Essays and Research Papers on Creative Writing

A 3 page essay that offers advice to a student who is pursuing an MBA degree on what to include in a personal essay that addresses the student's decision to enter graduate school. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 3 page essay that is intended to guide a student in writing a personal essay on how a trip to London changed the student's worldview. No bibliography is provided.

A 3 page essay that offers a student a guide for writing a personal essay that explains the significance of the student's Hispanic heritage to the student's life, how the student contributes to his/her community and the way in which the student has coped with a recent academic challenge. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 4 page essay explaining concept of classification and using examples, including the subject of "movies" to demonstrate the concept. The writer also attempts to show that classification also has once basic inherent rule: that all items that belong in the subject grouping do not necessarily belong in the classification groups. For ...

A 3 page paper which discusses what meaning means, or can mean, to a person. No sources cited.

This 3 page paper explores the similarities between detective work and researching/writing. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 4 page paper that provides an overview of a character consumed by his own anger. The writer presents a characterization developed on a single personal trait presented in the first paragraph.

This 3 page paper examples third person limted point of view in the setting of a person's own dream. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

(4 pp) Today, we think of teaching writing as a process of "scaffolding'" or supporting children's language development in ways that broaden the writer's expressive possibilities, deepen his/her understanding of written language and text, and socialize the young writer into the role of literate adult. It is our responsibility and challenge to initiate ...

An 8 page paper which presents 4 tutorial journal entries that would focus on the strengthening of creative writing skills. No sources cited.

A 3 page paper which examines the reasons why so many people, including professional writers, find writing to be "hard work," discussing some of the challenging aspects of writing, considering personal writing experiences as well as those of other writers. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 5 page paper which discusses how creative writing is an important element in the education of young elementary school children. The paper focuses on first through third grade students. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 3 page essay that examines the writing style of John McPhee in his books Oranges and The Pine Barrens. In these texts, McPhee picks one topic that is as common as grass and one that is so esoteric that most people --outside of New Jersey--have never heard of it. He reports on both in ...

This 8 page paper offers an example of a creative writing paper utilizing dialect, theme, characterization and plot. Bibliography lists 0 sources.

This 3 page paper discusses two diametrically opposed papers describing the “Boston Massacre” of 1770.

A 7 page research paper/essay that discusses narrative writing technique by analyzing an excerpt from Jean Shepherd's A Christmas Story. The writer describes good narrative techniques and then applies them to the text of the Shepherd narrative. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 5 page paper demonstrates how to create a character profile based on John McPhee's preface to his work, The Headmaster. The paper gives clear and concise examples on building a three dimensional character. Quotes from text included. Bibliography lists 1 soruce.

This 3 page paper examples the historical and social events which were happening during June of 1976. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page paper providing three writing examples. The first is a rewrite of two paragraphs for better form; the second is an email requesting input for an upcoming decision of whether to implement a "Casual Friday" dress-down day. The third is a letter of recommendation for a programmer. No sources listed. ...

5 pages in length. Gives examples of six strategies of writing including the interest device, thesis, topic sentence, unity of paragraphs, transitions and conclusion. Also included in this analysis of Julius Caesar are the methods used in these techniques, such as illustration, classification, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, and process analysis and definition.

This 5 page paper provides samples of descriptive writing. Five separate photographs provided by a student are described. Two pictures feature Michael Jordan and three pictures are of wedding rings. No bibliography.

A 6 page paper which briefly, and simply, describes some of the processes to writing a story, or an essay. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 3 page paper argues that students need to punctuate and spell correctly; avoid passive voice; make certain they are using the correct words for the meaning they are trying to convey; learn how to research properly; plan their papers; and develop the habit of writing the paper all the way through before revising.

This 6 page paper discusses the research methods used and material found for preparing a speech; it also answers specific questions that require research. Bibliography lists 16 sources.

This 3 page paper addresses the subject of metaphor and how it is utilized in political writing. One article is evaluated and specific metaphors analyzed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.