1. Laudable endeavors & less satisfactory sentences COLLEGE PREP :TOPICS IN LITERATURE

2. LAUDABLE ENDEAVORS “All of my friends judged and criticized me for choosing to attend RHS. Even my parents objected once I have informed them about my decision.”

3. LESS Laudable Endeavors “When you put attention to something, you can always do good and feel good about yourself. ”

4. Laudable Endeavors “Although some of my family members are generally supportive and positive, some of them are unknowingly offensive.”

5. LESS Laudable Endeavors “Im good, man, an’ I’m thinkin’ to myself, well, its like Im a good writter.” “ My writting should get better.”

6. Laudable Endeavors “However, my dream was shattered not too long after revealing my fantasy to my mother about becoming an FBI agent.”

7. LESS Laudable Endeavors “ Once I started that stuff, everybody always thing that the thing I was doing was too hard.” (about taking up AP) “Once I got placed in that class, I thought everything was going to be pretty easy.”

8. Common Spelling Errors writting  WRITING more better  BETTER Thanks God  THANK GOD englis, english, spanish  English, Spanish

9. Common Spelling Errors: “Look-alikes, sound alikes” Then vs than There vs. they’re vs. their Quiet vs. quite It’s vs. its

10. Avoid the following: “In my country, we respect our religion.” What country? Name it? Who is we? Iranians, Iraqi, Mexicans, Ecuadorians… What’s “our religion?” Does it have a name? Islam? (not Moslem/Muslim)Christianity?

11. Stay away from the following words in formal writing: Good, bad, happy, sad,,Stuff, thing, thingy, ok, okay, weirdo (slang, unspecific words) Everything, everyone, everybody, anyone, anything People (unless NATION) You (avoid “I” unless writing a personal narrative) “I think” (we know that you think) Awesome, cool, wonderful, great, amazing, great, nice Basically, actually, really There is/there are A little bit, a bit, get (better, interested, taller),

12. Reporting Verbs When using reported speech, most students learn to use "say" and "tell": Examples: John told me he was going to stay late at work. Peter said he wanted to visit his parents that weekend. These forms are perfectly correct for reporting what others have said. However, there are a number of other reporting verbs which can more accurately describe what someone has said.

13. Reporting Verbs advise encourage invite remind warn agree decide offer promise refuse threaten admit agree decide deny explain insist promise recommend suggest reprimand deny recommend suggest accuse blame congratulate apologize insist inform express