Academic papers on English / Creative Writing & Example Essays

Descriptive Writing Sample
This 5 page paper provides samples of descriptive writing. Five separate photographs provided by a student are described. Two pictures feature Michael Jordan and three pictures are of wedding rings. No bibliography.
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Writing A Fairy Tale
This 5 page paper provides a tutorial on how to write an original fairy tale. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Letter to a Mental Patient
5 pages in length. This is a hypothetical letter to a cousin who is a patient in a mental institution. Taking examples from various texts including works by Harriet Jacob, Jane Austen, Kate Chopin and Charlotte Bronte, this letter is...
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A Letter to Louis XVI
This 15 page paper, as part of a role-playing exercise, pretends to address King Louis XVI prior to his ascent to the throne. The young prince is provided with advice in a letter on how to be a good king. The paper resembles Machiavelli's The...
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A Letter From Abraham Lincoln
This 8 page paper pretends to be an article from the late President Abraham Lincoln, but written in the present time. Assuming that Lincoln has miraculously come back to life in 2001, he writes for the front page of the New York Times primarily...
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Good Intentions Gone Bad
A 5 page paper which provides a narrative essay on a particular situation wherein family members expect more from their benefactor than they receive. No sources cited.
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A Moment Of Clarity
The secret to writing a personal narrative is to write as though you are speaking with a good friend. This 5 page essay provides a personal narrative as an example of how one might describe a moment that changes the life of an individual.
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Pros and Cons of High School Experiences
A 6 page paper which discusses personal experiences, good and bad, experienced by the writer. The paper illustrates that even the bad experiences were a learning experience and helped to develop character. No sources cited.
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Is Power the Ability to Get Things Done?
This 5 pager paper examines this question with reference to different social and political perspectives. The writer includes discussions regarding political power and its use or abuse, Marxism and communism, personal power and the power of the media...
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If Something Can Go Wrong, It Will
This 5 page paper is a humorous essay that gives an example of the popular saying "If something can go wrong, it will." This paper provides an extended example of this saying. No sources cited.
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Mercutio
A 5 page creative essay which examines Mercutio
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Expository Writing Assignment
5 pages. This assignment in expository writing is to help the student in creating an essay from a real life experience. The essay is based on how to deal with an attitude held in one's family that is opposed to what one knows and values. Writing an...
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Theories of Metaphor
This 9 page paper provides an overview of the concept of metaphor, including the controversy on the subject. The concept is defined and many aspects of the topic are included. Black and Debatin are two theorists discussed. Bibliography lists 20...
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A Fictitious Conversation Between Marx and Durkheim
This 9 page paper provides a fictitious conversation between sociologists Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim that supposedly takes place in 1879. The conversation includes three ordinary citizens who criticize the great theorists. The problem of social...
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The Detective Novel
This 8 page paper examines Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue as the first in the genre. It is compared to the 1970s work The Second Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders. The detective novel is examined in general, particularly as it respects protagonists....
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