Editing & Writing Portfolio
Selected Works & Publications
Editing
Graduate Area Exam
Field Note
This short editing sample comes from an undergraduate art history paper in which the author originally relied on incorrect information. The sample highlights how careful fact-checking, source verification, and line-level edits can clarify argument and context while preserving the author’s voice.
This essay compares Homer's The Odyssey, Virgil's The Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde to examine the causes of Troy's fall. It argues that while Fate, Fortune, and the gods shape the larger course of history, human choices ultimately determine how Troy's destruction unfolds and how its consequences are experienced.
This field note reflects on Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower and the ethical complexity of forgiveness. It explores how the book's structure encourages readers to question their initial assumptions, showing that forgiveness is shaped by individual perspective, and that some moral questions are meant to remain open rather than resolved.
Editing
Graduate Research Essay
Book Review
This editing sample of a scholarship essay for a Master’s program highlights how careful developmental feedback can improve clarity, organization, specificity, and persuasive effectiveness while preserving the author’s voice. The revisions strengthen the writer’s narrative, clarify academic and career goals, smooth transitions, and refine language to better support the overall argument.
This essay argues that Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde closely parallels Ovid's story of Procne and Philomela in ways that have been largely overlooked by scholars. By comparing the characters and their relationships, it shows how themes of manipulation, coercion, and violated autonomy connect the two works and offer a new interpretation of Chaucer's use of Ovidian influence.
This book review examines how N.J. Campbell's Found Audio blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction through its archival structure, transcripts, and layered narration. It argues that the novel's ambiguity is intentional, using uncertainty to challenge readers' expectations of storytelling and to make them question what they believe to be true.
Published in Porter House Review
Shared with the author's permission.
Shared with the author's permission.