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Podcast: Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Episode: Metacognitive Minutes: Acing the Unit 5 Essay Assignment in HIST 2111 on the War with Mexico, 1846
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Your Unit 5 Essay Assignment is explained in detail in the Assignment section of your GeorgiaVIEW course site. In fact it is a most excellentâand necessaryâdescription. But, to maximize your chances for an âAâ on this assignment, introduce a little âmetacognitionâ to your preparation for this assignment. Remember that metacognition is âthinking about thinking.â In this podcast episode, I want you to think about the structure of this assignment: What are you asked to do? What are the specific questionsâall the questionsâthat you need to answer? How many paragraphs must there be, and what should be the job of eac...