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Article Excerpt
The first time I took the SAT was to get into college. The second time was to show off. [paragraph] That was the idea, anyway. I wanted to establish some street cred with my son, Teen Boy, who doesn't believe that publishing six novels qualifies me to offer the slightest bit of editorial assistance. When, for example, I suggested to him in the middle of third grade that sometimes some, writers of English occasionally like to begin sentences with, oh, say, a capital letter, he nodded politely, dismissed me with "We don't do it that way anymore, Mom," and continued on his merry, lowercased way. Since his math teacher that same year had presented the class with five "options" for subtracting. I could almost believe that capitalization had become a nostalgic whim as well.
So when the people who bring you a certain SAT prep course announced that they were field-testing their new writing section, I thought that would be the perfect...
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