Richard Patient
The Student Experience
The Student Voice - Student essay competition 2009
The English Subject Centre’s student essay competition now in its 4th year, was a great success with more than thirty entries, a new Subject Centre record! You can read the winning entries below. This year's topic really enlivened students:
"Why should UK taxpayers support you for three years to read novels, write poems or play with words"
The winner was Richard Patient from the University of Southampton.
The competition is an annual Higher Education Academy event in which all Subject Centres participate. The winner of the English Subject Centre competition goes forward to a national competition involving students from all disciplines.
Winning Entry
Richard Patient - University of Southampton (57kb)
Patrick Gillett
"I love people, fictional people admittedly, and that’s what I love about English. You get to find out whether the human race has changed very much and, when you read Chaucer, or Pepys, or Kazuo Ishiguro...”
Runner up
Patrick Gillett - University of Cumbria - (107kb)
"...the true worth of what I have studied these past three years will be apparent in my classroom and to all of my pupils. "
Ashley Lister
Runner up
Ashley Lister - Blackpool & Fylde College (36kb)
"This question could have been written by my mother. It probably was. To hear her speak you’d think she was the only person in the UK paying taxes."
Last Year's Entries
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