Writing Samples
Four writing samples which demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the writing process taught at the UCI Undergraduate English program.
The UCI Undergraduate English program provides students the tools to research, synthesize, and innovate upon academic lenses of literary pieces, to produce articulate and unique introspective viewpoints.
Synthetization of Academic Lenses in a Research Paper
A research paper synthesizing multiple academic views of Lady Gregory’s play Cathleen Ni Houlihan to evaluate how authorial agency can transcend both literary movements and genre.
Disruption of Academic Lens via Marginalized Voices
An examination of Mary Prince’s The History of Mary Prince contrasting the similarities and differences between her slave narrative contemporaneous with the Romanticism movement.
Indoctrination to Academic Lens Part 2
A reading of William Wordsworth’s The Solitary Reaper using a contemporary academic view of the Romanticism movement.
Indoctrination to Academic Lens Part 1
A reading of William Wordsworth’s Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 using a contemporary academic view of the Romanticism movement.
