Departmental Final Examination asks you to discuss and analyze your own writing, reflecting on the ways it has changed throughout the semester.

Departmental Final Examination asks you to discuss and analyze your own writing, reflecting on the ways it has changed throughout the semester.

PREPARING FOR THE FINAL EXAM

• Re-read the papers you wrote for English this semester, paying careful attention to the feedback you received from your peers and instructor. Those feedback are: I am to wordy, I need to write clear sentences, I write confusily a lot while write on my essays, I reuse the same sentences over and over throught the essays, sometimes I don’t write gramatically correct, sometimes I change the thesis
• Consider the challenges you faced in your writing; locate examples that you think illustrate those challenges in your own work.
• Review the Learning Objectives for English. The learning objectives are: ·      
  Read and listen critically and analytically,
  including identifying an argument’s major assumptions and assertions and
  evaluating its supporting evidence.

  ·      
  Write clearly and coherently in varied, academic
  formats (such as formal essays, research papers, and reports) using standard
  English and appropriate technology to critique and improve one’s own and
  others’ texts.

  ·      
  Demonstrate research skills using appropriate
  technology, including

  gathering,
  evaluating, and synthesizing primary and secondary sources.

  ·      
  Support a thesis with well-reasoned arguments,
  and communicate

  persuasively
  across a variety of contexts, purposes, audiences, and media.

  ·      
  Formulate original ideas and relate them to the
  ideas of others by

  employing the
  conventions of ethical attribution and citation. 

  • Be able to
    respond proficiently in writing to literary works.
  • Display
    familiarity with literary works by a variety of authors in a variety of
    genres.
  • Be able to offer
    an extended discussion in writing of two or more texts and authors in
    relation to each other.
  • Demonstrate the
    ability to analyze and interpret based on careful attention both to the
    detail and overall design of a literary work.
  • Demonstrate an
    understanding of the role of context in determining meaning.

tips for the essay

• Have your papers and their drafts with you when you sit down to write the exam.

• You will have to read the exam prompt and to plan, write, revise, and edit an essay in response to questions. You will be expected to manage your time carefully to allow for planning, writing, editing, and proofreading.

GRADING AND EVALUATION

To do well on the English Departmental Final Exam, you must demonstrate that you can:

• Develop a coherent, organized, and substantive analysis and argument (thesis) about your development as a reader and writer throughout this course;

• Draw connections between the Learning Objectives for the course and what you have done in your own writing;

• Incorporate specific examples from your own writing to support your thesis, using formal or informal references;

• Write in clear prose with an appropriate level of correctness.