A. Take Home
Choose three of your classmates' essays posted on this page, and write
a response to each. Bring two copies of each response to the
final exam period--one copy for the author, and one copy for me.
In writing your responses, consider the following guidelines:
1. Each response should be one to two typed
pages (250-500 words).
2. Make each response "reader-based."
That is, don't evaluate the essay. The time for critique is over.
Instead, write about your own response: Why did you choose to respond
to that particular essay? What did the essay make you think and feel?
What do you have to say to the author?
3. Use personal pronouns, "I" and "you."
Address your responses to the authors of the essays, not to me, the teacher.
4. I'll be looking for responses that are
thoughtful, vigorous, and well-written.
B. In-class
During the final exam period, you will write in class, in response
to a prompt about your writing process and/ or about the work you've done
this semester. This in-class writing writing will take you about
1 hour. The purpose of the impromptu writing is to show me that you
can write reasonably well-developed, organized, and edited prose, on the
spot.
II. Student Writing
Read and enjoy the best work from this semester!
- A
Camper’s Guide to Roan Mountain State Park: Helpful Information for Campground
Guests, by A.K.
- Creativity
and the College Composition; or, How a Talking Garbage Can Changed My Life,
by Tracy Mantell
- Decadent
Disordering of the Senses: The Eccentric Life and Times of Arthur Rimbaud,
by Audrea Evans
- Following
the Prophet: A Comparison of Sunni and Shiite Muslims, by Bethany Mason
- A
Graduate Student who has Never Taught Writing Arrogantly Instructs Others
on How to Teach Writing, by Paul Ludwig
- Let’s
Go Drink Till We Can’t Feel Feelings Anymore!: Drinking, the College Student
Escape, by AKK
- Move
toward Your Academic Dream: How to Apply for a Doctoral Program in Accounting,
By Yu Tian
- On
The Abstraction of Love: A Review of Zadie Smith’s On Beauty,
by Nina Williamson
- Rock
It, Man: Confession of a Music Pirate, by Betsy Allen
- Superheroes,
Siblings, and Sharp Writers: How Comics Inspired my Philosophy of Teaching,
by Anthony Newman
- Your
Next Camera Purchase: The Nikon Coolpix 5700, by Lindsay Tipton