Brendan Montgomery
Writer
Professional Writing: English 229
Academic Writing: Political Science 386
Literary & Film Analysis: English 230
Memo
This is a sample memo I wrote to one of my classmates to provide feedback on their first assignment.
Cover Letter
This is a cover letter I wrote to ZS Associates as practice. I made a couple of stylistic choices to make it look slightly different than a standard cover letter.
Press Release
Here is a fake press release I wrote to practice expressing and representing the voice of a company or an organization as a whole.
Essay #1
This piece of writing is an essay that discusses the modernity of baseball, despite the fact that it is seemingly the most pre-modern sport that is played today.
Essay #2
This essay is a comparative analysis piece on the modernity of football and baseball throughout their respective histories.
Essay #3
This final piece is an essay that attempts to tackle the reasons why soccer has not had the same popularity of the "big 4" sports in North America.
Close Reading
This is a close reading of a passage from the short fiction story by Tom Perrotta titled Nine Inches.
Comparative Analysis
This piece of writing is a comparative analysis of Tom Perotta's Election and David Schickler's The Smoker.
Final Project
For my final writing assignment in this class I wrote an analysis of how teachers are generally portrayed in books and in television, with an exception coming from Vince Gilligan's TV Show "Breaking Bad."