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Leaf, Brian. Top 50 ACT English, Reading, and Science Skills, Third Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2021.

Top 50 ACT English, Reading, and Science Skills, Third Edition

Authors: Brian Leaf

Published:  December 2021

eISBN: 9781264274833 | ISBN: 9781264274826
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • How to Use This Book
  • Guessing
  • About Brian Leaf
  • Acknowledgments
  • Pretest
  • Answer Key
  • Top 50 Skills
  • English
  • SKILL 1 Subject/Verb Agreement
  • SKILL 2 The One Subject/Verb Agreement Trick
  • SKILL 3 Pronoun Clarity and Agreement
  • SKILL 4 Correct Transition Word
  • SKILL 5 Relaxing Commas
  • SKILL 6 Are You Independent?
  • SKILL 7 Correct Preposition
  • SKILL 8 It’s Me
  • SKILL 9 A Few More Rules
  • SKILL 10 Direct, to the Point, Not Redundant
  • SKILL 11 Misplaced Phrases
  • SKILL 12 Word Choice
  • SKILL 13 Flow
  • SKILL 14 Goal Questions
  • SKILL 15 Yes or No?
  • SKILL 16 How to Think Like a Grammar Genius
  • Reading
  • SKILL 17 Bold Introductions
  • SKILL 18 The ACT Reading Meditation
  • SKILL 19 “Facetious” Most Nearly Means
  • SKILL 20 Direct Info
  • SKILL 21 What Are You Trying to “Suggest”?
  • SKILL 22 Some Attitude
  • SKILL 23 Main Idea
  • SKILL 24 Gretchen Is “Such” a Good Friend
  • SKILL 25 Superbad Vocab I
  • SKILL 26 Superbad Vocab II
  • SKILL 27 Say What?
  • SKILL 28 How to Read
  • SKILL 29 How to Be a Reading Ninja
  • Clear the Mechanism: Meditation, Baseball, and the ACT
  • Five Tips for a Great College Application
  • Science
  • SKILL 30 How to Read Science
  • SKILL 31 How to Read Tables and Graphs
  • SKILL 32 Up and Down
  • SKILL 33 Between the Lines
  • SKILL 34 The Paragraphs
  • SKILL 35 Don’t Be Controlled
  • SKILL 36 Fight!
  • SKILL 37 How to Be a Science Genius
  • The Optional Essay
  • SKILL 38 Brainstorm
  • SKILL 39 Brain Freeze Help
  • SKILL 40 Outline
  • SKILL 41 Write Your Intro
  • SKILL 42 Transition Sentences
  • SKILL 43 A Strong Body
  • SKILL 44 More Body
  • SKILL 45 Body III
  • SKILL 46 Conclusion
  • SKILL 47 Other Stuff That Matters
  • SKILL 48 Proofread
  • SKILL 49 How to Be a Writing Monster
  • SKILL 50 Brian’s Friday Night Spiel: Recommendations for the Days Preceding the Test
  • Bonus Skill: Writing the Perfect Essay
  • Guessing Revisited
  • Now What?
  • Posttest
  • Solutions