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ENG101 Final Exam Prep

For your final exam, you will be answering a variety of the following questions.
Be prepared to answer any combination of the questions in 3-4 pages.

1. Consider your accomplishments this term; describe the strengths and

weaknesses of your work in this course in terms of both your approaches to
writing and your written texts.

2. Discuss some of the steps you took to reach the objectives you set for yourself
in this course. Did your objectives change during the semester? If so, describe
how. What new objectives will you set for yourself for future writing tasks?

3. What strategies will you take away from this semester to use in other classes?

4. Which essays do you feel especially proud of? Explain why.

5. Which essay (or writing experience) did you learn the most from? Describe
what you learned.

6. Which piece of writing did you find particularly interesting or challenging?

Explain why.

7. Review readers’ comments (from your peers and your instructor). These
comments may be either positive or constructive. Identify one comment that
appears on two or more of your papers. A comment that shows up on 2 or more
papers probably indicates a strength or weakness. Briefly describe how you
plan to continue to build on this area (if it is strength) or how you plan to improve
in this area (if it is a weakness).

8. In reviewing your essays, what surprises you about the writing you completed
for this class? What surprises you about the approaches you’ve used to do the
writing?
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9. Review the following competencies for the class. What steps did you take to
reach the following competencies? Which competencies have you fulfilled this
semester? Explain your response.
ENG101 Course Competencies
Through a minimum of four writing projects comprising at least 3,000 words (final
drafts), the student will demonstrate an understanding of expository writing as a
process through the ability to do the following:

1. Analyze specific rhetorical contexts, including circumstance, purpose, topic,

audience, and writer, as well as the writing’s ethical, political, and cultural
implications.

2. Organize writing to support a central idea through unity, coherence, and

logical development appropriate to a specific writing context.

3. Use appropriate conventions in writing including consistent voice, tone,

diction, grammar, and mechanics.

4. Summarize, paraphrase and quote from sources to maintain academic

integrity and to develop and support one’s own ideas.

5. Use feedback obtained from peer review, instructor comments and/or other
resources to revise writing.

6. Assess one’s own writing strengths and identify strategies for improvement
through instructor conference, portfolio review, written evaluation, and/or other
methods.

7. Generate, format, and edit, and writing using appropriate technologies.