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| There's no doubt that exams can make fools of us all. They are often unpleasant to make, unpleasant to take, and unpleasant to read. They may not show what the student has learned, or what the teacher wanted students to learn. They may not teach the writer or the reader anything, and instead may reenforce those experiences that work against teaching and learning. Examwriting is too important to leave to the classroom or to a particular course. You can transform examwriting from an exercise in meeting arbitrary pressures into a process for discovering and presenting meaning; and no matter how narrow an assignment, the act of writing can teach the writer something useful about his or her own writing process. With QUICK WRITING PROCESS, the task of examwriting is twofold: first, to do a good job of writing under pressure; and second, to improve your process of matching ideas, perceptions, and feelings with words on the page. People not used to planning writing almost always upset the balance of an essay in some way: too much middle, not enough beginning, or no conclusion. They may have too many specifics and not enough generalizations. They may fail to develop their most convincing piece of evidence and give too many subsidiary points, or they may leave out the best examples to illuminate their argument. On exam essays, without the benefit of a second draft, a lack of planning can be disastrous. Exams foster anxiety and increase the writer's sense of helplessness. Some people put their faith in quantity, and race through an exam at top speed. But you can write a lot and say very little; and you can think a lot, write only a little, and still answer questions fully. Sprinters prepare for the few moments of their race through months of continuous work with weights and training runs, and by shaping their diets and work habits around competition; examwriting requires the same kind of preparation. Other people envision examwriting as entirely unpredictable. Their sense of helplessness is reenforced by the common notion that you cannot study for some tests: "Either you know the stuff or you don't." Finally, there are the loopholes in the exam process. A few students who have done little work in a course will do well on an exam because, understanding the inherent weaknesses in the system of making, writing, and reading exams, they substitute style for substance. But once you understand the context for an essay exam, the relationship between the method and the material in a course, the unarticulated agenda and the stated expectations of the exam maker, then essay exams are not very mysterious at all. Good examwriting depends on preparation before and during the exam, and a determination to make the exam useful not only in itself but as a way of improving your skill as a writer. The essay exam is an immediate challenge within a larger context of common-sense preparation: attending lectures and taking good notes to review for the test; keeping good notes on the assigned readings; reviewing course handouts and the papers and comments you get back during the term; reading beyond the required list; and discussing questions throughout the term with your instructor. In some schools, you can review previous exams on file in the library. A few students do all these things as preparation for an exam; some do nothing at all. But a good deal of what takes place on the day of the exam depends on consistent preparation. In this context, QUICK WRITING PROCESS examwriting helps you plan, generate, and produce good essays, while constantly improving your capacity to discover and present ideas. |
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