Student sample

Model introductions and body paragraphs for the Yeats and Updike comparison.

A sample essay on the Keats and Frost star poems that scores a 7.

A sample essay on the Keats and Frost star poems that scores a 9.

A filled-in plan for an explication of Larkin's "A Study of Reading Habits," with thesis, topic sentences, and details.

A student's explication of Donne's "The Flea," stanza by stanza.

A student model essay on the images of sickness, poison, incest, weeds, and birds.

A student model of the homework: a paraphrase and an analysis of Hamlet's first soliloquy.

A student model of the homework: a paraphrase and an analysis of Iago's opening speech to Roderigo.