessons, each lesson pinpointing essential components of high-quality composition. High school students can now "sit in" on these lessons, viewing them one at a time or watching them consecutively.
Not just a talking head, Clements conducts a dynamic session involving give-and-take with his students as they discuss and analyze the seven Rules of Engagement required for a top-scoring SAT essay. A complete sample essay is discussed and analyzed. In a little over an hour total, students can be up and running with a full complement of pragmatic writing techniques applicable to any prompt the College Board throws at them.
"The SAT essay is a game and I teach students how to win — big time," says Tom Clements. "Emphasizing basic rules of composition — structure, narrative flow, transitions, subordination, and details, details, details — I teach students to compose high-scoring essays quickly and easily. In fact, I take the fear out of essay writing, turning composition into an accomplishment rather than a chore."
To view Tom Clements' Killer SAT Essay Workshop, enter "Killer SAT" into any YouTube search window. Or visit his channel at: www.youtube.com/tctutoring
Killer SAT Grammar Game
As a companion piece to both this workshop and his book, Tom Clements also announces an interactive grammar app for iPhones. This "Killer SAT Grammar" app distills SAT grammar down to 9 user-friendly grammar rules — that's it, just 9 — which, along with his book and YouTube workshops, provide students a surefire way to ace the SAT Writing section.
Graphics enhance the 9 "Killer SAT Grammar" rules and embedded slideshow movies make each rule easy to learn and fun to understand. Interactive practice questions reinforce grammar concepts and a complete Writing test is included to provide real-world SAT context.
Bio
As a professional writer, former college English teacher and long-time SAT tutor, Tom has helped hundreds of students ace the SAT essay. Now, with the announcement of his FREE eleven-part YouTube series, the continued success of his award-winning book "How to Write a Killer SAT" and his digital "Killer SAT Grammar" app, students everywhere can master the fundamentals of composition and dominate the SAT Writing section. For more information, visit: http://www.tctutoring.net
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