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Throughout my website you'll find example papers for various classes, as well as helpful information with regard to developing a paper.  To facilitate the location of these papers and the classes for which they are prepared, I offer them here.

The essays listed and linked below offer students a variety of examples by which to learn the writing process; in addition, I trust that the material in these essays will be of benefit to students, whether sophomores in the Introduction to Western Literature classes, upper-level Shakespeare classes, or graduate seminars.

In some instances, you'll find extensive notes on the editing process, stylistic suggestions, or basic essay organization.  The papers range from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare, the modern British novel, to a poetry explication.

The Head/Heel Trope of the J Writer: "God's" Favorite Metaphor  (a sample
       essay with extensive editing notes, examples of the free-writing process,
       the form a paper should take, and writing topics--good for a basic  understanding of what
       an essay is, how to begin, how to organize, and how to revise)

The Oedipus and Tiresias Scene: "Everyman" and the Limits of Human
Knowledge

Suggested writing topics and a guide to form for an Introduction to Literature 1 paper

The Metaphor of Industrial Corruption in D. H. Lawrence's "Odor of Chrysanthemums"  (with extensive editing suggestions)

Suggested writing topics and a guide to form for an Introduction to Literature 2 paper

Hamlet's Dilemma With Women  (extensive editing suggestions: two papers, one
          acceptable and the other an  example of what  not to do)

Inarticulate Passion: Love's Dysfunction in Othello

Suggested writing topics and a guide to form for a Shakespeare Survey paper

Incest: a Metaphor for the Absence of God in the Revenger's Tale 

Suggested writing topics and a guide to form for a Renaissance Drama paper

Piggy: A Pathetic "Everyman" in William Golding's Lord of the Flies

Eugene O'Neill's Attic Spirit in Desire Under the Elms

The Negative Tone of Robert Graves' "Counting the Beats"  (an essay, with
            suggestions for explicating poetry)

Cultural Transmissions: The Exorcist, From Book to Film

Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula": The Concise Ending of Thematic Designs  (an essay that demonstrates a film review)

A Defining Description in Dickens's "Hard Times"  (an argument essay with extensive  notations)

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