Midterm Exam THIS WEEK!

Don't forget about the midterm exam this week!  Many of you may not be very familiar with completing essay-style exams.  Since there is a good amount of writing in this test, I wanted to share some links with you:

Here is a Washington University webpage to help political science students -- they make excellent points on constructing your answers, though I suspect this is targetted towards a slightly larger exam than ours.

This webpage is from a Florida State biology professor -- the first section is extremely similar to my own point of view, so it's worth a look.  You probably won't want to spend time looking over his examples, though, since the subject matter is so different from ours.

Finally, this short video is a nice discussion of answering longer essay questions (you'll have ONE of these) -- if you've never had to answer a 3 - 5 paragraph essay question on a test, this is DEFINITELY worth watching.

Remember, you can access the instructions for the Midterm Exam under the Documents tab on the blog, or feel free to email me with your questions.