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I want to say something about these strategies for taking the final
examination.
Now, as you know, it's worth a significant percentage of your final course grade, so
I'll talk about this in terms of if you're taking this as an Internet
course and also talk about it if we meet
face-to-face in a classroom. So, if you
are taking it as an Internet
course, then understand that
you cannot take the final examination at the Taylor campus, you cannot take it
on the Cameron campus, but you can take
it at the Temple College campus in
Temple, Texas, and if you do that, there's no monetary charge. There are no appointments in
advance; they just see students on a walk-in basis,
and the examination runs for seventy-five minutes. . .
to write the essay.
There's also list of Texas testing centers right on the handout,
and with
the Internet version
of this course . . . and if you are taking this as an Internet course. . .
. . .and you want to take it somewhere other than the Temple College Testing
Center,
then you have to choose from that list.
If you're outside of texas,
then you have to locate your own testing center,
and I would approve it.
In either event, if you're not taking it at the temple contest and center,
a minimum one-week before
the final exam, so by Monday of pre-final exams week,
would be the latest you could possibly let me know about an alternate testing
center,
and if you don't let me know by then, I'm under no obligation whatsoever to
approve the testing center, and I may well direct you to take it at the Temple College
Testing Center.
If you are in a class like a hybrid or face-to-face class where we
actually do meet in a physical classroom,
then you'll take it in the computer lab,
and I will announce the date and time of the exam, and i will be the proctor,
so
here is the basic strategy:
what we want is. . .
by "we" I mean the English Department,
we want a thesis that has two parts, and so I would advise you to look at the videos on the
assignment prompts for Essay Two and Essay Three,
and model your thesis after that; your thesis should be all one-sentence. . .
the final sentence of your introductory paragraph and the two parts it should have would
be
part one:
the debatable claim, which is the position of your paper. The example I use on this
assignment prompt is about tobacco companies, so tobacco companies should be
held liable for the damage they do to people's health. That's part one. That's the
debatable claim.. .
"because" . . . were still in the same sentence. . . add reason one, reason two, reason three,
and then,
chronologically,
you focus on those three reasons in your three body paragraphs, and you compose a
conclusion paragraph.
So look at the video and the handout,
The Five Paragraph Essay Format. Read this hand out carefully,
and compose your thesis statement along those lines, and it will give you the
best chance for doing well.
Also, follow the rules for academic prose,
double-space, put your essay in the correct font. . .
Times New Roman twelve-point. Grammar counts. Punctuation counts.
All of these things count,
so just leave yourself
some time... ten minutes or something
to do a quick review. Proofread and edit,
and you print it and turn it in,
and if you're an Internet student, you still print it and turn it in, but you'll also
upload a copy to the drop box. The proctor
at the testing center
will help you with all that. Thank you.