What materials should I send to the English Department?

While you are assembling the materials listed above to send to the School of Graduate Studies, you also need to gather and send ten or more pages of your academic writing directly to  

Evelyn I. Funda
Associate Professor, American Lit. & American Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of English, Utah State University
3200 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-3200
435-797-3653

This material, which may include more than one sample, will be read by the faculty assessing your application to help them decide whether you are ready to write at the level expected for scholarly assignments in a graduate seminar. The samples you submit should therefore be chosen and presented with that purpose in mind. As far as possible, choose examples of your best academic writing relevant to the program to which you are applying. Preface each sample with a paragraph explaining the context in which it was written. We accept samples of creative writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction essays, etc.) in addition to--but not in place of--academic writing samples.