truc

Some of you will remember back when we coached C., then age 10 I think, to answer all open-ended math questions with the words:

I used a strategy of guess and check and then I looked for a pattern.

Yesterday we were frantically trying to teach C. how to write in time for him to take the ISEE test next Saturday, and we came up with two sure-fire trucs:

• The final paragraph should being with the word "Finally."
  

• The concluding sentence or paragraph should begin with the words "For all of these reasons."

It works.