Speaking and Writing Strategies for the TOEFL iBT by Bruce Stirling

Speaking and Writing Strategies for the TOEFL iBT by Bruce Stirling

Increase your TOEFL iBT score by increasing your speaking and writing scores. How? By using the strategy called argument mapping. Why argument mapping? Because the TOEFL iBT speaking and writing sections are all argument-based tasks. That means if you want high speaking and writing scores, you must know how to map out (develop and deliver) spoken and written arguments, quickly and proficiently. With argument mapping, you will be able to do just that. Best of all, you can apply argument mapping to all six speaking tasks and both writing tasks. ARGUMENT DEVELOPMENT Learn basic and advanced argument development strategies to maximize your speaking and writing scores. By doing so, you can increase your TOEFL score. ARGUMENT MAPPING Learn test-proven speaking and writing strategies quickly and proficiently using the graphics-based strategy called argument mapping. SCORING STRATEGIES Learn how to think like a TOEFL rater so you know exactly what to say and write to maximize scoring.

Vincent O'Malley has worked as a professional historian for 17 years. He is the author of Agents of Autonomy: Maori Committees in the Nineteenth Century and the coauthor of The Beating Heart: A Political and Socio-Economic History of Te Arawa. He is a founding partner of HistoryWorks, Inc. and a contributor to various scholarly journals, including Ethnohistory, Journal of the Polynesian Society, Labour History Review, and New Zealand Journal of History. Bruce Stirling has been involved in researching, writing, and presenting reports for the Treaty of Waitangi claims process for more than 15 years. Wally Penetito is a professor of Maori education and a codirector of He Parekereke, The Institute for Research and Development in Maori and Pacific Education at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of What's Maori About Maori Education?