1066 - Best Essays

Best Essays & Presentations

2012 Winners

Arjun Pathak

[Presentation in pdf format] A Brief Overview of the Making of Modern English

Lorna Birrell

[Presentation in pdf format] Investigate the Ways Pronouns "Thou" and "You" Were Used in the Early Modern English

Rosa M V Ferreira

[Presentation in pdf format] British vs. American English

Steven Isaacson

[Presentation in pdf format] Evaluate Chaucer’s contribution to English literature and the effect of his work on the evolution of English

Laura García Castro

[Presentation in pdf format] What were the main standardizing forces that led to the emergence of Standard English?

Lynsey Mancini

[Presentation in pdf format] What was the relationship between English and Norman French following the Norman Conquest?

Ida Frisell

[Presentation in pdf format] What are the reasons for the dominance of West Saxon during the OE period?

2011 Winners

Daniel Henebury

[essay title] Give an overview of the main Middle English dialects

Fiona Hartley

[essay title] The Extent of Shakespeare's Influence on the Phraseology of English

Helen Jeffery

[essay title] The Essence of the Ink-Horn Controversy

Abigail Cox

[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

Emily Wonford

[PowerPoint presentation] Industrial Revolution and Linguistics

Josep Antoni Bravo i Súbies

[PowerPoint presentation] The Influence of Spanish on American English

Chris Tiney

[essay title] Some say that the impact of media technology on language will have consequences as far reaching as the invention of printing had on language 500 years ago. Do you think the parallel is justified? Explain your viewpoint

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