You may notice that some of these papers don’t seem to follow the instructions I’ve given you for your papers perfectly. Chances are the assignment has evolved since these students wrote their papers. While you may easily find weaknesses in these papers, I have chosen to include them because they also have strengths from which you can learn. If you don’t like a paper, your goal should be to do an even better job than these students have done.
| Persuasive Student Papers |
Alcohol and Pregnancy Don't Mix by Shannon Snow
How Love and Self Esteem Can Prevent Substance Abuse By Rebecca Prestwich
The Joy of Reading By Jennifer Wilks
Preschool By Melissa Nielson
Learning Another Language By Yipei Zhou
Take a Chance, Live a Little By Russel Bezzant
Dressed for Success By Jaime Pickering
Eating Healthy By Stacy Hamilton
Black vs. White By Nic Jones
Is Breast Milk Best for your Baby? By Meleesa Watts (scanned in and not re-edited well)
Do You Know What You’re Drinking? By Anthony Escobar (scanned in and not re-edited well)
The Effects of Sexual Child Abuse On Female Victims By Michelle Bennet
Eat Your Meaties?
By Lynnel Porter 
includes instructor's comments
The (New) American Dream By Kevin Stewart
Let Your Hands do the Talking By Lena Ess
Music By Marshall Aaron
Television Violence By Rob Nash
Divorce and its Effects on Children By Nathan Mayfield
Genetics as the Cure By Jeff Bonner
The Effects of Television Violence on Children By Guiseppa King
Parents Fighting Pornography By Alison Whittaker
Tv By Ammon Pate (sorry, lost this one)
Legalized Slavery By Aaron K. Johnstun
The Vegetarian Alternative By Annonymous
Fasten Your Supplement--Right Now By Makinzee Price
Are Working Mothers Working? By Annonymous
| Research Student Papers |
Seaweed and its Valuable Use By Colby Brink (for English 121: research writing)
| Multi-Genre Student Papers |
How Love and Self-Esteem Can Prevent Substance Abuse By Rebecca Prestwich
Preschool By Melissa Nielson
Take a Chance, Live a Little By Russel Bezzant
Dance to Success By Yipei Zhou
Teen Sex By Stacy Hamilton
Black vs. White By Nic Jones
Child Abuse By Annonymous
Looking Beyond the Mirror By Marcus Maxfield
Are working mothers working? Annonymous
Anti-Pornography By Alison Whittaker
Adoption By Jaime Pickering
Let Your Hands do the Talking by Lena Ess
James Madison: Insight of the Founding Father By AnneMarie Ford
Ode to Butt-Heads: Enlightenment for the Smoker By Aaron K. Johnstun
TV Violence By Rob Nash
Abuse By Jennifer E. Davis
Starting Over in China By Shaun Roundy (updated version)
The Self Portrait By Shaun Roundy (sort of a multi-genre with long entries)
| Essays |
I Have Wasted My Life (preview) by Shaun Roundy
A View from the Peak by Shaun Roundy
Life on the Silver Screen by Shaun Roundy
The World is my Onion: Stop and Smell the Cactus by Shaun Roundy
The World is my Onion: Destiny is Walking by Shaun Roundy
Along for the Ride by Shaun Roundy
Vertigo by Shaun Roundy
The COPE Freedom Award by Shaun Roundy
Starting Over in China by Shaun Roundy (updated version)
The Self Portrait by Shaun Roundy (sort of a multi-genre with long entries)
| Fiction |
Gone but not Forgotten (excerpts) by Shaun Roundy
The Spirit is Willing by Shaun Roundy
High on a Mountain Top (chapter 1) by Shaun Roundy