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PREPARING FOR ESSAY TESTS

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answer. How close is your question to the real question? You may want to

review Chapter 7, “Knowing What You Know”; and Chapter 8, “Knowing

When You Don’t Know.”

CORRECTING YOUR WRITING

All writers find that they think a lot faster than they write. This means

there are often words missing, or extra words, or word endings on the

paper that the writer did not plan to put there. As you know, nobody can

write as fast as they think! So once you’ve written down your answer to

an essay question, you should go back over it to correct it. It’s usually OK

(and expected!) to mark up the exam book, showing where you want a

sentence or paragraph to go, crossing out words you don’t want, and the

like.

Use Your Learning Style to Polish Your Writing

In the revising and editing phase of your essay test, you can still use your

strongest learning style.

• If you learn best by hearing: Read what you’ve written softly to

yourself. Read slowly and carefully. Listen to your own voice.

Pretend you’re the exam grader. Is what you’re hearing the mean￾ing you meant to convey?

• If you learn best by seeing: Carefully and slowly read what you’ve

written, looking carefully for spelling, grammar, and content errors.

• If you learn best by order: Grammar probably comes to you

more easily than spelling. Check your spelling by reading softly to

yourself; take it word by word so you don’t miss any subtle mistakes.

• If you learn best by using images: You’re on order alert. First

check that the descriptions you’ve written follow a clear order,

before you check grammar and spelling. As you read softly to

yourself, compare what you see with what you hear.

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