English 1A Final Exam Study Guide
To prepare for your short answer/multiple-choice, final exam, you should do the following:
□ What it means “to reason” and “to offer a line of reasoning.”
□ Enthymemes—what they are, how to identify the parts of them, how to create them.
□ The parts of an argument—what they are, what they do, how to identify them.
□ Stasis points and shared grounds
□ Freestanding/Dangling/Hit and Run/Dropped Quotes and how to eliminate them.
□ Introducing and parenthetically citing quotations.
□ MLA conventions for page setup and in-text citations—including spacing and how to punctuate titles of magazines, newspapers, books, articles, etc..
□ Evaluating sources.
□ Claims of value, fact, and policy.
□ Acknowledging, accommodating, and refuting opposing points of view
□ Comma usage
□ Subordination and Coordination