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  • A Conflict of Culture or Conscience: Re-reading the 2006 Election
    May 1, 2008

    Allon Brann
  • A Hostile Environment:The Pursuit of Oil in a Global Age
    May 1, 2005

    Brian Dawson
  • A Lesson in Inequity: An Examination of Racial and Gendered Disparity in Educational Discipline
    May 1, 2016

    Ben Swanson
  • An Examination of Chinese vs. Western Parenting Through Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
    May 1, 2013

    Yerin Pak
  • Anne Frank: Finding the Truth (and Lies) in Diary-Writing
    May 1, 2009

    Sheri Pan
  • Beyond “That’s Not Funny”: Reading Into How We Read a Prison Rape Joke
    May 1, 2015

    Nadia Khayrallah
  • Black Rhythm, White Power
    May 1, 2009

    Samantha Ainsley
  • Can the Pen Match the Sword?: A Look at the Value of Words in the Depiction of War
    May 1, 2009

    Julia Halperin
  • Cinematic Journalism: The New Look of Reality
    May 1, 2005

    Illyan Kaplan-Seem
  • Daughters of the Wild: The Feral and Human Perspective
    May 1, 2009

    Jun-Hao Rosalyn Shih
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Reaching Beyond the University: Writing the Op-Ed

By Glenn Michael Gordon

Students in University Writing (UW) put a lot of effort and passion into the four essays they write over the course of the semester. They read sophisticated essays and deeply consider the authors’ ideas, pound out a first essay draft full of ideas of their own, revise it several times, workshop it with their peers, and finally, turn in a polished piece. Throughout the process, they hone an argument about a topic that is important—and, not infrequently befuddling—not only to them, but to the larger world. So why should the audience of their final essays be limited to their instructors?

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