Archive for April, 2007

Last Week and Finals Schedule

Just in case you didn’t write it down:

May 1st and 3rd will be spent doing in-class work towards your cultural understanding presentation and paper.

May 8–8am-10am Final Exam period for 8am class

May 10–9am-11am  Final Exam period for 9:30 class.

Papers for the Cultural Understanding Period are due before the final exam.

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Final Exam Prompt

Since you are my guinea pig classes, for your final exam I would like you to give me some feedback on the use of the blog this semester.  In an essay blog post long enough to adequately answer the questions and demonstrate your abilities as a writer, provide your feedback on the blog as a whole. What aspects of the blog worked for you? Why were these conducive to your learning? What aspects did not work for you? Why not? If you could change one aspect of  the blog, what would it be and why? Will you continue to blog in the future–either for personal reasons or for academic reasons? Why or why not?

Remember–you need to proofread this essay very carefully.

Also—remember to add a comment to this post when you have completed your essay so that I know to grade it.

Essays are due before class on Thursday May 3.

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Essay Exam Blogs 1 & 2

Before writing this post you need to read the two selections in your textbook listed below:

Chapter 24

  1. “How Exams Written Under Pressure Differ from Other Essays” (714-715).
  2. “Analyzing Exam Questions” (717-722).

When you have finished reading these sections, I want you to create two separate blog entries. Read the rest of this entry »

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Week Thirteen Review/Week Fourteen Preview

Researched Essays are due by Midnight Monday!

Last week you had the opportunity to work on your essay and finalize the questions that you had in regards to the essay itself. For this week’s class, we will be moving into the essay exam unit and preparing for the final exam. It’ s time to return to your text and get a little bit of reading done. Read the rest of this entry »

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Week Twelve Review/Week Thirteen Preview

By now you should be progressing along with the completion of your researched essays. I want you to keep working on those and bring them to class with you so that you have them for the end of the class writing sessions we will be doing as well as for references to guide you through this week’s lectures. Read the rest of this entry »

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Request From A Peer

One of your peers is working on a paper involving the 2008 elections. Please help her out by taking this poll so she can complete her research.

See you Thursday

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