Williamson, a high school English teacher, teaches high school students how to write timed essays with the aim of improving standardized test scores. She shows them how to prepare for the different expectations of varied writing prompts, outline or roadmap essays before the writing begins, organize the allotted time, and collect and use examples to support arguments, with templates for introductions, conclusions, and body paragraphs, and exercises for improving sentence variety and word choice, as well as good and bad examples with commentary. She ends with exercises to improve precision in any kind of writing. There is no index. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)