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From: owner-epl259au05rick@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
[mailto:owner-epl259au05rick@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu]On Behalf Of Rick
Mosholder
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 9:13 AM
To: epl259au05rick@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Subject: EPL 259D - week 10a


Hello everyone,

Final Exam

The final will be on-line on Tuesday, December 6th. It will open at 12:01
a.m. and close at 11:59 p.m. It should take less than two hours to complete,
but you will have the entire 24 hour period. I will be checking e-mail
messages throughout the day, up until 7:00 p.m. If you do the final after
that, you will not be able to get in touch with me if you run into an issue
(there are rarely any issues, but you take the risk). During the day, you
can submit your answers, leave the Gradebook, and come back later. You will
notice that there will be prompts throughout the exam to submit answers at
regular intervals...this is just to be sure the server doesn't time you out
when it hasn't heard from you for a while. Hit the submit button regularly
during the final so that you won't loose your work. You can still make
changes until the close.

I'm sending a review sheet with this message.

You'll have to be able to do a Q & A outline. There is an attachment called
Q & A Outline Notes on the website that summarizes how to do these.
Remember, texts and lectures are designed to convey a set of ideas in a
particular framework.
Q & A outlines result in questions that reveal both the framework and the
important ideas. Learning to discern the framework
and the important ideas is invaluable for students. How many times have we
gone into tests thinking we know the material, only to have the professor
ask us to put it into a framework that we hadn't perceived? Q & A outlines
reveal the framework, and tell you what to study. They also save time. If
you have a good textbook or set of notes, you can figure out what you need
to know just by framing simple questions right from headings and subheadings
(RCs) and by asking yourself "what is this paragraph/diagram/italicized term
about?" (RFs). The best questions are straightforward.

CC Web Charts and Skeleton Key diagrams serve a similar purpose. They a way
to organize material in order to make sense of it and remember it.

Rick