Sample Essay Assignments

First-Year Writing
Montclair State University

General Guidelines for Writing Assignments

ENWR100 Introduction to Writing
Ad Analysis Assignment (Isaacs)
Language & Identity, Language & Power (Isaacs)
Sample Portfolio Assignment (Isaacs)
 
ENWR105 College Writing I
Essay 1 Consumer Culture Critical Essay (Woods)
Essay 1 Mini-Essay on Music (Behlman)
Advertising Critical Analysis (Woods)
Gender and American Culture--Essay Three (Woods)
Open Topic Documented Essay (Isaacs)
Politics of Location: A Self Study.  Final Essay (Lewis)

Sample Portfolio Assignment (Isaacs) 
Sample Portfolio Assignment (Obadike)

ENWR106: College Writing II
Essay 1: Dramatic Monologue Analysis (Bender)
Blake Essay Assignment with documentation (Jim Nash)
Sample Open Topic Documented Essay Assignment with peer review sheet and hand-out on using quotes (Kim Bernhardt)
Ibsen's A Doll's House Documented Essay Assignment (Keohane)
Cocktail Party Final Paper (Lewis)
Excerpts from two institutions and two students' public responses to the question, Why study literature? For use with a unit exploring the purpose of a literature requirement. Students might also be asked to read the Montclair State "Proposal for College Writing II" document which makes various arguments for the value and need for literature. (Dowd).

Sample Portfolio Assignment (Isaacs)