Hello to all,
Just a reminder that there will be a quiz Friday morning. It will be the first thing scheduled when class starts at 9 am. The Quiz Study Sheet handed out in class last week is your best guide for how to study for the quiz. The information from that sheet is also pasted below. If you have any specific questions about the quiz, you can ask them in a comment added to this post, or contact me in one of the ways listed on the syllabus.
Quiz Study Sheet
Our first quiz will be at the start of class next week, so it will be particularly important to be to class on time next Friday. The quiz will cover some of the main points and principles from the readings assigned for the first weeks and will also have a few exercises on the points of grammar covered today in class.
Readings
Dialogues readings covered on the quiz include:
Pages 3-16, 61-82 and 122-144
A Writer’s Reference readings covered on the quiz include:
Pages 10-23, 57-76 and 358-378
Points to concentrate on include:
--Thesis statements, including recognizing the thesis sentence in a piece of writing
--Summarizing and paraphrasing
--Constructing reasonable Arguments on pages 67-73
Grammar
Grammar material covered on the quiz includes the handouts on Sentence Fragments and Parallelism and the following pages in A Writer’s Reference:
Pages 93-96 on Parallelism
Pages 205-209 on Sentence Fragments
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