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Choose one topic from the two writing prompts below. Then write a timed essay (no more than an hour) in which you go through, as best you can, the stages of pre-writing, drafting, and brief revision. Be sure to employ an introductory and concluding technique and to position your thesis as the last sentence in your first paragraph. In the body of your essay, be sure to use an appropriate organizational strategy and to provide your readers with plenty of evidence to support your claims in each of your paragraphs. When you have finished, submit your work online to me through MyCompLab in this order: (1) complete draft of the essay formatted in MLA style and below it (2) your prewriting.
1. Make a short list of gifts people have presented to you over the years on special occasions like Christmas or your birthday. Reflect on two of these gifts that are particularly meaningful. Which of these gifts do you most value and why? What symbolic value do these gifts hold for the giver and the receiver? What does the gift represent? What cultural values would the object represent to a stranger who knows nothing about the history of the gift? If you could only pass on to someone else one of these two gifts, which one would choose and why? To whom would you give it? How would the symbolic value of the gift change, or would it?
Happy Birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, I didn’t know what to get you, so this will have to do.
This is a more realistic version of the classic birthday song, in all reality why don’t we just sing this every year? Why is shopping for a birthday, easter, or christmas present so difficult? In recent years I’ve received numerous gifts, some good, some bad, most of the time they weren’t exactly what I had asked for, or at other times they were what was delivered when nothing was asked for. It’s always interesting to see what the members if your family will get you un-prompted. But have you had the same feeling as I have when you open a gift and just for a split second think to yourself “Not even close.” Or the exact opposite reaction, “This is PERFECT”. Have you been that family member who’s gift didn’t fall on appericated hands?
In recent years I’ve received some gifts that I appericated; shoes, a subscription to a historical newspaper, a new cell phone. A stereo for the car I was driving at the time. A flask with a funnel for drinking on the go.
I’ve also received some gifts that I didn’t care for as much; hats on several occasions,

This is what I want; this is where you can find it; this is how much it costs. If only it were that simple.
“Pop quiz!” What kind of toy would your little sister like you to get her?
Happy birthday to you…Happy birthday to you… I didn’t know what to get you…So this will have to do.
It’s easter; you know what that means! The christians savior became a zombie! So it’s time to hide the eggs that we soaked in vinigar and food coloring, and bring on the chocolate


Pre write:
Recent presents…
Mp3 player
Shoes
Movies
Stereo
Books
Flask
Computer
New cell phone
Newpaper subscription
Shitty gifts gifts I didn’t appericate
Hats