My latest TOEFL text - Scoring Strategies for the TOEFL iBT A Complete Guide - is finished and now with the publisher.
How is Scoring Strategies different from the competition? In myriad ways. For starters, Scoring Strategies is learner-center. That means I focus on you, the test-taker, and give you what you need for TOEFL success. What do you need for TOEFL success? A foundation in basic argument development, the kind of rhetoric you can expect at English-speaking colleges and universities. Why arguments? Because that is how the TOEFL iBT tests you. All other TOEFL texts do not talk about argument development; they barely even mention rhetorical strategies. Their approach is holistic, a big-picture survey of the TOEFL iBT with little or no in-depth analysis of individual tasks or questions. Scoring Strategies, in contrast, is analytical from start to finish. Each test section begins with an in-depth, rhetorical analysis of those arguments and question-types used for testing. That means no surprises on test day. Best of all, you will become a pro at playing the TOEFL iBT game. Those are just a few ways Scoring Strategies represents a new way to prepare for the TOEFL iBT.
Remember: I am a real ESL professor teaching real ESL students at a big American university. All the strategies in Scoring Strategies have been tested and developed over five years in my TOEFL classrooms.
Scoring Strategies for the TOEFL iBT. The revolution is coming.
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