EXPLORE/PLAN/ACT English
Score Range 28–32 applies to PLAN and the ACT only.
To enhance their skills in each English-related strand, students who score in the 28–32 score range may benefit from activities that encourage them to do the following:
| Score Range 28–32 |
| Topic Development in Terms of Purpose and Focus |
- write essays that indicate a heightened awareness of the audience for those essays
- recognize the role that specific sentences play in terms of the essay as a whole
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| Organization, Unity, and Coherence |
- revise or add introductory sentences or transitions based on an understanding of the logic and rhetorical purpose of the paragraph and the essay as a whole
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| Word Choice in Terms of Style, Tone, Clarity, and Economy |
- revise writing to delete redundancies in terms of the paragraph as a whole
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| Sentence Structure and Formation |
- maintain parallel structure between phrases and clauses in a complex sentence
- employ a variety of sentence structures in their writing
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| Conventions of Usage |
- revise sentences to ensure agreement between verb and subject when a phrase between the two suggests a different number for the verb
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| Conventions of Punctuation |
- use the colon to introduce an example or an elaboration
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