They include a wide variety of genres ranging from poetry analysis essays of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and abstracts on epilepsy research projects to my own Shakespearean (or should I say, Santamarian) sonnets and elegant e-mails to a girlfriend. ... As you think about this assignment, you may want to ask yourself the following questions. ... Prompt: In this essay, you will need to explore where you are right now as a writer. ... And, finally, be sure to also include your goals or what you would like to learn from this course. ... I get a rush from the v...

• Word Count: 2564
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

If you're from the American south, you may feel that you share a unique bond with other southerners. ... For if you have worked in any serious way, you have your style "like the smoke from a fired cannon, like the ring in the water after the fish is pulled out or jumps back in" (75). ... When you marry a woman, you marry her dog. A woman will leave you if you don't love her dog. ... But be mean to her dog, one time, and you will talk to lawyers. ...

• Word Count: 4108
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In 1926, the New York Times published a review of "The Sun Also Rises", stating that Hemingway's writing was so compelling, so lasting in the American psyche that "No amount of analysis can convey the quality of "The Sun Also Rises." ... Here, there is a clear indication of Hemingway's style - a notably masculine style, described with words like 'hard' and 'athletic'. ... As explored in an essay by Zoe Trodd, Hemingway's propensity for brevity was developed out of a sense that war had 'used up his words'. ...

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate