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By using a student text as a teaching tool in your classroom, you can help isolate and illustrate writing skills that students may not recognize in [potentially intimidating] writing intended for a professional or scholarly audience. Here are two methods of selecting student texts and the accompanying skills you wish to teach. Start with the [...]

Would you like to develop a writing resource based on a student text for your classroom?  Here’s a brief guide to get you started.  While each of these steps may not appear in every student writing guide or in this particular order, we’ve found it’s often useful to include the following: Introduce and define a [...]

A poem nominated by Prof. Grace Schulman. It was written for ENG 3950, the Harman Poetry Workshop, taught by Major Jackson. ________________________________________________________________ I woke in a hypnotic wrap, muttering assurances that I’m awake: An entity hauled to my awareness. So I slapped dry slobbered tinted cheeks, like my father did so many mornings ago with [...]

A researched paper written by an Honors MBA student. This paper won a 2009 Abraham J. Briloff Prize in Ethics, an award intended to stimulate scholarship in the field of ethics, with an emphasis on ethics in professional life. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Introduction: The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in Society The philanthropic community in the United States [...]

A short story written for ENG 2100. Nominated by Prof. Gilbert Adair: “Andreea’s [story] is based on a delightfully original premise and carried through with an impressive alertness to detail and repeated flashes of humor. Poe’s original text is nicely worked in at intervals, and there are multiple deftly crafted sentences. The ending delicately sounds [...]

A literary analysis essay written under the direction of Prof. Paula Berggren, this essay was awarded the first annual Berlfein Prize for Best Undergraduate Nonfiction Writing in Spring 2010. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The paradox of Shakespearean theater lies in its ability to communicate plausible emotion and generate compassion while using artificial language and adhering to theatrical conventions: [...]