Instructions for Responses to Final Essays

Advanced Comp, O'Donnell, ETSU, Spring 2023

(Due Weds Apr 26 In Class)

last update: April 23, 2023

The best essays from this term will be posted at the course website by Monday evening, April 24.

Your assignment is to then pick 2 of them and write a response to each. For each of your responses, follow these guidelines:

1. Write at least 300 words.

2. Address the author of the work directly. Do not address me, the teacher.

3. Write it in the form of a memo -- to: from: date: subject:

4. Do not evaluate the essay. Instead, respond to the essay, honestly, as a reader. Tell the author why you're reading the essay. How did it make you feel? What did it make you think? What additional things do you have to say about the essay's topic?

Then print out 2 copies of each of your responses. On one of those copies, hand write the words "COPY 1, FOR [AUTHOR'S NAME]". On the other, hand write the words "COPY 2, FOR THE INSTRUCTOR".

Bring both copies to our final class meeting at on Wednesday, April 26.

Grading criteria: These 2 responses will count as check marks under the "Miscellaneous, ungraded short memos" category for the final grade breakdown. If you do a sufficient job, you will get a checkmark for each. "Sufficient" means the memo is complete, well-developed, and reasonably well-edited.