Winning TOEFL Essays The Right Way: Real Essay Examples From Real Full-Scoring TOEFL Students (Winning TOEFL English - The Right Way)
S**Y
This book is awesome for Toefl prep
Edit: ** This book will be out of date soon. Because this book aimed only independent task in Toefl exam, after July 26, 2023 this task will removed from Toefl. So you can take advantages of this book for progress your writing skilss. But unfortunately it will be useless for Toefl exam. I strongly hope the writers publish new book for aimed integrated writing tasks…**This book is very instructive and understandable. If you want to grade full score in the Toefl writing part, this book would be bery helpful. I added some photos so that the consept of book can be understood. I’m plannımg to buy Speaking book too.
K**N
Lots of vocabulary, not much explanation
I ordered this book because I teach a TOEFL preparation class, and I thought it might be useful for my students. I think I will share a few examples with them, but not require them to buy the book (unless they want to).Pros: good vocab and phrase lists nice examples for "independent" essayCons: no exercises or quizzes vocabulary not defined no discussion of the "integrated" essay AT ALL reading the essays will put you to sleep (or maybe this is a "pro"?)This book includes a few pages on how to write a good essay -- pretty similar to what you would get in any decent writing course. Then there are lists of common phrases, sentence starters, and idioms -- about 200 of each. For example, they include expressions like "hone my skills" and "gain an international perspective." As another reviewer pointed out, they make no attempt to define any of the vocabulary, although they do tell you where to find it used in context (i.e., in which essay). Then there are long lists of vocabulary organized by theme (business, education, urban living, etc), again without definitions.The last and longest section is several dozen essays as they were written by (fairly advanced) students, and as rewritten using the expressions, idioms, vocabulary, etc. There are a few teacher's notes, although they basically say things like "we rewrote this paragraph using more advanced vocabulary".There are no exercises or quizzes of any kind. The lists of expressions, idioms, etc could be pretty useful, if you are a person who likes to do a lot of memorization and flashcards. Reading over the essays might give you a chance to see what a high-scoring essay would look like, although they will probably put you to sleep.
T**I
Not that useful
The author listed a bunch of words on the book. But it would be wonderful if he could describe the word and idioms' meaning on the book. Sometimes it is bit confusing as the word and idioms are mixed and listed alphabetically. Maybe it is very easy for native speakers as they know the meaning of them and I don't believe native speakers do take TOEFL exam. Unsatisfied with the book. But maybe I will read the essays on the book just to see how other people write their essays. It will require more time to translate and find the meaning of the words and idioms they used for fixing the essays. I haven't read the book until recently. Unfortunately, the return window is already closed and I cannot return the book now.
L**G
Recommended!
Book was written by the test examiners. The book provides 32 essays from TOEFL takers and the same essays improved by the TOEFL examiners. This book helped me to have an idea of how my essay should be in order to get a high score in the writing section. I highly recommend it!
A**R
Helpful book for TOEFL
Very help full if you want to pass TOEFL EXAM
H**S
Very useful
It is just so good if you really study it. I passed the toefl and it didn’t only help me with writing it helped me with other section too. You should have it.
D**Y
This book is super practical. The essays and TIPS are really useful
This book is super practical. The essays and TIPS are really useful. I got 112 on the exam and it's also helpful for the speaking part.
C**Y
Good to enrich vocabulary
Its good to read analysed written essays and corrected ones. But no learning strategies.
K**I
You must have it
Vous devez l'avoir!
A**S
Una variedad amplia de ejemplos para el writing del TOEFL
Lo recomiendo mucho para repasar a profundidad la sección del writing del TOEFL.
L**A
Not recommended
The book doesn’t deserve the price. The examples illustrated in the book is simple and unattractive. I read other books that is much better than this one.
K**Q
it is a great book to experince proper English writing skills
It is a great valuable bokk in regards English writing skills, grammar, organizations and structures . I love it
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