{"id":1635,"date":"2020-11-10T17:35:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T17:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/?page_id=1635"},"modified":"2021-11-29T18:32:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T18:32:45","slug":"english-sample-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/?page_id=1635","title":{"rendered":"Literature – Sample Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SUPPORTING AN ARGUMENT<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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LITERARY ANALYSIS<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Revising<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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CONSTRUCTING AN ARGUMENT<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Sample Papers Provided by Writing Tutors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sample paper for an introductory English class<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Aeneid:<\/em>\u00a0A History that Hangs in the Balance of Time\u201d (PDF, new tab)<\/a>\u00a0is a paper I wrote for Professor R. Thomas Simone\u2019s English 027, a course offered in the Integrated Humanities Program (IHP) at UVM. English 027 is a fall course in which students read texts such as\u00a0The Odyssey<\/em>,\u00a0The Aeneid<\/em>,\u00a0The Oresteia<\/em>, and\u00a0Inferno<\/em>. This paper is an English paper on\u00a0The Aeneid<\/em>, and the prompt for it was to simply describe how one can understand\u00a0The Aeneid<\/em>\u00a0as an historical epic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a very traditional English paper in that it is thesis-based and has a clear introduction, body, and conclusion. Moreover, it discusses a text from Antiquity, so it deals with classic themes such as history, time, Greco-Roman culture, and the genre of the epic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: Significant portions of the essay have been omitted in an effort to prevent plagiarism. Moreover, many of the in-text parenthetical citations read as \u201cXXX\u201d for the same reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sample Paper for an upper level class on the works of James Joyce<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeneficiary, thy Name is Woman\u201d (PDF, new tab)<\/a>\u00a0is a paper I wrote for Thomas Simone\u2019s class on the works of James Joyce. In this assignment, we were to analyze (in 8-10 pages) Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Ulysses<\/em>\u00a0in a way that incorporated critical texts and outside sources, as well as themes we covered in class discussions. I chose to write about\u00a0Ulysses<\/em>\u00a0as a debatably feminist text, and how that is affected by the significant influence of Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0Hamlet<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This paper includes many typical elements of a longer assignment on English literature, as it works closely with the text of two books and involves the use of credible scholarly work. In my annotations to this sample paper, I paid special attention to how to effectively make use of primary texts (in this case, Hamlet<\/em> and Ulysses<\/em>) and secondary texts (the existing scholarly work that studies the primary texts) in a paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: To prevent plagiarism, significant parts of this essay have been deleted. The removal of my own work was marked with ellipses, and quotations from the referenced texts were replaced with \u201cXXX.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sample Paper using the theoretical lens of intersectionality to explore code switching in Junot Diaz\u2019s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This is a research paper I wrote for my ENGS 281 course on the \u201cGlobal Anglophone Novel.\u201d The assignment asked me to explore a class text more closely by either researching its relevant socio-historical contexts, developing a close reading using a theoretical paradigm, or making a comparative argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I chose to write a paper on Junot Diaz\u2019s “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” (PDF, new tab)<\/a> . I was fascinated by the narrator\u2019s seamless exchanges between English and Spanish. This technique is called code switching. When I began researching the implications of code switching, I realized how language is an important (although less obvious) aspect of identity. From there, I decided to use an intersectional lens to discuss not only the historical context of the novel, but also how this history impacts identity and language use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: Parts of this essay have been deleted or shortened to avoid plagiarism. Ellipses and \u201cXXX\u201d indicate removed ideas and quotes respectively. \u2013Olivia Langley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sample Papers Provided by Writing Tutors Sample paper for an introductory English class \u201cThe Aeneid:\u00a0A History that Hangs in the Balance of Time\u201d (PDF, new tab)\u00a0is a paper I wrote for Professor R. Thomas Simone\u2019s English 027, a course offered in the Integrated Humanities Program (IHP) at UVM. English 027 is a fall course in … Continue reading Literature – Sample Papers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6113,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1635\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/tutortips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}