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- - - - There will be self-assessments
      - You will not need to complete the exam.
    - - You will need to complete the exam.
      - Will only be allowed to take the exams if the course is complete.
      - 50% of the course must be completed to register for the exam.
        
        Register at EBUSprovincialexam.weebly.com at the deadline for EBUS to arrange the provincial exam.
  - - - Students must write all course exams/quizzes without the aid of electronic writer resources
      - EBUS Academy is allowed to request a proctored or supervised exam at any time.
      - When testing irregularities occur
        
        EBUS Academy may refuse to grade exams or cancel exam or course grade.
        
        EBUS Academy may give students the possibilities to test again.
        
        Testing Irregularities
        
        Improper student access to the exam
        
        Inappropriate access to course information
        
        Discrepancies between course work and quizzes
    - - Sometimes the proctored examine given to verify the results not change it.
        
        Within 10% difference
        
        No change in mark.
        
        Within 25% difference
        
        Your mark may be averaged with your proctored exam mark
        
        More than 25% difference
        
        Your proctored exam mark may be your final mark
    - - What is plagiarism
        
        Is saying someone else's work is your own
        
        If you take words from somewhere else into your document
        
        If you slightly reword something someone else wrote and put it in a report
        
        If you use phrases or quotes from other people without putting them in quotes and citing them
      - How to avoid plagiarism
        
        Do not copy and paste
        
        Jot down notes and create your own paragraphs
        
        Cite your sources
      - What is not plagiarism
        
        Using information that is public knowledge
  - - - Students submit outline of proposed changes
      - Outline shows an increased understanding of the expectations
      - Outline shows an incorporation of feedback notes
    - - Original assignment with teacher's edit
      - Teacher's feedback from the Moodle comment box
      - Outline of changes
      - New submission
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        EBUS username
        
        EBUS password
        
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  - - - Click on Add Submission Button
    - - Drag and drop the file
      - Or click on the document symbol
        
        Step #3
        
        Select the file you want
        
        Step #4
        
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        Step #5
        
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- - - - Narrative
        
        Tell a story from one person's POV
      - Argument
        
        Convinces someone of the truth or falsity of something
      - Description
        
        Describes in colourful detail something or someone
      - Exposition
        
        Gives facts about various topics
    - - Written with details that apply to the point
      - May use dialogue
      - Has a point that is usually stated in the beginning
      - Told chronologically
      - The focus of a narrative essay is the plot
    - - Recreates an experience through time
      - Can be based on your own experience or someone else's
      - It communicates a main idea or lesson learned
    - - Identify the experience you want to write about
        
        Think about why the experience is significant
        
        Draft you recollections of the experience
        
        Create an outline
      - Writing about the experience
        
        Using the outline describe you narrative
        
        Instead of telling what happened use vivid description to recreate it
        
        Remember the information you write is the only information your readers have
        
        Remember that the readers do not have all of the seemingly unimportant details that you do
      - Communicating the significance of the experience
        
        it is often effective to begin your narrative with the reason it is significant
        
        Another technique is to jump right into the essay and end it with the reason it is important
      - Revising your narrative essay
        
        After spending sometime away from your draft reread it to make sure it recreates the experiences
        
        Ask other people to read the essay and give their impressions
        
        Identify where more details and descriptions are needed
        
        Remove anything that distracts from the focus
        
        Think about whether you have presented the information in the most effective order
      - Potential prompts for the essay
        
        A childhood event
        
        Achieving a goal
        
        A failure
        
        A good or bad deed
        
        A change in your life
        
        A realization
  - - - Tip
        
        Use the second-person pronouns
      - Step #6
        
        Conclude your essay
        
        This is the last chance to establish your argument
      - Step #5
        
        Provide logical and smooth transition sentences between paragraphs
      - Step #4
        
        Distribute your facts in your body paragraph
        
        Group your facts according to commonalities
        
        Each paragraph should have a key idea
        
        Each idea should be supported by information
      - Step #3
        
        Write a clear and concise thesis statement in your expository essay's first or introductory paragraph
      - Step #2
        
        Gather facts and other information relevant to the topic
        
        Select facts and information from credible sources
      - Step #1
        
        Identify the main topic
        
        Select a narrow topic that still has a fair bit of information
    - - Provides an explanation of a certain viewpoint
      - Simplifies something difficult to understand
      - Do not offer your opinion and avoid using fact facts that are obviously biased
      - Use your research to support you thesis
        
        Your thesis is the main idea of your paper expressed in a single sentence
      - Make an outline
        
        Give your essay to a friend or family member
        
        Proofread your essay for mistakes
        
        The conclusion is the final paragraph and should summarize your main points
        
        Write the body of the essay
        
        Each paragraph must support the thesis
  - - - Laying the ground work
        
        Step #1
        
        Laying the groundwork
        
        Read the prompt carefully
        
        Look for keywords to tell you whether you are writing a persuasive or argumentative essay
        
        Argumentative essays need to be more formal, relying on facts
        
        Step #2
        
        Give yourself time
        
        Craft an argument you'll enjoy writing
        
        Step #3
        
        Examine the rhetorical situation
        
        A rhetorical has five elements
        
        Text, author, audience, setting, and the purpose of the communication
        
        Look at the facts, definition, quality, and policy
        
        Facts
        
        What happened
        
        How did this happen
        
        What can people do to change the situation
        
        Definition
        
        What is the nature of the problem
        
        What class would the problem fit into the best
        
        Quality
        
        Who is affectedly the problem
        
        How serious is the problem
        
        What might happen if it is not resolved
        
        Policy
        
        Should someone take action? Who should do something and what should they do?
        
