ENGL 1301 Final Examination
ENGL 1301
Final Examination
To all exam takers:
You must complete the exam in order to pass the class. Write a 3-4-page double-spaced essay to reflect on what you have learned about writing. You are by no means limited to the following questions, but writing around these questions can help you analyze your progress as a writer. This is a personal essay, so you can use the first-person point of view that shares your true observations in your personal voice.
Grading criteria
This essay must have a specific title and present your reflection on all the writing skills you have learned, for example, a central idea that controls your essay in the beginning, concise and clear sentences without grammatical mistakes, logical flow of sentences and paragraphs, …show more content…
fully-supported/developed statements with reasons and/or examples, and consistency in spacing, formatting, tense, reference, and voice (i.e.no mixed use of “I”, “you”, “they”).
In other words, your essay must have a central idea that is fully developed and supported by paragraphs.
All sentences/examples/details in each paragraph support/develop the single topic in that paragraph. All paragraphs support the thesis stated in the beginning of your essay. Simply connecting your answers to the questions below does not fulfill the requirement of the essay.
Questions for the Development of the Exam Essay:
Examine how you have been engaged in the writing process and describe how you have developed in terms of writing, analyzing, collecting data and researching, and decision-making this semester. Use some papers from this class as examples to explain in what ways you think you have improved writing and what you have learned about writing. The following questions may help you find things to say.
1. Which moments come to mind when you think back over the class? Good moments? Bad moments? Perplexing moments? Embarrassing moments? Exciting moments? 2. What do these moments tell about you as a student, about the teacher, and about the course? 3. What are you most proud of about your own effort or accomplishment in the course? Use a paper as an
example. 4. In what ways has your participation in the writing process affected your writing? Use an assignment as an example. 5. In what ways has rewriting helped you realize your strengths and weaknesses as a writer? 6. What's been the greatest challenge for you? 7. Give examples to illustrate if career-oriented assignments have helped you understand the purpose of college, research for making decisions, and career development. Have they helped you evaluate yourself, your life, and the way you write? 8. What aspects of you has this course brought out? What aspects did it leave untapped or unnoticed? 9. Imagine this course as a journey: where has it taken you? 10. If you could start over again, what would you do differently?
Ways to turn in your final exam
You must turn in your final exam paper any time before the end of the scheduled time for your class (see below). I will not accept late exam papers. Failure to complete the final exam will result in an F for this class.
There are many ways you can hand in your letter: 1. Turn it in to me during your exam hours (see below for exam schedule). I will be receiving your paper in my office; 2. Submit it to the blackboard; 3. Or email me your letter. Please check your email for my reply sometime later (probably in the next two days) to make sure that I have received your paper.
Exam schedule • 12:30-2:30, Tuesday, December 11.
Final Examination
To all exam takers:
You must complete the exam in order to pass the class. Write a 3-4-page double-spaced essay to reflect on what you have learned about writing. You are by no means limited to the following questions, but writing around these questions can help you analyze your progress as a writer. This is a personal essay, so you can use the first-person point of view that shares your true observations in your personal voice.
Grading criteria
This essay must have a specific title and present your reflection on all the writing skills you have learned, for example, a central idea that controls your essay in the beginning, concise and clear sentences without grammatical mistakes, logical flow of sentences and paragraphs, …show more content…
fully-supported/developed statements with reasons and/or examples, and consistency in spacing, formatting, tense, reference, and voice (i.e.no mixed use of “I”, “you”, “they”).
In other words, your essay must have a central idea that is fully developed and supported by paragraphs.
All sentences/examples/details in each paragraph support/develop the single topic in that paragraph. All paragraphs support the thesis stated in the beginning of your essay. Simply connecting your answers to the questions below does not fulfill the requirement of the essay.
Questions for the Development of the Exam Essay:
Examine how you have been engaged in the writing process and describe how you have developed in terms of writing, analyzing, collecting data and researching, and decision-making this semester. Use some papers from this class as examples to explain in what ways you think you have improved writing and what you have learned about writing. The following questions may help you find things to say.
1. Which moments come to mind when you think back over the class? Good moments? Bad moments? Perplexing moments? Embarrassing moments? Exciting moments? 2. What do these moments tell about you as a student, about the teacher, and about the course? 3. What are you most proud of about your own effort or accomplishment in the course? Use a paper as an
example. 4. In what ways has your participation in the writing process affected your writing? Use an assignment as an example. 5. In what ways has rewriting helped you realize your strengths and weaknesses as a writer? 6. What's been the greatest challenge for you? 7. Give examples to illustrate if career-oriented assignments have helped you understand the purpose of college, research for making decisions, and career development. Have they helped you evaluate yourself, your life, and the way you write? 8. What aspects of you has this course brought out? What aspects did it leave untapped or unnoticed? 9. Imagine this course as a journey: where has it taken you? 10. If you could start over again, what would you do differently?
Ways to turn in your final exam
You must turn in your final exam paper any time before the end of the scheduled time for your class (see below). I will not accept late exam papers. Failure to complete the final exam will result in an F for this class.
There are many ways you can hand in your letter: 1. Turn it in to me during your exam hours (see below for exam schedule). I will be receiving your paper in my office; 2. Submit it to the blackboard; 3. Or email me your letter. Please check your email for my reply sometime later (probably in the next two days) to make sure that I have received your paper.
Exam schedule • 12:30-2:30, Tuesday, December 11.