American Students Set International Benchmark in Academic Expository Writing!

The Concord Review is the only journal in the world for the academic expository writing
of secondary students, and provides a benchmark for students in other countries to
try to reach. In this case, it is the performance mostly of United States secondary students that sets the world benchmark/standard which other countries can aspire to emulate...:

• JAMES OTIS, JR.'S, ATTACK ON WRITS OF ASSISTANCE: A TURNING POINT IN THE LIFE OF JOHN ADAMS AND THE BIRTH OF INDEPENDENCE IN AMERICA by Brandon Hopkins [PDF]
• THE GREAT DELUSION: CHAIM RUMKOWSKI'S ATTEMPT TO SAVE THE JEWS OF LODZ by Rachel E. Hines [PDF] - Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize 2003
• A VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCE?: WORLD WAR ONE AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE BRITISH LIBERAL PARTY by Shaina Wright [PDF] Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize 2006
• TO WHAT EXTENT WAS KEYNES'S GENERAL THEORY REVOLUTIONARY AND TO WHAT EXTENT WAS IT BASED ON PAST ECONOMIC THEORIES? by Aaron Einbond [PDF] One of the first two Emerson Prize winners in 1995, Mr. Einbond has now finished at Harvard in Physics, and is on a Marshall Scholarship at Oxford, beginning in the Fall of 2000.
• ANNE HUTCHINSON: A LIFE IN PRIVATE by Jessica Leight [PDF] Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize 2003 Rhodes Scholarship 2005
• BEYOND CHARLIE WILSON: THE SOVIET-AFGHAN WAR by Colin Rhys Hill [PDF]

Posted by Will Fitzhugh at January 5, 2009 7:11 AM
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