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Final
Exam: Best Work from This Semester!
last update: May 2, 2011
I. Final Exam Instructions (Final exam
period: Monday, May 2, 3:50-5:50pm)
1. Before the final exam period, choose three
of your classmates' essays that are posted here, and write a response to each
of those three.
2. Bring two copies of each of those
three responses--one copy for the author, and one copy for me--to the final
exam period. Please label each copy, by
hand-writing, at the top, either "copy 1: for the author," or
"copy 2: for the instructor."
For each
response, consider these guidelines:
1. Write at least 300 words.
2. Address the author of the essay
directly, using the second-person, personal pronoun. Do not evaluate the essay.
Instead, write about your own experience as a reader. Why did you choose to
respond to that particular essay? What did the essay make you think and
feel?
3. Include your ETSU email address on your
response.
During the
final exam period you will also write a short, in-class essay about your own
writing skills, and about what you learned this semester in class.
II.
Best Student Writing from This Semester
1 - 10
Things Everyone Should Do On Mackinac Island, by Hannah Ruff
2 - Bacterial
Meningitis: The Swift, Silent Killer, by Marie Hill
3 - BAM!
It hits you: A Twenty Year Old College
Student Reflects on a Cancer Diagnosis, by Dana Glenn
4 - Dead
Woman Walking: Megan Jean and the KFB and How They Saved the Coffeehouse,
by Travis Lakin
5 - The
Devil Came Down to Cumberland: The Ballad of John Wright, by Steve Robinson
6 - The
Dungeons and Dragons Meeting: A Guide for Taming Your Players, by Isolo
Aranel
7 - The
Elegance of Transcendence: Reviewing Radiohead’s OK Computer, by Bradley
Hartsell
8 - Finding
the American Dream: Escape from Vietnam, by Natalia Nguyen
9 - Great
Examples of a Few Contemporary Novels: Useful for Middle School Classrooms in
East Tennessee, by Kelsey Bailey
10 - The
Gustnado Strikes: Kicking off a Unique Summer, by Andrew Cox
11 - How
Democracy Stole Christmas: A revealing
glance at the founding fathers’ religious influences and how they will
eventually destroy Christianity, by Korey Look
12 - Internet Recipe Websites: Eating In like you’re eating out, by Connie
Messer
13 - Into
The Woods: Deer Hunting with My 5-Year Old Son in Southwest Virginia, by
Bryan Winegar
14 - James Blaine Greene: A brief history of the life of a
luthier and legend of Northeast Tennessee, by Emily Willis
15 - Making
the Most of the University of Tennessee Vols Football Experience, by Jordan
Edens
16 - One Man’s Dream, a Community Effort: The establishment
and continuation of Pond Mountain Volunteer Fire Department, by Jimmy Patrick
17 - Seven
Summer Days in the Outer Banks, Corolla, North Carolina, by Bridgette
Johnson
18 - Shod
or Not Shod, That is the Question: Is Barefoot Running Really Better than
Shoes? by Michael Deel
19 - A
Slice of the Good Life: A Trip to The Orange Peel Social Aid and Pleasure Club
in Asheville, by Raleigh Cody
20 - Surviving
the Century: The life and times of my
great grandfather Hartsel “Doc” Findley, by Tommy Oakley