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Title: Timed Writing English 101103 Professor John Prince


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Timed WritingEnglish 101/103Professor John
Prince
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Timed Writing
  • Characteristics
  • Limited amount of time (about 1-2 hours)
  • Prompt usually not given in advance
  • Stress and anxiety for students
  • Goals for Students
  • Demonstrate ability to synthesize quickly
  • Time (and stress) management
  • Demonstrate competency in writing

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Timed Writing
  • Writing is still a process
  • Gathering ideas
  • Organizing ideas
  • Drafting
  • Revising
  • Proofreading
  • Key is learning what to prioritize
  • Be prepared before you take the exam

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Timed Writing
  • Gathering/Organizing Ideas 5-10 min.
  • Do not start drafting your essay immediately
  • Read and understand promptfocus and rhetorical
    approaches
  • Combine first two stages of the process
  • Brainstorm, Freewrite, Map, Cluster on a scrap
    sheet of paper
  • Decide how to organize and arrange ideas
  • Establish a thesis!!

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Timed Writing
  • Drafting the Essay 30-35 min.
  • Keep scrap sheet nearby to refer to
  • Write continuously for 2/3 time allotted
  • Write quickly but neatly enough to be read
  • If you get stuck, move to the next idea
  • Stop drafting with no fewer than 10 minutes
    remaining
  • Dont panic

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Timed Writing
  • Revision 5-10 min.
  • Focus on global revision
  • Thesis statement
  • Paragraphs
  • Organization
  • Unity
  • Development
  • Clarity and Expression of ideas

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Timed Writing
  • Proofreading 3-5 min. if time allows
  • Finish global revision first
  • Mechanical problems which interfere with
    coherence syntax and word choice
  • Smaller issues spelling and punctuation

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Timed Writing
  • Hand-written exam
  • Write clearly but quickly
  • Leave space where needed to add new ideas later
    when revising
  • Cross out deleted ideas with one (1) clear line
    through the text
  • Make sure to include a title and your name!

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Timed Writing
  • Word processed exam
  • Double Space
  • Save every 5 min. to your floppy or Zip disk
  • Run spell checker, but save first!!
  • Visually proofread!!
  • Make sure to include a title and your name!
  • Leave extra minute or two to print!!
  • Hand printed copy to your instructor!!

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Timed Writing
  • Sample prompt
  • Compare and contrast the differences in
    leadership style between Thomas Jefferson and
    Alexander Hamilton, and argue which one was the
    more effective leader
  • Notice key words compare contrast argue and
    more effective
  • What two rhetorical tasks are you asked to do
    explicitly?
  • What other rhetorical tasks are involved here?

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Timed Writing
  • http//www.csun.edu/hflrc006/strategies.html
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