How to pass Rutgers Expository Writing Final?

leapformula4
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 01:28:25 +0000

I have received constant C’s on all my essays, the final is coming close, and I NP’d (not passed) the first final!
The final will be based on three readings, and will be done in class. My professor said she would grade it like a rough draft, so not as critically as a final draft, yet I have not passed the first midterm so IDK how that would apply to me.

So far the only knowledge that I have of passing the Final is:

1. put 2 quotes from different sources in the same paragraph, then analyze each.

2. Basic structure:
4 paragraphs:
…2 body paragraphs that do #1 above and attempts to synthesize and analyze, introduce the quotes and come up with a introduction and conclusion,
…1 intro that introduces the quotes and my argument,
…1 closing that further analyzes my argument where I have forgotten too do so.

That is about it. I am able to write an essay on a computer when I can write a sentence and then write one before it, but in a timed essay everything has to be in line and written after the last sentence. I might also have trouble finding connections between sources and synthesizing.

Does anyone have any hints for how to pass the final?