How to Write an ACT Writing Prompt on ANYTHING



How to Write an ACT Writing Prompt on ANYTHING

Sample ACT Prompt:

Educators debate extending high school to five years because of increasing demands on students from employers and colleges to participate in extracurricular activities and community service in addition to having high grades. Some educators support extending high school to five years because they think students need more time to achieve all that is expected of them. Other educators do not support extending high school to five years because they think students would lose interest in school and attendance would drop in the fifth year. In your opinion, should high school be extended to five years?

In your essay, take a position on this question. You may write about either one of the two points of view given, or you may present a different point of view on this question. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.

Create your own, using the following formula:

PARAGRAPH 1:

SENTENCE 1: (Group of people) + DEBATE + (controversial issue) + BECAUSE + (of reason 1 and 2).

SENTENCE 2: SOME + (group of people) + SUPPORT + (affirmative side of issue) + BECAUSE THEY THINK + (reasons 1 and 2).

SENTENCE 3: OTHER (group of people) + DO NOT SUPPORT + (affirmative side of issue) BECAUSE + (reasons 3 and 4)

SENTENCE 4: IN YOUR OPINION, SHOULD + (affirmative side of issue be enacted)?

PARAGRAPH 2:

In your essay, take a position on this question. You may write about either one of the two points of view given, or you may present a different point of view on this question. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.

Tips:

+Make it provocative (for their sake and ours)

+Require little prior knowledge (ACT wants it to be equitable)

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