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Below are practice SAT essay prompts from various sources. (Check out the question highlighted in pink if you want to do one related to Oscar Wilde.) ;) From the most recent SAT administration in December 2012 : Prompt 1 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. Many people admire leaders who have effectively achieved their goals. But too many leaders are dedicated to achieving their goals at the expense of caring for the people who follow and support them. Leaders should be judged on how well they treat people, not on the achievement of their goals. Assignment: Should leaders be judged according to how well they treat people? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. Prompt 2 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment be...

When I was online a few weeks ago, I checked out the TurnItIn website, and found this interesting whitepaper on plagiarism (which I hope I have now finally learned to spell properly!). Here's a list of types of plagiarism , from another whitepaper (sorry, this link wants you to sign up to see it...). By the time I got to number 10, I was starting to wonder how anyone can write research papers at all?? ;)  (Some of my students had the same question!) The Plagiarism Spectrum is a guide to help educators, students, academics, and writers recognize the various forms of plagiarism. This spectrum moves plagiarism beyond the black-and-white definition of “literary theft” to one that captures the nuances of how plagiarism can take form.   As part of this study, Turnitin surveyed both higher and secondary education instructors to take a measure of how prevalent and problematic these instances of plagiarism are among their students. The Plagiarism Spectrum ranks the types of plag...