Lens Essay Resources
Assignment Sequences
Lens Essay Handouts and Exercises
- UWS Lens Essay Handout (DOCX | PDF)
- Using a Lens: Buss (and other theory) as a Way to Support Your Claims
- Lens Exercise: Butler and Plath
- Lens Game
- UWS Exercise Book (pending)
Sample Lens Essays
- "A Living Document with Dead Ideals" (Sam Ackerman | UWS 8b: The American Dream)
- "The Relative Truth" (Sydney Carim | UWS 42b: Images of Africa)
- "Soldiers on the Street: How Insecurity Can Justify Authoritarianism" (Jacob Knauer | UWS 15b: Utopias/Dystopias)
- "Condemnation of Female Hunger" (Carina J. Luo | UWS 16a: Sex and Advertising)
- "What Is a Nation?" (Markia Neufville | UWS 41b: Huddled Masses: Immigrants in America)
- INDEX of sample papers in Write Now!