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Yilin Wang Posted 10 years ago
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Can we call The Art of War literature?

I am preparing for my SAT essay prompt. Can someone please suggest any resource for the examples needed in this essay?

I am thinking about The Art of War. Can I call it a literature?

Thanks in advance.
  

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Yilin **** I am thinking about The Art of War. Can I call it a literature? I assume it's the work by Sun Tzu you're referring to, though you neglected to mention the author.

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  • Yilin **** I am thinking about The Art of War.
  • Can I call it a literature?
  • I assume it's the work by Sun Tzu you're referring to, though you neglected to mention the author.
  • I doubt that it's narrative literature, and it was not originally written in English, so those are two factors to ask about.
  • Are you allowed to use translations?
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Yilin ****I am thinking about The Art of War. Can I call it a literature?
I assume it's the work by Sun Tzu you're referring to, though you neglected to mention the author.

I doubt that it's narrative literature, and it was not originally written in English, so those are two factors to ask about. Are you allowe
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I am thinking about using its English version as my quote in SAT essay.
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Yilin ****I am thinking about using its English version as my quote in SAT essay.
Yes. I understand that. But Sun Tzu did not write it in English, and the SAT people may want only literature that was originally written in English. That was my point.

You say "quote". If you are using only a quotation from The Art of War, that should not be a
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I am preparing for my SAT essay prompt. Can someone please suggest any resource for the examples needed in this essay? Not unless you tell us the prompt.

I am thinking about The Art of War. Can I call it a literature? Why do you have to call it anything? Just quote from it, and say who wrote it and the title.
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Yilin ****I am preparing for my SAT essay prompt.
As I understand it, you won't know the prompt until you take the test, so I imagine you're just practicing with a list of prompts such as those shown in this advertisement. (See http://blog.prepscholar.com/
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It's also pretty impractical to prepare examples if you don't know the prompt.

My advice is that you should practice writing essays for as many prompts as you can. That's the best way to get ready.

If you haven't got time to write dozens of essays, try to prepare written point-form plans for as many as you can.
(You do write a plan before writing an essay, don't you?)
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Yes, indeed. That is what I am doing. I am practising 2 prompts a day and today's prompt is teamwork. Could you please suggest a literature that is suitable for this prompt? Thank you.
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Yilin ****Yes, indeed. That is what I am doing. I am practising 2 prompts a day and today's prompt is teamwork. Could you please suggest a literature that is suitable for this prompt? Thank you.
All you have to do is search Google for a few key words.

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