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Week 8 Activities
Interactive activities this week are to analyze short essay answers and quiz yourself on essay direction words. Actullay I was looking for some examples of bad essay answers for you to analyze, but haven't found these sites yet. If you find any let me know. However, I did find a cartoon on the College Essay Burnout! Visit Wooster College for the Official College of Wooster Admission Comic Book!

http://www.wooster.edu/admissions/comicbook/page9.html

The online exercise is to analyze two short essay answers and tell us which one is the best. Scroll down the Writing Essay Exams handout at Purdue University until you get to the exercises. Which is the better answer to this essay question: Discuss the contribution of William Morris to book design, using as an example his edition of the works of Chaucer.? You get to play teacher!

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_essay.html

Now try your skills with Essay Test Direction Words at the University of Hawaii:

http://motted.hawaii.edu/~quizuser/quizzes/chopper/directionwords.html