How to Prepare for the Computer-Based TOEFL Essay: Test of English as a Foreign Language

by Lin Lougheed

Visiting students in the United States and Canada who take the Computer-Based Test of English as a Foreign Language must submit a written essay that counts toward approximately 50% of their structure... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764114794
• ISBN13: 9780764114793
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.9" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

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This book explains how to write the essay on the TOEFL through examples and analyses; the best of its kind.

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This book helped me a lot to prepare the essay.It taught me how to organize it well.And I got 4.5 finally.As a foreigner,I am very satisfied with this score.

A good preparation for TOEFL test

This book can help you write an organized and developed essay. It can also give you many ideas about good writing strategies for the ESSAY test OF TOEFL.

Write an essay within 30 minutes? YES!

Can you imagine an non-English-as-a-first-language person write an English essay within 30 minutes? I'm talking about planning, thinking, and typing, altogether within 30 minutes. Seems like mission impossible. But with the book, it's not that hard. I personally find the explanations of the four types that apear in TOEFL most useful. Now I can decide where to start my essay at first glance because I know what kind of topic it belongs. I also find the check list impressive. It oulines how a good essay should include and exclude. In my opinion, you can write an outstanding essay, too-if you follow the instructions in the book.

Easy to Understand & Excellent Guidance in Writting essay

I liked this book very much because it has guided how to take step by step approach in writting essay.It tells us how to manage time & how to develope topic. Even there are sample essays for all topics of TOEFL.Punctuation rules were usefull for me.Identifying whether topic of essay is of type "agreeing or disagreeing" or "stating a preference" helped me lot. Although this is the only book in market on "Computer based toefl essay",it has everything we need to write in TOEFL.