Ch 17: NES Essential Academic Skills Writing: Organizing Writing

NES Essential Academic Skills Writing: Organizing Writing - Chapter Summary

In this chapter, you'll review strategies for organizing your writing in preparation for the NES Writing test. These lessons will help you out with questions on writing development, and they'll give you an opportunity to improve your skills in time for the written-response portion of the exam. Lesson topics include the following:

• Writing for a specific task, audience and purpose
• Brainstorming techniques
• Writing outlines
• Types of organizational patterns
• Strategies for organizing an essay

Improve your writing skills quickly and easily with these short video lessons. They can be accessed on any device, so you can watch them anywhere or anytime you'd like. Use the short quizzes to measure how well you've grasped the lesson material and see what areas you still need to review.

NES Essential Academic Skills Writing: Organizing Writing Chapter Objectives

This chapter prepares you for NES Writing questions about purpose, audience, organization and writing development. You'll need to be able to recognize whether a sample passage effectively addresses a specified purpose, know different ways of organizing writing and be able to identify strategic revisions to improve writing clarity and focus. In addition, these chapter resources will help you to construct a better-organized written response for the second section of the exam.

The test lasts an hour and 15 minutes and is composed of two parts: 36 multiple-choice questions worth 75% of the score and a written-response item that's worth 25%. The exam is a requirement for teacher licensure in some states.