Friday, April 28, 2006

Final Exam

Check the JCJC website to see when your class period meets for the final exam.

The final exam for English 1123 will be part multiple choice and part discussion. It will cover research methods, documentation, plagiarism, and grammar.

Things to study:

Define/recognize databases and search engines
Identify what kinds of sources can be found in specific databases (see library handbook)
Identify methods of evaluating sources for quality
Define terms learned while doing research (plagiarism, block quotation, et al, ellipses, etc.)
Identify correct/incorrect MLA citations
Identify correct/incorrect paraphrases
Define types of essays (argument, narrative, definition, cause and effect, etc.)
Identify grammatical errors (subject/verb agreement errors, comma splices, fused sentences, sentence fragments, pronoun errors, comma errors)
Identify and discuss various steps in the research process

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