Hi! I'm here today with my friend Victoria to go over step by step with
you just how to write that SAT essay if you haven't already watched my video
lesson on SAT essay structure I suggest you do that first and you can do that by
clicking a little link that should appear right about here in the screen
and then come back to this video because you're gonna need that background
information to really understand what she's doing here today Victoria is going
to take us step by step through the same process that you're going to want to use
if you want to write a proficient as they on the SAT
that's with any other part of the SAT you're going to want to go into the test
already familiar with the directions the directions don't change
you'll save precious time if you know upfront what's being expected of you the
SAT essay directions are always the same as you read the passage below consider
how the author uses evidence such as facts or examples to support his claims
reasoning to develop ideas and connect claims and evidence stylistic or
persuasive elements such as word choice or appeals to emotion to add power to
the ideas expressed mainly the thing is with the essay you want to know what the
directions are before you go in all the directions on all of the essays are this
down here as you read the passage below consider how the author uses evidence
facts and examples to support claims reasoning to develop ideas and connect
claims and evidence and stylistic or persuasive elements such as word choice
or appeals to emotion to add power to the ideas express that's the same
directions on every single prompt and
this is what the essay is going to look lit look like the one that you actually
have to write about it's always going to be two pages it's going to only have
just the author's name the name of the article maybe where it was published and
then at the end it's going to remind you to write an essay in which you explain
how whatever this author builds an argument for whatever you argued in the
paper be sure your analysis focuses on the
most relevant features of the passage your essay should not explain whether or
not you agree with whatever the article is about but rather explain how they
build an audience so knowing this going into it you know it's always going to
tell you to do the same so when you go you want to be able to be
ready with whatever techniques you're gonna write about so I created this
handout for my students and we just kind of thought about all these different
these are all different ways that the author can persuade you but a lot of
times specific ones of these like especially appealing to logic you can
always find that you can always find that so if you narrow narrow it down to
like four or five appeals that you're gonna just actively look for when you
read it rather than leaving it open to all these different appeals then it's
gonna make it much easier for you you're not gonna be nervous when you go in to
do it oh can you think of why an author liked talking about in this particular
article which is the one I'm gonna have you read if in here if he appealed to
ethics or credibility that you're familiar with ethos and pathos and logos
right okay so why would somebody want to use an appeal that talked about someone
else's credibility why would somebody want to do that well if the people think
they're credible then they'll be more likely to trust what they have to say
and believe their argument a lot of times they appeal you know different
ways but they appeal to emotion want to appeal to the emotions of the reader in
developing his thesis not your thesis but his thesis well if he appeals to
their emotions then he can like get them to feel certain ways to feel a certain
way about his thesis and try to make them convinced of it as well also maybe
an emotional connection wants to build an emotional connection okay so an
appeal to logic well you can connect different ideas to make them all flow
together and end up at his thesis so like if this happens and this happens
which leads to thesis okay so that's how he builds an argument is that what
you're saying yes now why would someone use an anecdote to try to persuade well
if he's already used ethos then they already trust him so by giving them a
short story from his life from a trustworthy person then they're more
likely to agree with what he has to say okay okay and then use of testimony and
in this case he does have a couple different experts it kind of falls under
the ethos thing too but more specifically rather than just saying you
know these people are credible he he gives them a chance to speak for
themselves so why would he want to do that why would he want to use actual
testimonials or quotes from people who have something to say about this a lot
of times the quotes are used from like people that he knows his audience
already trusts so he can help build his argument through what other people
already say and those statistics and data are logos why would he choose to
include facts and figures in his article because I need doesn't have to worry if
like they're he's going to use someone the audience won't accept but like the
audience is always going to accept raw data it's like proving now use of
imagery as a persuasive technique well it kind of helps overlaps with the
pathos and making them feel what he has to say and he gets to kind of manipulate
what they're thinking almost by like showing them different pieces okay so
instead of manipulate let's say he guides okay yeah okay um thinking
through emotion and you know imagery doesn't just have to be visual it can be
auditory it can be a lot of different things um use of figurative language why
would someone want to use and these are the three most common ones you would see
of course there's you know several other ones but why would an author use
figurative language as a persuasive technique well it's kind of another way
of just comparing two things so he can like comparing
contrast different things using the metaphors and similes and making it more
persuasive okay and it also it also kind of appeals to people on an emotional
level right intentional word choice is diction and the diction influences tone
