How to Approach Improving Sentence Questions

Good writing is short and to the point. A succinct sentence is preferable to a wordy or run on sentence. When approaching the Improving Sentence Questions on the Writing multiple choice section of the SAT try and correct the sentence by inserting the shortest choice possible. If this does not work, then try the next shortest choice and so on. After doing many practice questions in this area the student will begin to discover that the shortest answer choice is usually correct unless such correction makes the sentence a fragment or does not correct the original problem.