Directions to the Diagnostic Test for Lisa Ede's The Academic Writer
Follow this hyperlink to the website: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/academicwriter1e/default.asp?s=&n=&i=&v=&o=&ns=0&uid=0&rau=0.
Log
on using the bar on the left.
--for your first time, identify yourself as a student
--fill out the registration form using your CSU e-mail address
--enter a password you will remember
--put in my email as flowalsh@clayton.edu.
--when you're ready, click "Go."
This takes you to the "Student Resources" page which has links to excellent resources, but the one we will emphasize in the first part of the semester is "Exercise Central."
Click "Exercise Central,"
Click "Visit Exercise Central."
At the "Exercise Central 3.0" web page, click "Exercises."
Then click "Comprehensive Study Plan."
At the next screen, click "Take Diagnostic."
At the "Comprehensive Study Plan" screen, before you click to take the diagnostic, enter my email address in the yellow box: flowalsh@clayton.edu. Then click "Continue."
Read the box on the next page, and click "Continue."
The diagnostic test starts in the center of the page. Read the directions carefully so you know what you are looking for in each part if the test.
After you finish question 65, review your answers to see if there are any that you're unsure about. When you are satisfied that you have done the best you can on the test, click "Submit."
When you get back to the "Comprehensive Study Plan" screen, click "View Diagnostic Report."
At "Diagnostic Tests, " click "Diagnostic."
Set the date range from Jan. 1, 2009 to May 15, 2009. and press "Enter"
Scroll down to review your "Diagnostic Results."
Click your printer icon or use File/Print to get the two-page report that you need to hand in to me.
Be sure to write your name legibly at the top of the paper.
After you've printed, you can look at any of the "View Results" pages to review the questions and your responses.
When you are ready, go back to the top of the page and click "Log out"
Close down from the website when you are ready,
İFlo Walsh, 2009