Week 8 — Midterm Review & Exam

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Why this matters

A business major reading a competitor's report and a nursing student reviewing a new care guideline both have to say what a text says, how it persuades, and whether they agree, in that order, before anyone trusts their judgment.

In plain language

This week you look back at Weeks 1 to 7 and see how the first half of the course fits together. Most mistakes a first-year writer makes are a swapped pair (two neighboring ideas mistaken for each other, such as a summary and a response). So this review gives each week one distinction to hold onto, seven in all. You also learn one new move, the three-sentence habit (writing what a text says, how it persuades, and whether you agree as three separate sentences). That habit is the reading skill the research weeks start with.

• Already covered: Weeks 1 to 7, from the writing process through argument.
• This week: seven swapped pairs, the three-sentence habit, and the midterm.
• How they connect: each week gave you one pair to keep apart.
• Where we're going next: Week 9, Research: Finding & Evaluating Sources, uses the habit on every source.

Focus

What is the one distinction each topic asks for, and can you test a sentence against it?

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

• [ ] run the one test that keeps each of the seven pairs apart
• [ ] repair an opinion-leak and name a missing warrant
• [ ] write summary, then analysis, then agreement on a short text

To-do

Plan your week

1. Read Chapter 8 (about 35 minutes), then the lecture and slides.
2. Do the practice set (about 20 minutes) and the discussion (about 45 minutes).
3. Use the midterm study guide and practice exam, then take the midterm.

Checkpoint: write the three-sentence habit on a short text, with agreement last.

You've got this

You have done this work before. Take it in order, and ask your instructor early if a test snags.

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