Midterm

ENG 220 Midterm: Rogers-Cooper

Closed text, closed-note.

Directions: Explain what the writer meant in each of the following quotations by 1) explaining what they mean, 2) contextualizing them within the article they came from, and 3) linking them to the discussion and practices of our class. Each question is worth 20 total points. Each part of the answer (1-3) is worth roughly the following 7, 7, and 6 points. More points will be awarded for more detailed answers. 

1.     “Writers consistently return to their own notion of the topic throughout the process of writing.” –Perl

2.     “The five students who experienced blocking were all operating either with writing rules or with planning strategies that impeded rather than enhanced the composing process.” –Rose

3.     “Most often we operate with the aid of fairly general heuristics or “rules of thumb,” guidelines that allow varying degrees of flexibility when approaching problems. –Rose

4.     “Writers need to know certain grammatical rules and evaluative criteria, but they also need to know how to call up a sense of their reader’s needs and expectations.” -- Perl

5.      “Writing reflects inner mental structures” –Moffett