Advanced Composition, Fall 2007,
O'Donnell
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Students' Essays
-- and final exam instructions!
last update: December 13, 2007
I. Final Exam Instructions
Your classmates' revised work will be posted at this web site, below, by the
afternoon of Tuesday, December 4. Before
the final exam period, choose three of your classmates' essays, and write a
response to each of the three. Bring two copies of each response to the final
exam period--one copy for the author, and one copy for me. For each response,
consider these guidelines:
1. Write at least 300 words.
2. Address the author of the essay. 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?
During the final exam period you will also write a short, in-class essay, in
response to a question about your writing skills.
Exam meeting time: Thurs Dec 13, 1:20-3:20pm.
II. Students' Essays
1 - The
American Dream: The Southside Chicago Origins of the Harlem Globetrotters,
by Chris M. Brown
2 - The Calls That Refs
Make Can Cost a Game, Season and Team, by Rachel Layer
3 - Cancun Mexico:
A Vacation to Remember with Nine of My Closest Friends, by Julie Jarrett
4 - ETSU’s
Non-Traditional Students’ Guide to Family Fun: How to Enjoy What East Tennessee
Has to Offer Without Breaking the Bank, by Jamie Cyphers
5 - Greyhound Trek
through the South: How an Emergency Trip to Obtain a Passport Revealed
Diversity and Inequality in the South, by Christian Guinn
6 - The
Honeymoon Catastrophe Turns Beneficial: How My Husband David and I Spent Our
Honeymoon 45 Miles from Our Home (at the Doubletree Inn Hotel in Johnson City,
TN), by Sarah Clonce
7 - A
Lifetime of Stories: My great-grandpa’s
life as told to me by my grandpa and my great-grandpa, by Elizabeth Bowman
8 - Pixel Poets:
The Artistry of Video Games, by Joel Braddock
9 - Road to
Nowhere: The Legacy of CBGB and OMFUG, by Eric Hunt
10 - Surviving Your First
Night at Bonnaroo: One Young Couple’s Odyssey, by S. W.
11 - An Uprising:
How Handmade Bread Can End Capitalist Alienation, by Melissa Bright
12 - When a
Seemingly Easy Task Turns Out More Difficult Than Anticipated: Finding the
Right Christmas Tree for You and Your Family, by Charlotte Fleming
13 - Where Have
You Gone Charles Dickens? Commercialism and a lack of Sentiment is a Scrooge of
Our Christmas Spirit, by Thomas Widener