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3130 Advanced Composition, Fall 2017
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Final
Exam Instructions / Best Student Writing This Semester
last update: December 4, 2017
I. Final Exam Instructions
The final exam has two parts: Part A is an essay you will write, in class,
during the final exam period. Bring your notebook with all the entries you
wrote on the days when I returned essays with grades and comments, during the
semester. This impromptu writing will count as one of the "miscellaneous,
ungraded short memos and other writings" which are listed in the course
policies under "Final Grade Breakdown."
Part B is a take-home writing activity. Follow the instructions below.
1.
Instructions for Part B, the out-of-class portion of the final exam
a. Choose three of your classmates' essays will
be posted here by the evening of Weds Dec 6.
b. Write a
response to each of those three essays.
Use the memo format. Follow the
guidelines, and consider the grading criteria, below.
c. Print two copies of each response. Label the two copies separately, as
follows: "Copy 1, for [so-and-so --
author's name]," and "Copy 2, for Dr. O'Donnell,
instructor."
d. Bring
both hard copies of each response to class during the final exam period, which
is Wednesday Dec 13, at 10:30am.
2.
Guidelines for each response, for Part B of the final exam
a. Write at
least 300 words.
b. Address the author of the essay
directly, using the second-person, personal pronoun.
c. 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. Grading
Criteria for Part B of the final exam
I will grade each of your three responses according
to the usual criteria for good writing:
1) focus/ purpose; 2) support and development; 3) organization,
including paragraphing; 4) style/ voice/ readability; 5) editing and
proofreading.
I will average the three response grades together
to get a single grade, which is worth 5% of your final grade.
II. Best Essays
from This Semester
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Black
Greek-Lettered Organizations: How Schools Like ETSU Benefit from Their
Presences, by Jade Delahoussaye
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Cooking
Like Mamaw: A Guide to Cooking Biscuits and Gravy; Boston Roast with Brown Gravy;
and Blackberry Cobbler, by Kayla Welden
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Customers
from the Server’s Eyes: A Walk-Through Story from the Server’s Side of the
Table, by Jessica Dunker
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Extrabiblical Revelations: My Prophetess Grandmother’s Prosaic Misadventure, by
Kilian Thomas
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Is
It Too Late to Start Drinking? Dealing with My Parents’ Divorce, by A. N.
Barnes
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A
Merciless Deity? An Examination of the Old Testament Reveals a Different God
than Typically Depicted, by Luther Knox
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Retro
Goes Metro: A Track-by-Track Analysis of Villains by Queens of the Stone Age,
by Lauren Bennett
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Southern
Classic: A Guide to Cooking Cube Steak, Green Beans, and Mashed Potatoes,
by Chris Price