Victory fot the ACT Exam 16e ST Sample

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E. Dashes (Items #29–30) ......................................................................................................... 32 F. Quotation Marks (Item #31) ................................................................................................... 33 G. Apostrophes (Items #32–34) ................................................................................................ 33 H. Punctuating for Clarity Exercise (Item #35) ....................................................................... 34 VI. UNIT 4 | PRODUCTION OF WRITING AND KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE........................................................................................................ 35 A. Production of Writing (Items #1–12) ..................................................................................... 35 1. Strategy ......................................................................................................... 36 a) Appropriate Supporting Material (Item #1, #10) .................................................................................36, 38 b) E ective Opening, Transitional, and Concluding Sentences (Item #2, #7, #11) ......................................................36, 38 c) Main Idea (Item #3, #12) .............................................................36, 38 d) Audience (Item #4) ............................................................................. 36 2. Organization................................................................................................. 36 a) Sentence-Level Structure (Item #9) ............................................... 38 b) Paragraph-Level Structure (Item #5) ............................................. 36 c) Passage-Level Structure (Item #6, #8) ...................................37–38 B. Knowledge of Language ...................................................................................................... 39 1. Conciseness (Items #13–18) ...................................................................... 39 2. Clarity of Meaning (Item #19) .................................................................... 39 3. Idiomatic Expression (Item #20) .............................................................. 39 VII. UNIT 5 | GENERAL STRATEGIES.......................................................................... 40 VIII. QUIZZES ................................................................................................................... 43 A. Directed Study Quiz (Items #1–32) ............................................................................... 44–55 B. Timed Quiz (Items #1–29) ..............................................................................................56–62 X. STRATEGY SUMMARY....................................................................................63–66