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Essays / Final Exam Instructions
last update: December 29, 2013
I. Final Exam Instructions (Final exam
period: Weds, December
11, 6-8pm.)
Final Exam, Part A. (out of class): Response to classmates' best
work.
1. Instructions
a. Before the final exam period, choose three
of your classmates' essays that are posted here.
b. Write a response to each of those three
essays. (See "2. Guidelines for Each Response," below.)
c. 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."
2. Guidelines for Each Response
a. Write at least 300 words.
b. 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?
c. Include your ETSU email address on your
response.
Final Exam,
Part B. (in class): Impromptu reflections on what you learned this semester.
1. Instructions
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. Please bring
your notebook to class. You will refer to entries in that notebook, in order to
write your in-class essay.
II. Grading
for Final Exam
Parts A and
B of the final exam will both be graded, separately, according to the usual
criteria for good writing: 1) focus; 2)
support and development; 3) organization, including paragraphing; 4) style/ voice/
readability; 5) editing and proofreading.
The two
grades will then be averaged to get a single grade, which is worth 10% of your
final grade.
III. Best
Student Writing from This Semester!!!!
1 - The
Chosen Ones: How Three People Changed My Life, by Amanda Wright
2
- Disney
Bases The Little Mermaid on a Short
Story: But Why Do They Leave Out the Most Important Concepts?, by Katie
Olson
3 - From
Mark Twain to J.K. Rowling: The Importance of Reading Banned Books, by
Keri-Ann Jenkins
4
- Give
us a Gender Neutral Pronoun, Yo!: The Need for and Creation of a Gender
Neutral, Singular, Third Person, Personal Pronoun, by Elizabeth Elrod
6 - [ One really excellent essay, no longer available at this site,
upon author's request. -- KOD 12/29/13 ], by Claire Jones
7 - Kyary
Pamyu Pamyu: More than a “Japanese Lady Gaga”--A Profile of Harajuku’s Official
“Kawaii Ambassador”, by Allie Lewis
8 - Maybe
I Never should’ve Been So Curious about Finding My Birthmother, by Kimberly
James
9 - Point
19: The Point of No Return--A story of how LSD rewrote my teenage years, by
D. Ganja (pseudonymn)
10 - Super
Glue to Cure What Ails Ya: My First Experience at a House Concert; Knoxville,
TN, 2007, by J. E. Duncan (pseudonymn)
11 - Walking
the Catacombs: Exploring Edinburgh's Underbelly--How One Skeptic Came to Believe in Ghosts, by Brooke Bowers