I've posted the guidelines for the midterm exam next week under the "speech and exam info" tab on the blog. You'll want to be sure and look over the instructions, as they will give you some idea of how to study for the exam.
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:
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 targeted to 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 I am expecting you to apply the Toulmin model of argumentation to ALL of our course work -- this DEFINITELY includes the exam!
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