        Step #4
        
        Consider your audience
        
        Choose you approach based on what will appeal to your audience
        
        Step #5
        
        Pick a topic that appeals to you
        
        Passion helps convince people so pick a topic that you feel strongly about
        
        Step #6
        
        Look for a topic that has a lot of depth or complexity
        
        Step #7
        
        Consider opposing points of view when thinking about your essay
        
        If it is hard to come up with arguments against your topic it may not be controversial enough
        
        If it is hard to refute the arguments against you you can choose a topic that is easier to defend
        
        Step #8
        
        Make sure you can stay balanced
        
        Choose a topic you are willing to thoroughly and fairly consider counterarguments
        
        Step #9
        
        Keep your focus manageable
        
        Choose a narrow topic so that you will be able to thoroughly explain your opinion and the evidence behind it
        
        Step #10
        
        Come up with a thesis statement
        
        Your thesis statement will reflect the organization of your essay
        
        The thesis statement is the overarching point
        
        You do not need to list every sub point you will make
        
        Step #11
        
        Brainstorm your evidence
        
        Find all evidence and counterarguments and save them in a way that is easily accessible
        
        Step #12
        
        Research if necessary
        
        Do your research before you begin writing the essay
      - Drafting your essay
        
        Step #1
        
        Outline your essay
        
        Use a hook and present your thesis statement
        
        Each body paragraph needs to focus on one main point
        
        Tie everything together
        
        Reiterate the most important evidence in the conclusion
        
        Step #2
        
        Come up with a hook
        
        A hook is something that grabs the readers attention
        
        Step #3
        
        Write an introduction
        
        Your introduction will contain the hook and thesis statement
        
        Step #4
        
        Structure your body paragraph
        
        Minimum 3 paragraphs
        
        Start with a clear topic sentence
        
        Make your evidence clear and precise
        
        Use facts as evidence
        
        Make your arguments feel like it is building
        
        Step #5
        
        Use the last sentence of each body paragraph to transition into the next paragraph
        
        Step #6
        
        Add a rebuttal or counterargument
        
        It will help your essay be stronger
        
        Step #7
        
        Write a conclusion at the very end of your essay
        
        End the essay with a probing thought
      - Writing persuasively
        
        Step #1
        
        Understand the conventions of a persuasive essay
        
        You have the freedom to appeal to emotion
        
        Use multiple types of evidence
        
        Hard evidence is appealing to readers
        
        Persuasive essay generally make your opinion clear
        
        Step #2
        
        Use a variety of persuasion techniques to hook your reader
        
        Cornerstones of rhetoric
        
        Pathos
        
        Emotion
        
        Ethos
        
        Credibility
        
        Logos
        
        Logic
        
        Repition
        
        Social validation
        
        Agitation of the problem
        
        Step #3
        
        Be authoritative and firm
        
        Step #4
        
        Challenge your reader
        
        Force the reader to reevaluate
        
        Step #5
        
        Acknowledge and refute arguments against your opinion
      - Polishing your essay
        
        Step #1
        
        Give yourself a day or two without looking at the essay
        
        Step #2
        
        Read through your draft
        
        Does the essay state it's position
        
        Supported by essay
        
        Do the paragraphs have unnecessary information
        
        Are the counterarguments presented properly
        
        Are they convincingly dismissed
        
        Are the arguments in a good order
        
        Does the conclusion convey the importance of the topic
        
        Step #3
        
        Revise where necessary
        
        Step #4
        
        Proofread carefully
    - - Essential steps for writing a persuasive essay
        
        Identify your main idea or point of view
        
        Identify your audience
        
        Consider the points that would best convince your audience
        
        identify the most significant opposing view
      - How to organize your persuasive essay
        
        Introduction
        
        Should hook your reader's attention
        
        Should end with a clear statement on your opinion
        
        Body Paragraph
        
        Should present the points that support your main idea
        
        Should focus on one point
        
        Provide examples for each point
        
        Opposing View
        
        After presenting your supporting points write one paragraph to explain and refute the most significant opposing view
        
        Conclusion
        
        Restate your main idea and supporting points
        
        Leave your audience more connected to your topic and more convinced by your main idea
  - - - Short Quotations
        
        Enclose the quotations within double quotation marks
        
        Included in the citation
        
        The Author
        
        Page Number
        
        Complete reference on the works cited page
        
        Punctuation
        
        After quotation marks
        
        Periods, commas, and semicolons
        
        Inside quotation marks
        
        Questions marks and exclamations marks.
      - Long quotations
        
        Omit quotation marks
        
        Start the quotation on a new line 1/2 inch from the left margin
      - Adding or omitting words in quotations
        
        Put brackets around the word or words you have added
        
        Use ... to show when you have omitted a word or words.