This document provides a review for an Eng 4C exam, covering four main topics: 1. Learning literacy and the research process, including learning styles, goals reflection, and the four steps of research. 2. College-level writing, focusing on memos and short investigative reports. Examples are provided. 3. Non-fiction genres like biography, creative non-fiction, and news articles. Characteristics and examples of each are discussed. 4. An assignment analyzing an article about the power of drugs, including autobiographical examples and factual inaccuracies. Reflection questions relate to the article's point and missing scholarly elements.

1. Review for Eng 4C Exam
1. Learning Literacy
2. College Level Writing
3. Research Process
4. Non Fiction: Biography, Creative Non Fiction, News
1. Learning Literacy
Learning Styles: Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic
i) Write them down: then finish these statements “I thought I was” and “I know I am”
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences > intrapersonal, interpersonal, bodily - kinaesthetic,
logical – mathematical, linguistic, musical, spatial, naturalist
ii) What is Gardner’s work?
Learning Plan: Review what you set out to do this year as far as your goals, how you planned to meet
your goals, and reflect on whether or not you met your goals and what if
anything of a process nature you learned this semester.
iii) 3-4 sentence reflection
Content and Process: List as many things as you may have learned/ discovered on the Thinking Quad
provided. This could include but not be limited to skills (College writing),
ideas (Edit by read aloud), processes (Google Groups), attitudes (Figure it
out), knowledge (Non fiction).
iv) (Insert Thinking Quad)
2. College Level Writing

2. The Memo
Reflection: on the function a memo serves, what are the components of a memo, what
occurs within these components or sections of the memo.
Practice: Imagine you are a concerned, tax paying citizen, gainfully employed and a
responsible law abiding citizen in your community. You have discovered lately
that stores in your neighbourhood, including the one you work for, has begun refusing
the use of cash as a method of payment; and not just pennies or 50 and 100 dollar bills
– cash is simply not accepted. This possibility is not as far fetched as it once was given
the popularity of debit and credit cards. Your task is first to think of who you would
write a memo to, what your purpose is, what important information should be
contained in the memo in order to provide context, what argument(s) you will make
and finally what recommendations you would make. Please review the exemplars
provided in order to better understand and apply the proper format.
The Short Investigative Report
Reflection: on the function a memo serves, what are the components of a memo, what
occurs within these components or sections of the memo.
Practice: Create a short investigative report on a subject/topic of your choosing. Be sure to
review the exemplars provided in order to better understand and apply the
proper format.
*NOTE* Those students who have yet to submit a short investigative report this semester
should indicate that they want this memo or short report evaluated and a mark recorded.

3. 3. Research Process
Four step Approach
Students should complete this section of the review on their own time at home or in a location
where they have access to a computer and the internet. Under the FILES tab locate and open
the PowerPoint File entitled Research4C4U.PPT
1) What is the first stage of the research process
2) What is the second stage of the research process
3) What is the third stage of the research process
4) What is the fourth stage of the research process
5) What are some of the “actions”* you perform in the
1 stage:
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2 stage:
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3 stage:
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4 stage
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4. *In order to provide answers for each of the stages you should think of what it is you need
to do during each stage. Use active verbs like gather, assess, collaborate etc.
6) What two activities did you perform during this semester that would qualify as
Stage 4 activities.
7) Identify 3 characteristics of a “scholarly” or “appropriate for research” website
8) What “resources” other than the internet are available to a researcher?
9) Which of these “resources” is the most reliable and easy to access?
10) What things did you discover/learn about the Research Process this semester?
4. Non Fiction: Biography, Creative Non Fiction & News
1) What are some of the different forms “Non fiction” works take?
2) If fiction reveals subject matter invented in “the author’s mind” where does the
creative non fiction writer get his or her subject matter.
3) Why are essays, photos, dictionaries and blueprints examples of non fiction
texts?

5. 4) The internet is rife (filled with) articles written by average citizens; much of
what is written by these people is passed off as fact. Read the article entitled “The Power
of Drugs” and answer the following:
i) Provide two examples from the article where the author uses “autobiographical”
information to enhance his point of view.
ii) Provide an example of how this writer exaggerates or stretches the truth.
iii) Does this article have a unifying point or idea followed throughout? if it does not
explain how and why it does not.
iv) If this were a research essay or article what would you expect in the article that is
currently absent?
The power of Drugs
For years, I envisioned myself playing professional league sports. Baseball, basketball, boxing,
and football could have been my professional league participation. The skills and talents I utilized
while playing those sports, caused me to believe, I could have been called, “America’s Greatest
Athlete”.
Well, it is like this; at the age of 14, I began smoking marijuana. As days turned into weeks, and
weeks into months, and months into years, I was still using drugs. I used drugs for more than a
decade. I swore unto myself that I would never intake any other drug but marijuana. Marijuana
felt good; it gave me a quick fix, and never did I think it would bring harm into my life. But the
addiction from this drug caused me to experiment with one drug after another. Never in a million
years did I believe I would ever be convinced in using cocaine, heroin, dippers, pre-mo, volumes,

6. Tylenol 3’s & 4’s, codeine, syrup, hard liquor, beer, or any other chemical that works against my
living and vision. After using all those drugs, do you think my brain system is normal? Wow,
marijuana surely worked a clever trick on me. Actually, most of the problems my life faced were
because of drugs being in my presence and in my body.
One day, while I was getting high, death literarily became my experience. My heart stopped
beating for 11 minutes. Then, I went into a coma, and stayed in it for ten days. While in the
coma, my brain functions were being reconfigured. Doctors said, “If he ever comes out of the
coma, his brain would live as a vegetable”. More than 15 years has now passed, and my body is
still being rehabbed. Wow, what great power drugs have! After experiencing a horrible tragedy
such as this, it left me with only these words to say, “I Did Not Know drugs would cause damage
to my body, and destroy my athletic dreams both at the same time”.
In 2008, 167 murders were recorded. In 2007, in St. Louis, Mo., there were 138 murders; 2,761
robberies; 4,500 aggravated assaults; 33,901 property crime; 7,289 burglaries; 20,330 larceny
thefts; 6,282 vehicle thefts. Ninety percent of the crimes committed were by a bunch of drug
users. If you continue using drugs, one of the above-mentioned crime acts just might be your
experience. You just never know which crime you will find yourself experiencing. That’s scary! You
people keep looking over my story. Do not wait until a crime hits home.