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Final Exam Study Guide English 102: Composition 2 Spring 2019 Remember, composition courses are designed to teach you skills and techniques that will help you succeed and create higher quality work in other classes. One of the important goals for reviewing and taking a comprehensive exam is to ensure that you remember what we covered so that you can use it in the future. For the full schedule of Spring 2019 Exam times: https://www.uwstout.edu/academics/academic-services/registration-and-recordsoffice/important-dates-and-times/evaluation-dates-spring-2019 ENGL 102, Section 26: Tuesday, May 7th, 12:00-1:50 PM ENGL 102, Section 35: Tuesday, May 7th, 8:00-9:50 AM Exams are held in the regular session class meeting room (HH 143). The exam will consist of 10-12 questions. Some may be identical to the study questions below. 1. How can a student who is approaching a new topic figure out what search terms will yield the best results? a. Start out by researching the topic in general and use the abstract in articles to see that the main key words were. 2. What services or programs can you use to generate formatted bibliographic citations? a. 3. In what ways can you contact a UW Stout librarian? 4. How do you add highlighting or freehand notes to a PDF? 5. What does it mean to frame a quote? 6. What is a primary source? a. Introduce it, don’t just drop it in and not include information or explain. 7. Why do most college courses use APA format instead of MLA for citations? a. MLA is a literature format b. APA is more of the scientific aspect of writing. 8. What is the difference between “common knowledge” and “public domain”? a. Public domain- you can use without permission but still need to cite. b. Common knowledge- everyone knows it, no need to cite. 9. In what situations might you use Lynda.com? What is it? 10. How is Google Scholar different from Google.com? 11. What features does Google Scholar offer to help locate and organize research sources?

12. There are many ways to respond to an argument that go beyond opposing or supporting it. What are some other ways to respond to an author’s claim? 13. What questions might you ask to productively complicate an argument? a. There is more to the story than a simple Yes or no 14. What is interlibrary loan, and how do you use it? 15. What kinds of potentially useful templates does Microsoft Word offer (whether as full documents or as insert options)? 16. What is a Creative Commons license? What kind of protection does it offer? 17. Copyright and licensing matter for reasons other than just knowing if you need a cite a work. What is at stake when you use a copyrighted source or acknowledge a copyright? (The answer to this question should probably involve the word “permission.”) 18. What is lateral searching? a. Looking up the author, the website, the information 19. Which specific databases that the UW Stout Library provides do you feel are especially useful? 20. If you want a completed document to keep the same formatting no matter where the file is viewed, what do you do? 21. What is an abstract? How can it help you in your research process? 22. What search parameters can you set when using Search@UW? 23. How can the “Tools” available under Google Image Search help you locate useful media for a project? 24. Why, besides the fact that anyone could potentially edit it, is it undesirable to cite Wikipedia in a college paper? a. Everything comes from other sources and it is a summary of other sources. This is simplified and is a summary of a summary. All secondary sources 25. The two most important factors to consider any time you compose a document are purpose and audience. Why? 26. Scholarly sources are not just reliable, academic sources. What criteria determine if a source is considered “scholarly”? 27. What do we mean when we refer to the “research conversation” surrounding a topic or field? a. Saying what you are responding to 28. What is the difference between a method and a methodology? 29. What’s wrong with conducting research only by using Google.com and scrolling through the first few pages? 30. Where can you look to find streaming videos and films on Stout Library website? 31. What steps should you take to smoothly integrate a quotation into a research paper? 32. What are the differences among direct quotations, paraphrases, and summaries? 33. In what situations might you choose to paraphrase a source rather than cite it directly? (Hint: Scientific research papers rely almost entirely on paraphrases.) 34. At what length should you choose to use block quote format, and why? a. More Four Lines- indent, set it off. It is more readable.

35. Many of your professors will expect you to save backups of your work using a cloud server. What is a cloud server, and what are some examples of cloud servers available to you? a. A server that can upload stuff up to. Icloud, Drive, etc. 36. What information should be included in an introduction? 37. How should the content of a conclusion be different from that of an introduction? 38. When might you choose to cite a source using a hyperlink instead of a formal APA in-text citation? 39. Why do scholarly sources require full bibliographic citations instead of hyperlinks? a. Links break over time 40. When you are using a hyperlink to refer to a source, which words or phrases should you choose to convert to a link (“turn blue”)? 41. Why might you use text styles (like Heading 1, Heading 2, Title, etc.) in a Microsoft Word document? 42. What differences do you need to take into account depending on whether you are addressing a popular or academic audience? 43. How do you take a screenshot? 44. How can you determine whether a website is a reliable and valid source of evidence for a research project?...