Week 8: Review for the Midterm

1. Carefully review the exercises to the first seven chapters in the textbook.  Review the instructor's feedback on your submissions.  Check the correct answers from the keys to the exercises that have been sent to you (see the View Grades → Homework in the Blackboard Assessment and Evaluation Component of this course on the College Blackboard platform).

2. Reread the relevant part of a chapter if you still fail to understand a point or the answers to an exercise.

3. Reread the summaries to all the chapters.   Remember to use the Glossary of linguistic terms at the end of the textbook, pp. 573-598, and Index, pp. 599-620, for any term, item, or topic that you need to return to and review.  A useful addition is another Glossary of linguistic terms online.

4. Participate in the class review discussion and ask questions if you don't understand. 

5. Go to the Assessment and Evaluation Component on the College Blackboard platform, select "Midterm" from the menu on the left, and do the Practice Midterm.  Once you have finished and submitted it, you will be able to see your score in the View Grades (available from the Tools on Bb) and also your correct and incorrect answers.  Focus on the wrong answers and try to understand why they are wrong. 

6. Bring any problems and questions from your Practice Midterm results to the second class review.

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