You will have 48 hours to complete the exam.
Begin the exam: Saturday, June 20 up to Monday, June 22
The final exam for this class will be non-traditional. You will do a long-distance workshop on MLA-style documentation on either your historical narrative or persuasive essay. To complete the workshop, you will check someone else’s citations and works cited page, and someone else will check your citations and works cited page. After you receive feedback from your partner, you should make corrections to your citations and works cited page for the essay your partner checked, and then re-upload your essay by Wednesday, June 24. Hopefully, if you follow this process, you will get the maximum number of points for documentation on your essay in addition to the maximum number of points for the final exam.
The first step in doing this exam will be for you to make sure that you have correct MLA-style documentation for either your historical narrative or persuasive essay. To have correct MLA-style documentation, you will need to have both in-text citations and a works cited page. Here is a page with a guide for correcting your documentation:
Basic Rules for MLA-style Documentation
Here is a list of steps for completing the final exam:
Correct the citations and works cited page for either your historical narrative or persuasive essay.
Upload the new draft of the essay to the Final Exam slot.
E-mail me to inform me which essay you want checked and that you are ready to take the final exam. The first day to begin the exam will be Saturday, June 20. The last day to begin the exam will be Monday, June 22.
I will assign you a partner and inform you that your partner’s essay is ready. You will have 48 hours from the date and time of my e-mail to send me the e-mail that says that you have finished checking your partner’s essay. If you are assigned a partner and you do not give your partner feedback within 48 hours, you will receive a 0 for the final exam.
Use highlights and, optionally, leave notes. Video guide on how to use Canvas for the peer reviews (Links to an external site.)
Check only the documentation (the citations and the works cited page). Do not make corrections. Instead, highlight citations that need to be corrected, text that needs a citation but does not have one, or works cited entries that are incorrectly formatted. Additionally, you can make comments to clarify why you have highlighted something.
Fill out the rubric for your partner’s essay. You will lose points if you do not deduct points for errors or if you deduct points when there are no errors.
Download and save your partner’s essay with highlights. I might ask you for the essay if I do not see the highlights on Canvas.
E-mail me to inform me that you have finished checking your partner’s essay.
When your partner is finished checking your essay, I will inform you. You can then double-check the documentation on your own essay and make necessary corrections. Upload your final drafts to the original slot on Canvas (either the Historical Narrative or the Persuasive Essay slot). You can upload multiple drafts to the same Canvas slot.
