Examples of Prize-winning Reflective Essays
Below are links to research papers and reflective essays describing the research process from recent winners. These may serve as a guide and demonstrate the variety of topics and approaches; tips on the essay's contents are also available.
Papers from 2010
- Giving Up the Ghost: The Jacobean Elizabeth in The Revenger's Tragedy and Henry VIII, or All is True by Sophia Y. Gu; senior thesis; advisor Gordon Kipling
Research Paper| Reflective Essay (Adobe PDF Document) - Combating Hysteria: Blacklisting in Los Angeles, California by Madeline Yung; General Education Cluster M24; advisor Zuvi Gutfrend
Research Paper| Reflective Essay (Adobe PDF Document) - The History of the Malleus Maleficarum: A Bibliographical Study by Jesse R. Erickson; senior thesis; advisor Teofilo Ruiz
Research Paper| Reflective Essay (Adobe PDF Document)
Papers from 2009
- A Community of Shared Goods as Presented in the New Testament Book of Acts of the Apostles: Preindustrial Urban Reality by Edgar Hermosillo Gayton. History 199; advisor S. Scott Bartchy
Research Paper| Reflective Essay (Adobe PDF Document) - coming to writing too - The Algeria Syndrome, or 'Writing in Flight': Land, Language, and Self through the Autobiographical Lens of Hélène Cixous and Assia Djebar by Michaela Hulstyn; Comparative Literature 197; advisor Françoise Lionnet
Research Paper| Reflective Essay (Adobe PDF Document) - Undergraduate Student Work in Institutional Repositories: An Analysis and Policy Recommendation for the UC eScholarship Repository by Elisabeth Michaels; Information Studies 199; advisor Christine Borgman
Research Paper| Reflective Essay (Adobe PDF Document) - Living on a Prayer: An Oral History Project by Maria Abesa; Sociology 153; advisor Min Zhou
Research Paper| Reflective Essay (Adobe PDF Document)