Preparation for the Semester Exam

Today we will be preparing for the Research Semester Exam. For your exam you will have 90 minutes to find and use resources to write an essay to answer a question that you will be given on the day.

You will write your essay on a Google Doc and transfer ownership to me by the end of the exam period.

To prepare for this, today you are going to practice using this past paper. You have the whole lesson to do this, you can find other resources online using Questia, Worldbook, Newsbank or Google to add to the evidence you are using to support your argument.

You will be graded using the following guide

Criteria	Possible	Awarded
Main ideas support/argue the thesis	[10 marks]
Main ideas are supported by evidence	[10 marks]
Correct citations	[20 marks]
Argumentation	[10 marks]
Scholarly/Academic style	[10 marks]
Organization	[10 marks]
Total	70 marks