Final
Exam Instructions 8Ð10 A.M. in Rm.
B-124
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:15
A.M.Ð12:15 P.M. in Rm. B-132
You will be writing a cause-and-effect analysis
paper in class, addressing one of the topics on page 440 of the Patterns
for a Purpose
textbook.
You may feel free to use Diana Hacker's A
Writer's Reference
as well as a dictionary and/or thesaurus, both in drafting your
outline/introduction-conclusion and at the final exam itself.
You will be expected to generate an outline
of your essay in advance (before Tuesday, December 16), including
drafting the introduction and conclusion paragraphs and deciding what causes
and/or effects you intend to explore; however, the 3Ð5 paragraphs
of the essay's body should be written during the 2-hour time period on Tuesday.[1] Like the midterm, part
of this assessment is to see how well you write/finish a paper in a timed
setting.
Remember some important points from Chapter
9: your cause-and-effect analysis should be free of errors in logic (see pp.
385Ð386).
You should make sure you have at least three (3) causes/effects and 2Ð3
corollary causes/effects as appropriate.
Please submit your outline along with your
finished essay at the end of the Final Exam period.
You may, of course, feel free to ask me
questions during the exam. The final exam cannot be made up. If you are
not present for the final exam, you will lose those 100 points.
Your finished paper should have a proper
heading, header, 1" margins, in 12-point, Times New Roman font,
double-spaced, 2Ð3 pages in length.
*N.B. Thursday, December 11, is your
unofficial Reading Day for English 101: we will not be having a class. Instead,
spend this time catching up on your reading/work for school (or sleep in) ÐÐ
mentally and physically prepare yourself for final exam week. If you would like
to meet with me about your final exam essay or for a final conference about
your writing/grade, I will be in the classroom during our regularly scheduled
class time catching up on my own reading/work.
Further, if you would like
your final exam essay returned to you, please bring a self-addressed stamped envelope with you to
the final exam; otherwise, your paper will be kept for a few weeks and then
discarded (shredded and recycled).
Thus ends the class.
(Best of luck in
102!)
[1] Bring a typed or handwritten copy of your outline/intro-conclusion paragraphs to class, to be turned in along with your final draft. Feel free to also bring these notes on a flash drive, to avoid having to re-type anything.