1. Write as much as you can in the 50 minutes of class time.   
2. Your essay must have an introduction and a conclusion.  A short paragraph (two to three of sentences) for each is sufficient.
3. Write clearly and keep your focus on the topic and the points you are asked to discuss.  
4. Don't try to write the essay ahead of time.  Just sketch out a one page outline - you can bring it to class and refer to it.  The key is to give yourself space to write freely and quickly.
5. Grammar, spelling, and punctuation do count.  Clarity comes from proper use of the language.
6. Write as neatly as you can, but don't sacrifice time trying to be neat and tidy.  If you make an error, just cross it out and go on.

Essay study topics:

B. Discuss how technology and capitalism merged to move society from technocracy to “technopoly,” and give as several examples.

C. Postman writes: “American Technopoly has ... embraced the computer in the same hurried and mindless way it embraced medical technology.”  Evaluate this statement in light of the “judgment of Thamus.”

D. Postman writes toward the end of his book that the world collapse of theologies and ideologies left a void into which “comes the Technopoly story, with its emphasis on progress without limits, rights without responsibilities, and technology without cost.”  Evaluate this statement and give several examples.