Pact Essential Academic Skills (Tests 701, 702, 703) 20252026 St

PACT ESSENTIAL ACADEMIC SKILLS (TESTS 701, 702, 703) 2025-2026 STUDY GUIDE: COMPLETE CONTENT REVIEW, PRACTICE QUESTIONS, AND PROVEN STRATEGIES TO PASS WITH CONFIDENCE PACT Essential Academic Skills: Tests 701, 702, 703 Descriptive writing Writing used to create detailed descriptions of people, places, and things, and/or mood and atmosphere. Can stand alone or be part of a narrative Sensory details descriptions of sight, sound, touch, smell, taste transition words words that create a sense of time and organize events in the story narrative writing writing that tells a story or describes a specific person, place, or thing. Persuasive/argumentative writing writing that seeks to convince the reader ot believe the writer's opinion on a topic Examples of narrative/descriptive writing short stories, vignettes, letters, memoirs, and poems Examples of Persuasive/argumentative writingadvertisements, commercials, speeches, newspaper editorials, debates Expository/Informative writing writing that explains a topic or gives general information on a topic examples of Expository/Informative writing compare/contrast essays, brochures, research reports, informative pieces. rhetorical patterns sequential order, chronological order, order of importance, spacial order, cause and effect, problem and solution, claim and refutation, compare and contrast sequential order orderly progression of events, ideas or steps Chronological order orderly progression of events based on time order