Engl
3130 Advanced Composition, Fall 2018
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Final
Exam Instructions/ Best Essays from This Semester
last
update: December 6, 2018
I.
Final Exam Instructions
The
final exam is a take-home writing activity. Follow the instructions
below.
1. Instructions
a.
Choose three of your classmates' essays that will be posted
here by the evening of Weds December 5.
b.
Write a response to each of those three essays. Use the memo
format. Follow the guidelines, and consider the grading criteria,
below.
c.
Email each response to its author.
Copy me on the email -- odonnell@etsu.edu. Send the email
by Wednesday Dec 12 at 6pm.
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.
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
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
-
Donnie
Darko: A Film Review -- An Avid Movie Watchers View Point, by Quentin
Cooper
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The
Five Minute Visit: Blink and You'll Miss Her, by Caivus Khaine
-
I’ve
Waited a Long Time for This: A Review of a Marilyn Manson Concert (October
23, 2018 at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium), by Cheri Barnes
-
Jeff
Rosenstock’s POST- : A Sonic and Political Manifesto, by Alan Huskins
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Where
Did fun. Go? The Answer Lies in Nate Ruess’s Grand Romantic, by Madeline L. Neyenhaus