Below I have compiled examples of my academic work from my time as a college student between 2005 and 2016. These selected works include various types of writing assignments from different types of classes. All are unedited and presented here as I originally submitted them for credit. All of these works earned top marks. My goal in presenting these is to remind myself and others that writing is always a process of on-going improvement. Looking at these, I realize how very little writing instruction most classes provided. I learned most through never-ceasing practice, through lots of reading, through studying books like The Elements of Style and Style: Lessons in Grace and Clarity, and through grading student work/teaching my students about writing.
- Freshman English: “The Fastest Growing New Approach for Education” (January 2005) – this is the first assignment I submitted as a college student
- Freshman English: “Who is Responsible for Education?” (February 2005)
- Sophomore Political Science: “Highest Judicial Tribunal and Their Opinions” (March 2006)
- Sophomore Creative Writing: Poems (Fall 2006)
- Junior History Class: “Satisfying this Critic Requires More” (January 2007)
- Junior Great Books Class: “Dawdling Androgynous Roles on Magical Islands” (September 2007)
- Junior Advanced Composition: “Reinvented Classrooms: Rethinking Contemporary Pedagogy” (September 2007)
- Senior History Class: “Negotiating an Autonomous Remake: United States Cinema and History, 1945-1975” (October 2007)
- Senior History Class: “Reader Response” (February 2008)
- U.S. Film History Seminar: “Forcefully Internalizing The Black Doll: Imitation of Life & Brown v. Board“ (April 2008)
- Graduate U.S. History Readings Seminar: “What did the American Revolution do for its Women?” (December 2008)
- Graduate U.S. History Research Indp. Study: “Verisimilitudinous Film and Literature: An Examination of Gone with the Wind‘s Influence, 1936-present” (April 2009)
- Graduate European History Seminar: “Silencing Shakespeare’s Sisters: Science and Society” (May 2009)
- Graduate Professionalization Seminar: “Précis” (January 2010)
- Master of Arts Thesis: “Watchful Eyes: An Examination of the Struggle for African-Americans to Receive Admission and Equality at the University of Houston, 1927-1969” (May 2010)
- Graduate Education Class: “Article Review” (April 2011)
- Graduate U.S. History Readings Seminar: “History, Historians, and the Civil Rights Movement: A Historiographical Examination” (November 2011)
- Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation: “’If you do not like the past, change it’: The Reel Civil Rights Revolution, Historical Memory, and the Making of Utopian Pasts” (December 2016)
Dr. Andrew Joseph Pegoda 