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Study the following items for the final. You can find the review information in each of the Hawkes assignments. I recommend that you do some of the practice activities in the Hawkes assignments. You can also review the power point presentations and lecture notes posted in the weekly modules.

Know the purpose for writing.

Review genres and be able to list the ones discussed in Hawkes.

Review writing conventions

Note-taking strategies

Finding the main idea

The five stages of the writing process, and what is done in each of those stages.

Review the chapter discussing the characteristics of a sentence.

Patterns of organization.

Sentence patterns discussed in Chapter 9.

What are the common sentence errors? Be prepared to identify them in a sentence.

Define parallelism and be prepared to take a sentence and make the points parallel.

Be familiar with comma and semicolon usage.

Know the parts of the essay.

Where is the thesis statement placed in an essay?

What are the parts of a body paragraph?

What is the definition for an inference? Be prepared to identify the logical inference after read a paragraph or sentence.

What is the difference between a fact and an opinion? Be prepared to read sentences and determine if they are facts or opinion, or both.

What are biased words?

What is the formula for making an inference?