In Class Writing, Paul Muldoon

1. When reviewing for a test, one would go over notes, quizzes and the text or a primary source. If you are smart you underlined and wrote some summaries at the top of the page so you wouldn’t have to read each page or quickly review the whole book and miss important details. Gather important points and lessons learned in each chapter and then start trying to write your own questions. When looking back at the book during the essay your notes should be precise and to the main point.

2. The advantage with a long term essay is that it will be easier to include more than the obvious and get to deeper details. With an in class essay if you know all the material it is much harder to write all that down and then still answer the question with the point. It can get very chaotic and unorganized if writing something with a lot of supporting evidence. In the long term it is a lot easier to reorganize it later and get all of your thoughts on paper.