1066 - Best Essays

Best Essays & Presentations

2010 Winners

Jonelle Bradley

[PowerPoint presentation] Evaluate the Impact of French and Latin on Middle English

Jessica Dixon

An overview of the main factors that shaped the diversity of American English

2009 Winners

Alice Pugh

[essay title] Explain the reasons for the emergence of prescriptive attitudes towards language and the quest for the best models of “King's English” in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

James Browning

[essay title] Investigate the Distinctive Features of Electronic Text Communication

Cordelia Reardon

[essay title] Evaluate the advice offered by the Plain English Campaign on how to write in “Plain English”

Alice Pugh

[PowerPoint presentation] The Ink-Horn Controversy

Cordelia Reardon

[PowerPoint presentation] The Extent of Shakespeare's Influence on the Phraseology of English

2008 Winners

Chris Harman

[essay title] Describe what new styles and possibilities have been introduced into the language by the Internet technology, including such of its domains as email, the Web, chat groups, on-line games, etc.

Khadija Paruk

[essay title] Explain the factors that helped English to reassert its status of a national language