so and there's another one well this one is gonna be very similar use of jargon
so why is it important for James Hamblin to choose his words carefully when he
writes this piece because if he doesn't use his words right he won't be able to
relate to his audience as well so he has to speak like his audience so they can
like hear and accept and understand what did he say the other thing is he wants
to establish an authoritative tone and there are certain word choices you can
use to do that so with that idea of an authoritative tone jargon this is
something that I think works for every everyone that I've ever seen this is
gonna work so specialized vocabulary so well if he's using words like that he
knows that the reader is going to be able to understand and the readers then
going to know that he knows what he's talking about yeah he knows what he's
talking about that's the thing that you want to really focus on a use of humor
quite often you'll find use of humor it's not huge and it's not probably the
best appeal but if somebody was going to use a humorous appeal how would that
affect the reader well he can make the reader know that he's not all like
completely serious but can keep the mood light hearted and okay okay don't you're
gonna need to have three of these ready to go when you go in to do the SAT essay
they give you it for 40 minutes or 45 minutes 50 minutes 50 minutes so in
there 50 minutes what you have to do is check over the prompt remember the
directions are always the same the directions are always the same the
prompt is specific to this but it's always going to be basically the same
prompt you're gonna want to understand who wrote it what it is and where it was
published and the dates important to so and then you have to read and analyze
the text organize your essay and write it in 50 minutes no problem right I want
to just show you this little checklist and I developed for kids the checklist
that we are looking at as we discuss planning the essay in the next few
minutes I am going to copy this and put this in the description below as well
that kind of walks you through how to write the essay and if you kind of
understand this before you before you take the essay but basically you're
looking for five paragraphs in your introductory paragraph you're gonna give
two or three sentences background about whatever this guy is writing about it
has nothing to do with your thesis yet just what's the information and then you
do want to make your claim and give the title of the text the author of the text
your claim and then mention what your support is going to be for your thesis
and this is your thesis your claim and the support and then you're just gonna
have three paragraphs that are pretty much the same you'll have some sort of
transition you're going to explain whatever this was here this is number
one so that goes right here number one you're gonna give the examples from the
text three little supports and then you are going to explain just what we went
through here why did that author use that support so sounds pretty easy right
so you do that for three paragraphs and then your conclusion paragraph you never
transition restate your thesis somehow and then there's some choices for what
to do you can either give some information that shows how this
information can be applied or question and are given
counterargument suggestions for ideas and so on and then leave a final
expression and we'll get into this more when we talk about how to write the
essay after you read it but I just want you to know going in that you always
want to be thinking about what are you what's gonna be your claim and then what
are the are the persuasive techniques that the person uses if you know that
going into it then the even the first time you read through it you're going to
be able to look for that information so there's a couple of things I want you to
do is you read through this but there's specific there's specific key words that
this author uses throughout this whole thing like we not just the jargon but
jargon whatever you call it jargon but it's it's words specific to this topic
that you're gonna want to use in your essay as well I'm gonna zoom in on you
but okay okay so this is the art of article that you're going to read to
prepare to write the essay so just remember that you're gonna circle the
the key words and then try to just make notes either within the text or on the
small column side man you might want to do it within the text there's not much
room there of the persuasive techniques that he's using you might also I'll just
throw this that because I forgot to tell you this you might also want to
underline his thesis when you come to it and his introduction has really broken
up into like two or three paragraphs so when you come to his thesis just
underline that but you're really focusing on the evidence he uses to
prove his thesis okay
can you find the the actual prompt that that you're going to turn into a
question here to help you develop your underlying it if you find it there so
what you're going to do is go to the directions for this particular prompt at
the end of the essay you just read and it'll say something like write an essay
in which you explain how the author builds an argument to inform and
persuade his audience of the health benefits or whatever his thesis is
you're going to turn that into a question how does the author build an
argument to inform and persuade his audience of whatever his thesis is and
that question is what you will then answer in your claim as you build your
own thesis
there it is so all you have to do is just yeah that and you've got your
question to help you with your thesis of course you remember from the checklist
you are gonna when you write your essay you're gonna give some background
knowledge first but how about right here in this blank space working on
developing your thesis ok so you so you're going to answer this question
that's your claim and then give your evidence
if you have any further questions on how to write the SAT essay please put them
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