Yale College Writing Center

Additional Model Papers

Enjoy these additional papers, most of which were collected in 2006 and 2007.

English 114/116

“The Curiosity of Humanity”
By Michael Rodriguez '10
English 114: Writing Seminars 1
Professor Suzanne Young

“The Corrective Lens of Satire”  
by Benjamin Solarz '09
English 114: Writing Seminars 1
Professor Alfred E. Guy Jr.

 

“The Watts Riots: Proving That Violence Can

Cause Social Change and Integration”
by David Talbot '09
English 114: Writing Seminars 1
Professor Andrew Ehrgood

Essays

“Rapha”

by Allison Battey '08

English 454: Nonfiction, Voice and Structure

Professor Fred Strebeigh

 

“Breaking Rock”

by Paul Gleason '06

ENGL 469: Adv. Non-Fiction: At Home in America

Professor Anne Fadiman

“Mid-winter Walk on the Beach” 

by Kathryn Mathis '07

ENGL 248: Nature Writ. in Britain & the Colonies

Professor Linda Peterson

 

“17 Genesis”

by Isaac Selya '08

English 450: Daily Themes

Professor Bill Deresiewicz

 

“La Barbieria”

by Edward Scheinman '07
ENGL 469, Adv. Non-Fiction:At Home in America
Professor Anne Fadiman

 

“Reindeer Bells”
by John Thornton '09
ENGL 120: Reading/Writing the Modern Essay
Professor William Broun

History

“The Samuel and Mary Attempted Piracy:

A Case Study of Piracy Law”

by Michael A. Gousgounis '06

History 416: Venice & The Mediterranean, 1400-1700

Professor Francesca Trivellato

 

“Lollard Bible Translation:

Language and Intellectual Privilege”                 
by Louisa Inskip '08       
History 406: Medieval Heresy and Inquisition 
Professor Brian Noell

Literature

“Harmony of the Flesh: The Primitivist

Poetry of Disgrace

by Samuel Ayres '09

Engl. 328: Fiction Without Borders

Professor Shameem Black

 

Narration and Restoration in Austen’s

  Mansfield Park

by Anastasia Eccles '07

ENGL 305: Austen, Bronte and 20th Cent. Women

Professor Katie Trumpener

"Creation, Destruction, and Stasis in Three Poems by Shelley”

by Noah Lawrence '09

English 249: Eng Lit & the French Revolution

Professor David Bromwich

“A-Foot and Under-Foot: Peripheries

and the Footnote”

by Catherine Reilly '08

Literature 142: World Literature

Professor Barry McCrea

"The Convergence of Identity and

Experience: Democracy in ‘Song of Myself’”

by Alexandra Schwartz '09

English 127: Intro American Literature

Professor Elizabeth Dillon

 

“The Collapse of Difference in Stoppard’sRosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

by Maria Spiegel '09

English 129: The European Literary Tradition

Professor Andrea Walkden

 

“Reason and Madness, Modernity andAntiquity in King Lear and Don Quijote

by Joshua Tan '09

Directed Studies: Literature

Professor Charles Hill

 

“Knocking Down the Puppet Show: Dangerous Readers in Cervantes’ Don Quixote
by Katy Waldman '10
Directed Studies: Literature
Professor Richard Maxwell

 “Heart and Soul”
by Meredith Williams '09
English 125: Major English Poets
Professor Leslie Brisman

“Love Overheard”  
by Tian Ying “Tina” Wu '08
English 125: Major English Poets
Professor Matthew Giancarlo

Natural Science

“Reconstructing Calamites: Building Giants

   from Fragments”

by Alena Gribskov '09

E&EB 171: Collections of the Peabody Museum

Professor Leo Buss

 

“Infants’ Use of Kind Information in Object

Individuation: Developmental Implications”

by Elizabeth Rawson '07

Psychology 140: Developmental Psychology

Professor Frank Keil

TF Deena Skolnick

“Federal Funding for Embryonic StemCell Research”

by Jurist Tan '09

Biomedical Engineering 090:

Stem Cells: Science & Politics

Professor Erin Lavik

Philosophy

“Feel Like a Natural Human: The Polis by Nature, and Human Nature in Aristotle’s The Politics

by Laura Zax '10

Political Science 114: Intro to Political Philosophy

Professor Steven Smith

TF Justin Zaremby

Photography/Film

“Ignoring the Call to Murder: The Evolution of Surrealist French Cinema”

by Christopher Adler '09

Film 240: World Cinema

Professor Dudley Andrew

 

“That Make the Strong Heart Weak” 

by Justin Jannise '09

Film 099/Literature 099: Film and the Arts

Professor Dudley Andrew

 

“The Photograph: A Personal Exploration”

by Hannah Shearer '09

Film 099/Literature 099: Film and the Arts

Professor Dudley Andrew