SAT Reading & Writing
Expression of Ideas — SAT Practice Questions
Expression of Ideas focuses on revising and improving writing: organizing ideas effectively, choosing precise transitions, and synthesizing information to meet a specific rhetorical goal.
Skills covered in Expression of Ideas
- Boundaries
- Form, Structure, and Sense
- Transitions
- Rhetorical Synthesis
Practice Expression of Ideas questions
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: On January 3, 1959, Alaska
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Platinum is a rare and
- In 1929, Edwin Herbert Land invented a polarizing filter that was featured in a number of
- Award-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe was known for his innovative filming techniques.
- The Globe Theatre in London is a reconstruction of the famed venue where many of Shakespeare’s
- Dr. Rocío Paola Caballero-Gill is a paleoceanographer. This means that Dr. Caballero-Gill
- The radiation that ______ blank during the decay of radioactive atomic nuclei is known as gamma
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: In 1851, German American artist
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: In 2020, theater students at
- Earth is not a perfect sphere. Due to the ______ blank gravitational pull, Earth bulges out
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Chinese Tibetan mastiffs are
- With his room-sized installation Unicorn/My Private Sky , Norwegian artist Børre
- Slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo’s debut novel The Poet X , winner of the 2018 National Book
- Increased gender diversity is revitalizing the field of economics, according to Harvard’s
- Ugandan American professor Peter Nazareth believed that Elvis Presley’s music is best
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: In the 1930s, the Imperial
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: In 1897, African American
- When, in the 1800s, geologists first realized that much of Earth had once been covered by
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Astronomers estimate that the
- Historians agree that the jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton was exaggerating when he claimed to have
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: The calendar used by most
- Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873-1908) varied his focus and tone depending on the genre in which he
- Nigerian American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola uses black-ink pens to create highly detailed drawings
- The city of Pompeii, which was buried in ash following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in
- In 1903, environmentalist John Muir guided President Theodore Roosevelt on a scenic, sprawling trip
- Eli Eisenberg, a genetics expert at Tel Aviv University in Israel, recently discovered that ______
- Paleontologists once thought that early apes lived in tropical forests, but recent research
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: NASA uses rovers, large remote
- Before California’s 1911 election to approve a proposition granting women the right to vote,
- Woven from recycled yarn and hand tufted using a carpet weaving technique passed down by the
- By the time Hawaiian king Kamehameha IIwe ______ blank the throne, the number of longhorn tle,
- Why are Rome’s famous concrete structures, such as the Colosseum, still standing after
- In 1637, the price of tulips skyrocketed in Amsterdam, with single bulbs of rare varieties selling
- The Limón technique, developed by Mexican-born dancer and choreographer Jose Limón,
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: In 2022, University of Miami
- From 1912 to 1951, Charlotta Bass owned and operated the newspaper The California Eagle . While
- In the 1880s, inventor Lewis Latimer improved upon Thomas Edison’s design for the electric
- A 2017 study of sign language learners tested the role of iconicity-the similarity of a sign
- In the late 1960s, inspired in part by the sight of laundry hanging on a clothesline,
- Plato believed material objects to be crude representations of unseen ideal forms. In his view, such
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Maika’i Tubbs is a Native
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Las sergas de Esplandián
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Jordan Bennett is a
- To explore how blinking affects social interactions, Dutch researchers observed interactions
- The intense pressure found in the deep ocean can affect the structure of proteins in fish’s
- In 1930, Japanese American artist Chiura Obata depicted the natural beauty of Yosemite National
- Generations of mystery and horror ______ blank have been influenced by the dark, gothic stories of
- With darkness falling, a mother elephant loses sight of her calf and wants to make sure
- African American Percy Julian was a scientist and entrepreneur whose work helped people around the
- A government body officially known as the Althing, ______ blank Which choice completes the text so
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Marcela Guerrero is a curator
- Consider the mechanics of the pinhole camera: light passes through a small hole, resulting in a
- In 2021, a model developed by astrophysicist Catherine Zucker and her research team revealed that
- Roughly once an hour, a torrent of boiling water shoots up 100 feet or more from
- The Sun and other stars are powered by nuclear fusion reactions, in which two atoms collide
- In the canon of North African literature, Moroccan author Driss Chraïbi’s 1954 novel The
- As British scientist Peter Whibberley has observed, “the Earth is not a very good
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Samuel Selvon was a Trinidadian
- While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: In 1965, Yale University
- A pioneer in the field of taphonomy (the study of how organic remains become fossils), ______
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