Final Test Guidelines

ENGL215-001: English Composition II
Final Test Guidelines
Monday, 12:45-2:45 p.m

Assignment Write an essay in response to a short segment of the film, Patch Adams. Incorporate research in your response and document this research accurately.

Objectives

This class has been designed to teach you to be researchers capable of locating and using sources to support your written observations about subjects that interest you. The final test, which is intended to assess the development of the skills you have practiced this semester, has the following objectives:

Respond to a need to communicate in writing using research skills.
Form a response to a rhetorical situation and support this response with references to outside sources.
Engage in the activity of finding, analyzing, and using outside sources in your own writing.
Introduce borrowed information clearly and effectively in your own writing.
Cite borrowed sources in a reference page in APA style using a handbook.

Procedure

You will be shown a short segment of the film Patch Adams which offers an alternative perspective on bedside manners, this time more sympathetically, and from the perspective, not of a patient, but of a doctor.
Form a response to the movie, one which addresses some issue or aspect of the doctor/nurse - patient relationship.
Locate information you might use in supporting your response or observations from the articles on bedside manners which were provided to you at the beginning of the semester.
Plan and write your response, incorporating support from your sources.
Introduce your support properly in your essay.
Document your sources in proper APA style in a reference page.
Submit your response (either handwritten or typed on a laptop and printed or sent by email).

What to bring

You may bring and use the following at the time of the final examination:

Your Pocket Wadsworth Handbook.
Several sheets of paper
A working pen or your laptop.
The articles I provided at the beginning of the semester, the ones you read on bedside manners.
Any papers you've previously written which you think might be helpful.

Evaluation

Successful responses will

Offer a clear, well written claim or response about the segment of the film,
Which is fully developed and supported in two-three pages,
With references to at least two external sources,
Properly introduced in the text of the essay, and
Accurately documented in APA style in a reference section at the end of the response.

Assignment	Write an essay in response to a short segment of the film, Patch Adams. Incorporate research in your response and document this research accurately.
Objectives	This class has been designed to teach you to be researchers capable of locating and using sources to support your written observations about subjects that interest you. The final test, which is intended to assess the development of the skills you have practiced this semester, has the following objectives: Respond to a need to communicate in writing using research skills. Form a response to a rhetorical situation and support this response with references to outside sources. Engage in the activity of finding, analyzing, and using outside sources in your own writing. Introduce borrowed information clearly and effectively in your own writing. Cite borrowed sources in a reference page in APA style using a handbook.
Procedure	You will be shown a short segment of the film Patch Adams which offers an alternative perspective on bedside manners, this time more sympathetically, and from the perspective, not of a patient, but of a doctor. Form a response to the movie, one which addresses some issue or aspect of the doctor/nurse - patient relationship. Locate information you might use in supporting your response or observations from the articles on bedside manners which were provided to you at the beginning of the semester. Plan and write your response, incorporating support from your sources. Introduce your support properly in your essay. Document your sources in proper APA style in a reference page. Submit your response (either handwritten or typed on a laptop and printed or sent by email).
What to bring	You may bring and use the following at the time of the final examination: Your Pocket Wadsworth Handbook. Several sheets of paper A working pen or your laptop. The articles I provided at the beginning of the semester, the ones you read on bedside manners. Any papers you've previously written which you think might be helpful.
Evaluation	Successful responses will Offer a clear, well written claim or response about the segment of the film, Which is fully developed and supported in two-three pages, With references to at least two external sources, Properly introduced in the text of the essay, and Accurately documented in APA style in a reference section at the end of the response.