Final Exam Essay

Final Exam Essay Instructions Your written final exam is to write an essay discussing what you have learned this semester. Use the following questions to guide your response. Remember to use effective organization, development, sentence structure and word choice. •    What have you learned about writing? About yourself as a writer? •    What have you learned about research? About documentation? •    What will you do differently next semester to be more successful? •    What advice do you have for students taking this class? •    What did you enjoy most about the course? What did you enjoy least? •    Give yourself a final grade for the course and explain why. Course Student Learning Outcomes: The student will be able to •    conceive ideas about a topic for the purpose of writing organize, select, and relate ideas, and outline and develop them into coherent paragraphs and essays. •    write Standard English sentences with correct sentence structure:  verb forms; punctuation, capitalization, possessives, plural forms, and other matters of mechanics; word choice and spelling. •    vary his/her writing style, vocabulary, and sentence structure for different readers and purposes. •    improve his/her writing by restructuring, correcting errors, and rewriting. •    gather information from primary and secondary sources; write an essay using this research; quote, paraphrase, and summarize accurately; and cite sources properly College Format: Each professor you have might request that you format your papers in a specific way that is different from what other professors have asked you to do. That’ s fine; give him or her whatever has been asked of you. (After all, this professor is the one who will be grading your papers.) However, if the professor does not make any specific requirements of you in terms of formatting, you should use the following f ormat. This format will be required for your English class this semester. Submissions: ? If submitting a document via an eLearn d rop box, the document must be saved as .rtf (Rich Text Format). This will allow any computer to open the file. ? Always save your files in at least two places each time you open the file and work with it: on your computer and jump drive, email it to yourself, or place it on the cloud. This way, you will have a back - up should your computer crash or you lose your jump drive. Paper Format: ? Use Times New Roman font, 12 pt. size (which is the exact same font and size in which this document is typed.) ? Use 1” or 1.25” margins only (Word is preset at the correct margins, so you do not need to change the margins) ? Double - space the entire document; this includes your heading info on the first page and Works Cited pages . U se the computer’s double - space command; do not hit hard return/enter twice at the end of each line. ? Use justified left margin (i.e., smooth margin) and jagged right (not smooth); Word is already preset for this. ? Change the space between paragraphs to 0/0; the new version of Word puts an extra large space between paragraphs, and you will need to manually change this on each document. Highlight your entire docu ment by hitting Ctrl + A, then right click on your document and select Paragraph; then change spacing between paragraphs to Before 0, After 0, and line spacing to Double Spacing