Kaplan Writing Power, Second Edition: Empower Yourself! Writing Power for the Real World

I recommend this for any writers who want to improve their skills. It helped me with using the active voice, and avoiding vague words and cliches. I liked the section with different essay forms (personal, persuasive, how-to, compare/contrast, cause/effect, and problem/solution). It shows an example of each and then a revision so you can see how the rewriting improved it. This would be a good review for anyone starting a blog or writing for a website like eHow.

If you have not enough time to study for the GRE writing test but want to get high scores, then this is the right book for you!! I'm from a non english country but I still manage to get high scores for my GRE test after I study this book. Excellent book!!!

I was lucky to find this book to improve upon my skills for GRE's analytical writing section (introduced as of october 2002). The author describes effective writing techniques by recommending a set of rules & showing instances of each of them in action. The examples provided would be most useful to a reader because it shows what to avoid & how to rewrite sentences more effectively.

This book has been a tremendous help studying for my SATs and ACTs. Pre-College students will love it as a study guide; adults can enjoy it as a review.